La Ritirata here opt for a set of six by Haydn’s younger contemporary, Luigi Boccherini. These date from 1781, so gone are the remnants of trio sonata texture and in comes a full vocabulary of ...

It is clear that La Real Cámara appreciate all this of Boccherini, and they are particularly good at expounding the conversational aspects of his chamber music that are so unique to his own style.

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 ...

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 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 ...

As soon as I saw that Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante were responsible for this album, I expected something special, and I was not disappointed. They were responsible for a superb version of Vivaldi’s ...

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