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 ...

Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how his iconic "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid" was inspired by his time in Spain, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, musicians have been gathering every summer in Marlboro, Vermont for the Marlboro Festival. From a recording made during the 1974 edition of the festival, we hear violinists ...

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, ...

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 ...

Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Haydn's, writes Eileen… Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to ...

(6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 5 in E, G275 Luigi Boccherini, Composer Vanbrugh Quartet Richard Lester, Cello String Quintet Luigi Boccherini, Composer Vanbrugh Quartet Richard Lester, Cello ...

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.