The 'Dissonance' Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes it's nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old Tchaikovsky wrote his Quartet no.1, op.11, whose second movement, which moved Tolstoy to tears, was inspired by a folk tune that the composer heard a housepainter whistling. The musicians of the EsmÃ© Quartet chose these two pieces because they love their respective Andante cantabile movements. The four young women also decided to put the spotlight on one of their compatriots, the South Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who in 2016 wrote Yessori, 'sound of the past', for the Kronos Quartet. She explains: 'I first got used to playing the piano and the violin. So, later, when I encountered Korean traditional music, it's relative pitch relationships and fluid rhythmic cycles felt completely new.'

Tracklist:

String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K.465 'Dissonance Quartet'~I. Adagio - Allegro
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K.465 'Dissonance Quartet'~II. Andante Cantabile (F Major)
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K.465 'Dissonance Quartet'~III. Menuetto and Trio. Allegro
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K.465 'Dissonance Quartet'~IV. Allegro
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11~I. Moderato e Simplice
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11~II. Andante Cantabile
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11~III. Scherzo. Allegro non Tanto e con Fuoco
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11~IV. Finale. Allegro Giusto
Yessori (Sound From the Past)

UPC: 3760014199233
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 3.24.23
Format: CD

Lyuh / Esme Quartet - Yessori Sound From The Past (CD)