The Jasper String Quartet’s debut album The Kernis Project: Beethoven pairs Aaron Jay Kernis’ Pulitzer Prize winning Quartet No. 2 “musica instrumentalis” with Beethoven’s Op. 59 No. 3 “Razumovsky” Quartet. The first two movements of the Kernis quartet take inspiration from Baroque and Renaissance dance forms and the last movement is directly influenced by the joyous fugue of Beethoven quartet. The two pieces share a profound depth of expression and expansion of the possibilities of the quartet genre, making them a perfect pair for this project.