From that same concert, conductor Janos Rolla leads the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in the Minuet, 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 ...

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 wrote 110 string quintets in the 18th century, and out of all that music, it was this little menuet that made him famous. I Musici de Montreal is in concert at the Library of Congress. I ...

Luigi Boccherini Titre: Quatuor et Quintettes Chez qui ? (harmonia mundi/h.m.-Musicora) Il reste beaucoup à faire pour qu’on n’entende pas seulement le célèbre Menuet: par exemple, ce qu’il y a autour ...

Les enfants partent à la découverte de la musique classique à travers les aventures de ses instruments, illustrées par les plus grandes oeuvres du répertoire.