This year marks the 275th anniversary of the birth of Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini. He isn't as well known as other composers like Mozart or Haydn — but some say he should be. Minuet ...

Born in the same town as Puccini, Luigi Boccherini’s future lay a very long way from Europe’s major musical centres, in the isolated Gredos Mountains in Central Spain. Martin Buzacott looks at some ...

Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Haydn's, writes Eileen… Composer Luigi Boccherini died in obscurity, but his work deserves to ...

Luigi Boccherini dared to question what range the cello could play in his cello quintet, Op. 20, No. 4. It's pretty wild that this i written just before Boccherini. And people are experimenting with ...

This week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Boccherini’s extensive output is now largely forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet ...

Spanish composer Enrique Granados wrote his set of 8 Poetic Waltzes for the piano, but they sound wonderful performed on the guitar, too. Now just add an orchestra. Czech conductor and arranger Peter ...

As soon as I saw that Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante were responsible for this album, I expected something special, and I was not disappointed. They were responsible for a superb version of Vivaldi’s ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composers.

This year marks the 275th anniversary of the birth of Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini, a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. DJ Sessions: Meet One Italian Composer Who Some Say Hasn't ...