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. 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 ...

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 year marks the 275th anniversary of the birth of Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini. He isn't as well known as other composers like Mozart or Haydn — but some say he should be. Minuet ...

Guitar and string quartet was a favorite combination for Luigi Boccherini. Here's his minuet from the Guitar Quintet No. 6 in G major, played by Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ...

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 ...

String Quintets, Movements: No 1 in F minor, G348 Raphaël Feye, Cello Karski Quartet (6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 3 in C, G361 Raphaël Feye, Cello Karski Quartet String Quintets, Movements: No ...