Boccherini: Six Quartets

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The performances, on period instruments are as pleasing as you could wish for, with Arthur Schoonderwoerd playing a copy of a Stein piano whose delicate tones are exquisitely tintinnabulous even... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

Release Date: 5th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: GCD920312
Label: Glossa
Length: 70 minutes

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 1 in B flat major

Work length12:26

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Allegro moderato

Track length7:00

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II. Minuetto con moto

Track length5:26

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 2 in G minor

Work length10:31

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Larghetto

Track length5:45

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II. Minuetto

Track length4:46

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 3 in E flat major

Work length11:10

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Allegro vivace

Track length6:56

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II. Minuetto

Track length4:14

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 4 in A major

Work length11:50

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Larghetto

Track length6:09

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II. Minuetto con moto

Track length5:41

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 5 in F major

Work length12:59

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Allegretto

Track length7:49

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II. Minuetto: Allegro

Track length5:10

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Boccherini: 6 Quartets for Harpsichord, Violin, Viola and Cello, G. 259: No. 6 in F minor

Work length11:54

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Real Camara, La
Recorded: January 2011
Recording Venue: Auditori, Girona, Spain

I. Andante appassionato ma non lento

Track length6:36

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II. Minuetto

Track length5:18

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String player, director and scholar, Emilio Moreno is the ideal guide to the music of Luigi Boccherini. Joined by the talented Dutch keyboard player Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Moreno leads La Real Cámara, with regular partners violist Antonio Clares and cellist Mercedes Ruiz, in six piano quartets transcribed from Boccherini’s Op 26 two-movement quartettini of 1778.

Moreno also takes us back to the Age of Enlightenment, to the cultured court of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón, the brother of the Spanish king, in Arenas de San Pedro - a royal residence outside Madrid. where chamber music of all configurations was performed by the Font family quartet and Boccherini (a noted cellist himself), with technical assurance and artistry.

Here, fortepiano joins violin, viola and basse obligé, coming together in elegant, witty and graceful chamber music, in scores touched by those popular Spanish motifs cheerfully incorporated by Boccherini.

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Awards Issue 2012

The performances, on period instruments are as pleasing as you could wish for, with Arthur Schoonderwoerd playing a copy of a Stein piano whose delicate tones are exquisitely tintinnabulous even by fortepiano standards.

Boccherini: Six Quartets

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