Composer: Luigi Boccherini
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor: Steven Isserlis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68444
Release: 2024
Size: 2.93 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Concerto No. 6 in D Major, G. 479
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro
Cello Sonata in C minor, G2
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Largo
06. III. Allegretto
String Quintet in D Minor, G. 280
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Andante sostenuto
09. III. Fuga. Allegro giusto
Cello Sonata in F major, G9
10. I. Andantino
11. II. Adagio assai
12. III. Tempo di minuetto amoroso
Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Major, G. 475 “The Frog”
13. I. Allegro
14. II. Adagio
15. III. Rondo. Allegro
String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 / 5, G. 275
16. III. Minuetto – Trio – Minuetto da capo
Boccherini’s cello concertos, some twelve in number, were written comparatively early in his career, all dating from the years during which he toured as a virtuoso.
And by the way: what a virtuoso! Presuming that he could play his own music, which I think is a fair presumption, he must have been a truly wonderful player; one can feel it in the writing, as challenging as anything composed for the cello before the twentieth century, at least. (The great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, an avid Boccheriniphile, considered Boccherini to have been, on the evidence of his music, the greatest cellist of all time.)