The minuet from the E Major String Quintet is as inseparable from the name Boccherini as the opening notes of the Symphony No. 5 are as inseparable from the name Beethoven. Boccherini’s famous quintet ...

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, ...

This week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Boccherini’s extensive output is now largely forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet ...

Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how his iconic "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid" was inspired by his time in Spain, ...

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 ...