Don Carlo Fulfilled By FYE Verdi/ Puccini/ Quartetto David -

Verdi/ Puccini/ Quartetto David - String Quartet E minor / Crisantemi / 3 Fugues

Six memorable originals are performed by a dynamic 8-piece band including Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)

the score is entirely entrusted to the singing: the recitatives are short and the composer rarely makes use of declamatory or arioso parts

Mariss Janson's finished the recording of the 4th symphony in Munich's Herkulessaal

This was not music that was played on the radio

Don Carlo Fulfilled By FYE Verdi/ Puccini/ Quartetto David -Verdi was commissioned by the Paris Opera to write Don Carlo to a French libretto. The source material was a dramatic play by Schiller and the work premiered as a five act grand opera in March 1867 under the title Don Carlos. Set in the 16th century, it's subject is Carlo, the son of Spain's King Phillip II, and his love for Elizabetta, whom Philip later marries. The nature of the crises and conflicts Carlo faces, personal and political, drive the