In this episode, your host, Dr. John Sinclair, takes you through Giacomo Puccini's early life with a focus on his Messa di Gloria. The Bach Festival will be performing this wonderful work on April 26th and 27th at Knowles Memorial Chapel. For tickets and more information, make sure to check out bachfestivalflorida.org.

Alongside this work, the Bach Festival will also be performing a piano concerto by Dr. Daniel Croizer. You can listen to an interview we had with Dr. Crozier here.

The music you hear from the Messe di Gloria is performed by the José Carreras, tenor / Hermann Prey, baritone, the Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by Claudio Scimone. Excerpts from Puccini's Preludio sinfonico and Capriccio sinfonico are performed by the Orchestre national de l'opéra de Monte-Carlo under conductor Claudio Scimone.

More information on the recording can be found here.

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