(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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

The Nash Ensemble plays all six of Mozart's string quintets here – the early B flat work K174, and the C minor quintet K406 that was a commercial arrangement of the wind serenade in the same key, form ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...