Boccherini: Complete Guitar Quintets

Luigi Boccherini (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Luigi Boccherini
• Audio CD (April 4, 2006)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Brilliant Classics
• ASIN: B000ENWI6C
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,517 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Quintet for guitar & strings in D minor, G. 445 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 416): Allegro moderato

2. Quintet for guitar & strings in D minor, G. 445 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 416): Cantabile

3. Quintet for guitar & strings in D minor, G. 445 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 416): Minuetto

4. Quintet for guitar & strings in D minor, G. 445 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 416): Allegro assai

5. Quintet for guitar & strings in B flat major, G. 447 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 414): Allegro moderato

6. Quintet for guitar & strings in B flat major, G. 447 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 414): Tempo di Minuetto

7. Quintet for guitar & strings in B flat major, G. 447 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 414): Adagio

8. Quintet for guitar & strings in B flat major, G. 447 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 414): Allegro

9. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major, G. 449 (arrangement of String Quartets G. 232, G. 237 & String Quintet, G. 411): Andantino p

10. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major, G. 449 (arrangement of String Quartets G. 232, G. 237 & String Quintet, G. 411): Minuetto (A

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Disc: 2

1. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major ('Fandango'), G. 448 (arrangement of String Quintets, G. 270 & 341): Pastorale

2. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major ('Fandango'), G. 448 (arrangement of String Quintets, G. 270 & 341): Allegro maestoso

3. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major ('Fandango'), G. 448 (arrangement of String Quintets, G. 270 & 341): Grave assai

4. Quintet for guitar & strings in D major ('Fandango'), G. 448 (arrangement of String Quintets, G. 270 & 341): Fandango

5. Quintet for guitar & strings in E major, G. 446 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 417): Maestoso assai

6. Quintet for guitar & strings in E major, G. 446 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 417): Adagio

7. Quintet for guitar & strings in E major, G. 446 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 417): Allegretto

8. Quintet for guitar & strings in E major, G. 446 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 417): Polacca. Tempo di Minuetto

9. Quintet for guitar & strings in C major ('La Ritirada di Madrid'), G. 453 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 409): Allegro maestoso as

10. Quintet for guitar & strings in C major ('La Ritirada di Madrid'), G. 453 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 409): Andantino

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simple Elegance, October 4, 2007

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Moldyoldie (Motown, USA) - See all my reviews

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Say what you will about Boccherini, but his confections make the most exquisite background music. Brilliant has released a whole series of very reasonably priced original recordings of Boccherini's music. While the performances here don't ooze the last drop of style a la Europa Galante (Boccherini: String Quintets; Minuet in A /Europa Galante * Biondi), they are nonetheless beautifully played and recorded using period instruments and exude a simple, easygoing elegance.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Complete? Well, not quite, October 2, 2008

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Eugene C. Braig IV "euge-o-rama" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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Nicely played and quality sound. Roselli is a competent guitarist with real panache for classical-era chamber music on period guitars. ...And Brilliant Classics has real panache for assembling quality performances of various "complete" musical sets in multi-CD sets. However, the quintet in E minor, G 451 (my personal favorite of the Boccherini guitar quintets) is very clearly omitted from this technically near-but-not-quite-complete set. Once more to be perfectly clear, Boccherini's E minor guitar quintet, the one often named no.7, is NOT included in this set in spite of its "complete" label.

For a complete modern recording, consider Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble on Philips Duo (Boccherini: Quintets For Guitar And Strings). For an actually complete (with the addition of an additional fine quintet by Mauro Giuliani) near-period-instrument recording (Savino uses a fine 6-string 19th-c. guitar where Boccherini almost certainly worked with a guitar in courses of paired strings--similar to the modern 12-string--in mind), consider the 3-CD series by Richard savino and the Artaria Quartet on Harmonia Mundi (Luigi Boccherini: Quintets I, II & III for String Quartet & Guitar - The Artaria Quartet / Richard Savino, Luigi Boccherini: Quintets IV, V & VI for String Quartet & Guitar - The Artaria Quartet / Richard Savino, and Luigi Boccherini: Quintets VII & VIII for String Quartet & Guitar / Mauro Giuliani: Gran Quintetto, Op. 65 - The Artaria Quartet / Richard Savino, also re-released on their budget line).

4.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIEUX !, September 18, 2011

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PVP "Markala" (Nice, France) - See all my reviews

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Célèbres partitions de Boccherini qu'il arrange à la fin de sa vie, vers 1800, à partir de son propre matériel (les quintets pour piano de l'opus 57) revisité à la demande de son Editeur Pleyel.

Le passage du piano à la guitare modifie évidemment la balance instrumentale de l'ensemble ; la guitare ayant traditionnellement, sauf pour les pièces qui lui sont spécifiquement dédiées, un rôle assigné à la basse continue.

Boccherini, compositeur très "galant", certainement plus préoccupé par la force de ses lignes mélodiques que par la nécessité de leur contrepoint, livre 7 quintettes aussi harmonieux les uns que les autres. Il aurait qualifié ces pièces de "grande" en raison de leurs 4 mouvements développant tout leur matériel thématique et notamment, comme dans le final du 4ème, celui inspiré du folklore espagnol, le célèbre "fandango".

Ce coffret n'est peut-être pas la meilleure version de ce répertoire (quoi que...) mais le guitariste Eros Roselli illumine l'ensemble par son jeu très fluide alors que La Magnifica Communita, en léger retrait, s'exprime avec grâce et poésie, dans un discours où chacun se laisse la parole, avec une grande courtoisie.

Son prix, économique, le place surement en pôle position d'une foule de productions.

Seule l'absence d'une parfaite transparence dans l'enregistrement me freine pour donner 5 étoiles à ce volume.