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 ...

Guitar and string quartet was a favorite combination for Luigi Boccherini. Here's his minuet from the Guitar Quintet No. 6 in G major, played by Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ...

Joseph Haydn: String quartets opp. 3/5 "Serenade" & 74/3 "Horseman". Luigi Boccherini: Guitar quintet no.4 in D "Fandango"; La musica noturna delle strade di Madrid. String quintet op. 30/6 in C, ...

Guitarist Manuel Barrueco joins the Cuarteto Casals in the Luigi Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D major, on February 13, 2017 at Caruth Auditorium, SMU. (Photo: Scott Cantrell) So far as anyone knows ...

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 ...

MENTION guitar quintets and the name Luigi Boccherini springs to mind — and not much else. Slava Grigoryan and the ASQ are putting that right. The 18th century Italian composer wrote several of them, ...

The turbulent environment of Spanish artist Francisco Goya takes center stage in a multi-media program featuring lively instrumental and vocal works by Francisco Courcelle, Fernando Sor, Vicente ...

Who knows Boccherini’s name today for any reason other than his celebrated Minuet, used in films and television possibly more than any other piece as a shorthand way of conveying 18th-century elegance ...

Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Haydn's, writes Eileen… Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to ...