How much do you appreciate Boccherini's music?

Hi Lloydelee21,

Thank you for your suggestions. I will look into those recordings.

For guitar quintet, I do enjoy Melos Quartet's recording but also The Artaria Quartet with Richard Savino is wonderful too. Castanet performance in No.4 (G. 448) just so amazing. It makes the music like passionate Flamenco music. Not too many pieces of Boccherini's music show Spanish influences that obviously.

The other day when I typed in Boccherini to research some information in this forum only 4 related thread showed up. All of them are just remotely related to his music. That triggered me the interest to start this thread.

Hope we will have more participants to join.

Otto

Thank you for providing your suggestions.

Yes, some people of Boccherini's close circle died brought his very difficult time. His supporter and first wife died brought him serve challenge financially and emotionally. But yet some of his great compositions were finished in that period.

I just listen to two different versions of "The Night Music of the Streets of Madrid" last night. One in piano quintet (G418) and the other one in string quintet (G324). It was so intersting to play this two versions one after the other. The string quintet is more close to Boccherini's original intent but the arrangement of piano quintet make the "night march" so vivid and dramatic.

Unfortunately I don't have the one in guitar quintete (G453) to compare.

Happy Listening!

Otto