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Boccherini: String Quintets; Guitar Quintets

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in A minor, G. 300 (Op. 25/6); String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 298 (Op. 25/4); String Quintet for 2 viol...
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Ensemble: Europa Galante

Boccherini: Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet for Strings / Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante, et al

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C minor, G. 355 (Op. 45/1); String Sextet in F minor, G. 457 (Op. 23/4); Quartet for Strings in C minor, G. 214 (Op. 41/1); Trio (T...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Marcocchi, Stefano; Naddeo, Maurizio

"This could be the best disc of Boccherini's chamber music ever recorded. Whereas most ensembles seem to hold to the idea that Boccherini was a...continue...

Improvisata / Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2007-05-08

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia ("Improvvisata"), for strings & continuo, RV 802; Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphony for 2 horns, 2 violins, viola & bass in G minor, J-C 57; Carlo Monza: Sinfonia "La t...
Performers: Biondi, Fabio [Violin]
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Ensemble: Europa Galante

Bondi and his Europa Galante return to the late 18th-century Italian Sinfonia. Of these Sinfonie con titoli, the best known is Boccherini's Casa del Diavolo....continue...

Boccherini: String Quintets, etc / Biondi, Europa Galante

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2001-05-08

Works: Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in A minor, G. 300 (Op. 25/6); String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 298 (Op. 25/4); String Quintet for 2 viol...
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Ensemble: Europa Galante

"This new issue contains three of Boccherini's accomplished string quintets in performances which are warmly communicative. The music of Op. 25 is diversely entertaining at...continue...

The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 1999-03-30

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174); Cantata no 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 140 (BC...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Brymer, Jack [Clarinet]; Caballe, Montserrat; Collard, Jeanine; du Pre, Jacqueline; Ellis, Osian; Ferrier, Kathleen; Galway, James [Flute]; Gavrilov, Andrei; Helmis, Fritz; Ho...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Frémaux, Louis; Thompson, Bryden; Lombard, Alain; Kurtz, Efrem; Kaspszyk, Jacek; Karajan, Herbert von; Lysy, Alberto; Boult, Adrian; Rattle, Simon, Sir; ...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Lysy Gstaad; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra

Personnel: Jocelyn Pook (vocals, violin, viola, keyboards); Kathleen Ferrier, Melanie Pappenheim (vocals); Montserrat Caballé, Zofia Kilanowicz, Mady Mesplé (soprano); Jeannine Collard, Dani...continue...