Boccherini: String Quintets, Vol. 2

Luigi Boccherini (Composer), La Magnifica Comunita (Orchestra), Enrico Casazza (Performer), Isabella Longo (Performer), Alessandro Lanaro (Performer), Luigi Puxeddu (Performer), Vittorio Piombo (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Enrico Casazza, Isabella Longo, Alessandro Lanaro, Luigi Puxeddu, Vittorio Piombo
• Orchestra: La Magnifica Comunita
• Composer: Luigi Boccherini
• Audio CD (March 28, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Brilliant Classics
• ASIN: B000EQ5QFO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,499 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in B flat major, G. 271 (Op. 11/1): Allegro

2. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in B flat major, G. 271 (Op. 11/1): Adagio non tanto

3. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in B flat major, G. 271 (Op. 11/1): Allegro assai

4. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 273 (Op. 11/3): Allegro molto

5. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 273 (Op. 11/3): Larghetto

6. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 273 (Op. 11/3): Minuetto, Trio

7. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, G. 273 (Op. 11/3): Presto

8. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in A major, G. 272 (Op. 11/2): Allegro non molto

9. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in A major, G. 272 (Op. 11/2): Larghetto

10. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in A major, G. 272 (Op. 11/2): Minuetto, Trio

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in F minor, G. 274 (Op. 11/4): Larghetto

2. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in F minor, G. 274 (Op. 11/4): Vivace

3. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in F minor, G. 274 (Op. 11/4): Minuetto, Trio

4. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in F minor, G. 274 (Op. 11/4): Presto

5. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in E major, G. 275 (Op. 11/5): Amoroso

6. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in E major, G. 275 (Op. 11/5): Allegro e con spirito

7. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in E major, G. 275 (Op. 11/5): Minuetto, Trio

8. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in E major, G. 275 (Op. 11/5): Rondeau, andante

9. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in D major ('L'Uccelliera'), G. 276 (Op. 11/6): Adagio assai

10. String Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in D major ('L'Uccelliera'), G. 276 (Op. 11/6): Allegro Giusto

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Music for music's sake" and the "Menuet-Celebre" in its original context., May 14, 2008

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N. Cook "Allegro Squishyoso" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boccherini: String Quintets, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

This is the second installment of Boccherini's huge body of quintets and it opens with a suave finesse from the Allegro of the first quintet. This is elegant writing that is not trying to do anything but please the listener. Incidently, here is where Boccherini receives the lion's share of his criticism - that he wasn't a profound writer. One could build a case that this assertion is ignorant at best, but overall, Boccherini never saw music as a tool to convey profundity a la Mozart (think Requiem) or Beethoven (think 9th Symphony). His was an ethos of music for music's sake and that comes across beautifully in this recording.

You will find that Op 11 isn't as continually permeated by inventive sparks and thrilling rushes as his previous set. This starts off as a calmer body of work and the first disk will convince you of that until the last track - a cheerfully rambunctious Allegro that heralds in disc 2. On the second disk you will find something very rare indeed - the "Menuet Celebre" in its original context. This little Minuette has been ripped out of its quintet and played in countless movies ad-nauseum to the point that I'm sure lost tribes in the deepest rainforests will have heard it. But here you have the diamond AND the ring, so to speak (though I really feel they play it too fast but you be the judge). Last of all is the curious "L'Uccelliera" (bird sanctuary). Boccherini's employer was Don Luis de Borbon - a happily eccentric man who delighted in collecting all manner of rare odds and ends among which was an aviary. Here our composer puts on his "pastorale" hat and creates a very original, fascinating and ultimately rococo picture of birds, shepherds and hunters. Now birds have been imitated before, but here the strings imitate hunter's horns, which is one of Boccherini's fun little quarks - making the violin family sound like everything from guitars to a Jew's harp [Op 36. no 6]).

Everything is genteel and gracious throughout - putting this album more in the "easy listening" category - perhaps the perfect thing to compliment a warm spring day.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Music, February 9, 2012

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zerosykess - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boccherini: String Quintets, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Gracefully refined luxurious, and dignified. Boccherini is posh and superlative music of the elite. Listen to it and feel that way! Some of these quintet cd's did not load on my computer, but all PLAY perfectly in my systems. You should listen to them as you play croquet on your lawn!!
The only problem I have is some of these cd's don't all load on my computer correctly. When some load they delete others!!! This is what happens when they rerelease things and don't change or update information, or are worried about antipiracy theft!!!!Does anyone else have these problems , or is it my computer??? I could only put one of these two cd's on my computer!!!! Is what i'm asking so wrong?????

Good......day