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 ...

Luigi Boccherini dared to question what range the cello could play in his cello quintet, Op. 20, No. 4. It's pretty wild that this i written just before Boccherini. And people are experimenting with ...

Boccherini: Cello Sonatas; Fugues for Two Cellos Anner Bylsma, Kenneth Slowik, cellos; Bob van Asperen, fortepiano (Sony Vivarte). Here is another treasure from last year’s 250th anniversary of the ...

Boccherini for Two CellosCellists Anner Bylsma and Kenneth Slowik get together with fortepianist Bob van Asperen to play the closing movement from the Cello Sonata in B-flat, by Luigi Boccherini.

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 ...

From Feb. 12 to 14, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a programme featuring Luciano Berio’s reimagination of Luigi Boccherini’s “Ritirata notturna di Madrid,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Horn Concerto ...

This week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Boccherini’s extensive output is now largely forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet ...

Premieres Friday, April 18, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how his iconic "Night ...

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 ...

Luigi Boccherini wrote music that was fit for a king, even though it wasn't exactly fit for history. Boccherini composed for the royal family in Madrid, slightly removed from the classical mainstream.

Boccherini: Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra; Overture; Octet; Sinfonia Anner Bylsma, cello; Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor (Sony). The least agreeable performance on this splendid ...