 Before we get to one of the greatest of all American piano concertos later on, we have a work right now by Giuseppe Verdi. Now, he was in Naples for rehearsing a performance of Aida. The woman who was to sing Aida got sick, and so Verdi found himself with a little bit of time on his hands, and rather than just sitting around, he decided to write a string quartet. We're going to hear that right now, but performed by a full orchestra of strings, the Auvergne Orchestra, directed by Jean-Jacques Contoureau.