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 ...

From Feb. 12 to 14, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a programme featuring Luciano Berio’s reimagination of Luigi Boccherini’s “Ritirata notturna di Madrid,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Horn Concerto ...

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 ...

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, ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 3 in D, G203 Quartetto Borciani Luigi Boccherini, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 4 in C, G204 Quartetto Borciani Luigi Boccherini, Composer (6) String ...

Our hour of Irish music and performers continues with James Galway. We hear him play the first movement from the Sonata, BWV 1030 by Bach. Philip Moll is the pianist. Then percussionist Adrian Spillet ...

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.