Luigi Boccherini's Quintet No. 9 for Guitar and Strings is titled "La ritirata di Madrid" (The Retreat from Madrid) for its fourth movement effect that evokes the image of a military troop approaching ...

The two opening works of the Portland Chamber Music Festival on Thursday night at the University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center in Portland, could not have been in starker contrast. The first, ...

Spanish composer Enrique Granados wrote his set of 8 Poetic Waltzes for the piano, but they sound wonderful performed on the guitar, too. Now just add an orchestra. Czech conductor and arranger Peter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cellos seize the spotlight in the latest Pacific Serenades program, the finale of the chamber music series’ season. Sunday afternoon in Pasadena’s Neighborhood Church, the fare included Classical-era ...

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 ...