PACM015:
Piano Quintets in A major & D minor, Op.57, Nos. 1 &
4 - Boccherini
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Quintetto
Chigiano
Originally released in 1954, issued as Decca LP LXT2841
(Duration
33'26")
Sergio
Lorenzi (piano)
Riccardo
Brengola (violin I)
Mario
Benvenuti (violin II)
Giovanni
Leone (viola)
Lino
Filippini (cello)
Play
sample movement:
Despite
his prolific output - nearly 500 works, including 102 string quartets
and 125 string quintets, the music of Luigi Boccherini (1743-1809)
has always stood somewhat in the shadow of his great contemporaries of
the classical era, sometimes rather unfairly regarded as falling somwhere
between the styles of J.C. Bach and Schubert.
However,
there is a distinct originality to be found in Boccherini's music. He
was a well-travelled and cultivated man, a well-toured cellist who spent
much of his life in Spain, before and after service as court chamber composer
to Frederick Wilhelm II of Prussia. However it was mostly during the later
part of his life, back in Spain as organist to the Kind, that the bulk
of his chamber music was composed.
By
this stage in his life he had established a friendship with Haydn, whose
music he greatly admired, and this seems to have deepened his musical
style. However, it is here, in these Piano Quintets, that we see possibly
the true fruits of his work, with perhaps the first effective synthesis
of piano and string quartet where each works more or less as an equal
partner, and the cello is freed from its traditional basso continuo
form of duplicating the keyboard's left hand.
Boccherini
left two sets of six piano quintets, of which these come from the latter,
written in 1799. Whilst they weren't to set the world on fire in the way
Schumann achieved some 43 years later they are certainly well worth knowing,
and in this recording by the Quintetto Chigiano, double-starred
in The Record Guide of 1956, they receive a superb world premiere
recording.
We
are grateful to Mr. Don Petter for the use of his original LP for this
transcription.
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out more:
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Quintet in A, Op.57 No.1 3rd movement: Andantino
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