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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