Aeolus is bold at Strathmore, but quartet's members are still evolving

The Aeolus Quartet is a brash, interesting group with a rising professional profile (recordings on Naxos, prizes at several international competitions and performances in Europe and Asia) even as its members are still completing their conservatory studies. Thursday at the Strathmore Mansion, the quartet offered standards by Beethoven (Op. 18 No. 6) and Brahms (Op. 111), sandwiching them between two easy-listening modern pieces. This first impression was inconclusive.