G. Puccini - "Crisantemi" by I Fiamminghi

Studio recording in August 1991 by the strings of the Flemish Chamber Orchestra "I Fiamminghi" conducted by Rudolf Werthen.

Puccini composed 'Crisantemi' in a single night after Duke Amadeo of Aosta had died on 18 January 1890. Amadeo was the second son of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and for a short time King of Spain who saw every one of his attempts at reform corrupted and set back and therefore decided to abdicate. All this was in Puccini's mind at the news of the ex-king's death and he gave it musical shape in a elegy for string quartet. He chose the title 'Chrysanthemums', a symbol of power and glory, but also of grief and mortality in the culture of several countries.

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• Puccini
• Crisantemi
• Rudolf
• Werthen
• Fiamminghi

[PacRimJim]

It's amazing how master composers can probe deep within us, in places we can't reach by ourselves. Their music elicits powerful emotions that remind us that we live, and that composers long dead can remind us of their magical genius.

[NostalgicNorthland]

The opening reminded so much of Manon Lescaut.......always such deep and powerful music from Puccini....to think he wrote this in a single night, so beautiful.....drags all the emotion from me and leaves me a wreck.....I love him :)

[steeeeevve]

@steeeeevve ..and musically..

[sinoples]

@PacRimJim Because, dear Sir, music is our truly essence, of divine order, abiding in our very cells. If you are christian may you remember the Misteryt of the Holy Ghost, the 'Verb', in fact the Living Sound, the Shabd, in more evolved levels of devotion....

[Lottie854]

ohhhhhhhh.... at 2:37 it becomes so tragic. it makes me so sad.

[theeBLUECHICKLET]

beautiful video

[steeeeevve]

A morally excellent performance.

[steeeeevve]

Look at his face at 2.14..horrible!

[steeeeevve]

The pictures show Puccini as odious..yet the music is sublime!

[steeeeevve]

Arddunol Sublime

[deathmonki666]

@xXbertahluvsyaXx I didn't know beast was a verb...