Luigi Boccherini composed his 1771 String Quintet in E for his patron, Don Luis, the brother of the king of Spain at the time. Don Luis employed his own string quartet and, as a cellist himself, ...

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’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 ...

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London. The Nash Ensemble with Roderick Williams, baritone, perform Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians. One of the graceful quintets with two cellos by the Italian-born, ...

Cork has been the permanent base of a professional string quartet, courtesy of RTÉ, for half a century now. And, courtesy of West Cork Music, the celebration of the southern capital's term as European ...

Luigi Boccherini: Quintet for guitar & strings no. 4 in D major, G448 "Fandango"; Martin Derungs (*1943): Quintet for 13-string guitar & strings "Peme dhe Gure" (2007); Leo Brouwer (*1939): Quintet ...

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 ...

The Italian composer wrote more than 100 of them, and though they're invariably charming, the sight of one on a concert program doesn't necessarily set the pulse racing. On Friday evening at the ...

Who knows Boccherini’s name today for any reason other than his celebrated Minuet, used in films and television possibly more than any other piece as a shorthand way of conveying 18th-century elegance ...