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Luigi Boccherini

  • Boccherini String Trios, Op. 6 – classic performances

    Oct 18th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Brilliant Classics, Lubotsky Trio, Luigi Boccherini

    The name Lubotsky may ring a bell. Russian violinist Mark Lubotsky recorded Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto under the direction of the composer. While this release is not likely to become as legendary as that Decca recording, there’s still some fine music-making going on here. Mark Lubotsky, along with violinist Katarina Andreasson and cellist Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky […]

  • Boccherini Op. 5 – Robust Works for Pianoforte and Violin

    Oct 9th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, early music, Liana Mosca, Luigi Boccherini, Pierre Goy, Stradivarius

    This release has me a little conflicted. Luigi Boccherini published his Op. 5 pianoforte and violin sonatas in 1768. The works were dedicated to one of the premiere keyboard players of the day, Mme. Brillon de Jouy. She was a champion of the then-new pianoforte, and Boccherini’s sonatas were his first compositions for keyboard. My […]

  • Discovering the Classical String Trio

    Nov 30th, 2016 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Carlo Antonio Campioni, CD Review, Chamber music, Christian Cannabich, Classical, Classical music, Franz Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Johann Christian Bach, Luigi Boccherini, MSR Classics, The Vivaldi Project

    As the Vivaldi Project points out in the liner notes for this release, string trios from the classical era are woefully under-represented in the performing and recording repertoire. It’s not because instrumental grouping’s unusual — there were hundreds of string trios written between 1750 and 1827 (the approximate dates of the classical era). And, as […]

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