Strauss, Puccini & Verdi: Works for String Quartet
3/2/2015, 12 Tracks, 1:06:00
Featuring
Yura Lee
Ken Hamao
Melissa Reardon
Richard Belcher
Ensō String Quartet
Richard Strauss
Giacomo Puccini
Giuseppe Verdi
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Album & Artwork
The Ensō Quartet's name is derived from the Japanese Zen painting of the circle, which represents concepts like perfection, imperfection, and the endless circle of life.
Performer Biography
The Ensō String Quartet, founded at Yale University in 1999, has won top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild competition and the Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Composer Biography
Richard Strauss, a German composer and conductor, was the son of a distinguished horn-player and a member of a rich brewing family.
Composition History
Puccini's Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) was written in 1890 as an elegy for Amedeo of Savoy, the Duke of Aosta.
Composer Biography
Giuseppe Verdi, an Italian opera composer, held an increasingly dominant position in Italian opera from his first success in 1842 with Nabucco to his final opera Falstaff in 1893.
Composer Biography
Giacomo Puccini, an Italian composer, was inspired to pursue operatic ambitions after attending a performance of Verdi's opera Aida in Pisa in 1876.
Composition History
Verdi's String Quartet in E minor, his only significant purely instrumental work, was given a private performance in Naples in April 1873.
