Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), and the Cello Concerto in B flat major (G 482). The latter work was long known in the heavily altered ve...

CASALS plays Brahms, Dvorák and Boccherini (1929/37) - PASC246

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BRAHMS Double Concerto
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata No. 4
DVORAK Cello Concerto

Recorded Barcelona 1929 and Prague 1937
Total duration: 75:27

Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Blas Net, piano
Pablo Casals Orchestra, Alfred Cortot
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell

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NEW MUSIC QUARTET Mendelssohn and Boccherini (1954/5) - PACM069

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MENDELSSOHN StringQuartets Nos 2 & 5
BOCCHERINI Four String Quartets

Recorded 1954/55
Total duration: 1hr 53:12

The New Music Quartet

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PABLO CASALS - The Pristine Collection - PABX055

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BACH Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007–1012
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102; Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata No. 4 in A, G4
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor (1937 and 1960 recordings; the latter in stereo)
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D898
Shorter works by FAURÉ, GODARD, GRANADOS and SAINT-SAËNS

Studio and live recordings, 1926–1960
Total duration: 6:13:29

Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Alfred Cortot, piano and conductor of the Pablo Casals Orchestra
Blas Net, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Nicolai Mednikov, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Prades Festival Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, conducted by Alexander Schneider

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QUINTETTO CHIGIANO Boccherini: Piano Quintets 1 & 4 (1951/2) - PACM015

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BOCCHERINI Quintet No. 1 in A major for piano and strings
BOCCHERINI Quintet No. 4 in D minor for piano and strings

Recorded Decca West Hampstead Studios, 22 & 24 October, 1951 & 5 December 1952
Duration 33:26"

Quintetto Chigiano:
Sergio Lorenzi, piano
Riccardo Brengola, violin
Mario Benvenuti, violin
Giovanni Leone, viola
Lino Filippini, cello

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STOKOWSKI Acoustic, Volume 3 (1917-24) - PASC471

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RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
VARIOUS Symphonic movements and short pieces

Acoustic studio recordings, 1917-1924
Total duration: 79:41

Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra

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