(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 ...

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 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, ...

(6) String Quintets, Movements: No. 4 in C, G310 Richard Lester, Cello Luigi Boccherini, Composer Vanbrugh Quartet String Quintets, Movements: No 2 in C, G349 Richard Lester, Cello Luigi Boccherini, ...

In his two string quintets Mendelssohn followed Mozart's example in opting for a pair of violas rather than the two cellos that Schubert (and Boccherini before him) had favoured. The works were ...

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