Boccherini’s love for Madrid inspired him to write “Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid.” Scott Yoo tries his hand at playing this famously difficult piece. Boccherini had brough string music to ...

Luigi Boccherini dared to question what range the cello could play in his cello quintet, Op. 20, No. 4. It's pretty wild that this i written just before Boccherini. And people are experimenting with ...

Boccherini: Cello Sonatas; Fugues for Two Cellos Anner Bylsma, Kenneth Slowik, cellos; Bob van Asperen, fortepiano (Sony Vivarte). Here is another treasure from last year’s 250th anniversary of the ...

Born in the same town as Puccini, Luigi Boccherini’s future lay a very long way from Europe’s major musical centres, in the isolated Gredos Mountains in Central Spain. Martin Buzacott looks at some ...

(6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 4 in C, G310 Richard Lester, Cello Luigi Boccherini, Composer Vanbrugh Quartet String Quintets, Movements: No 2 in C, G349 Richard Lester, Cello Luigi Boccherini, ...

We're in concert with an orchestra called Europa Galante, and music by Boccherini and Gluck. It's a pair of encores from a concert in Germany. First, Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in a movement ...

This week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Boccherini’s extensive output is now largely forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet ...

Marc Destrubé and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century give a rousing account of six symphonies 'à Quatro' Luigi Boccherini composed for the exiled Don Luis de Borbon in Spain. Boccherini's patron, ...

Luigi Boccherini wrote music that was fit for a king, even though it wasn't exactly fit for history. Boccherini composed for the royal family in Madrid, slightly removed from the classical mainstream.