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 ...

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, ...

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 ...