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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boccherini for Two CellosCellists Anner Bylsma and Kenneth Slowik get together with fortepianist Bob van Asperen to play the closing movement from the Cello Sonata in B-flat, by Luigi Boccherini.

Luigi Boccherini was Italian-born but served the Spanish court, and he evoked the street scenes of Madrid with a soundscape worthy of Charles Ives in the programmatic String Quintet in C. Many have ...

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 ...

(6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 5 in E, G275 Eckart Runge, Cello Luigi Boccherini, Composer Cuarteto Casals (6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 6 in C, 'La musica notturna delle strade di Ma4 ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 Luigi Boccherini, Composer Bruno Cocset, Cello Basses Réunies (Les) Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 7 Basses Réunies (Les) Bruno Cocset, Cello Luigi ...

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.