Chamber, Quintets, String Quintets, Boccherini (composer)
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Boccherini: Music of the Angels
RecommendedCello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets
Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in the String Quintet in D minor G280 – the album’s centrepiece – Isserlis and friends entwine Boccherini’s lyrical strands into a felicitous musical conversation: balanced, measured and fully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Refreshingly, the programme is drawn from the composer's most experimental works...and is delivered not just with percussion, but also with fire, enthusiasm and wit. —
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… the recording brings out to the full, as never before, the subtlety of Stokowski's orchestrations with their brilliant terracing of texture, with colourings that designedly echo the sound... —
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With more than 100 Boccherini cello quintets to choose from, the problem for anyone wanting to make recordings is which to choose. The E major G275 (formerly Op 13 No 5) makes an obvious first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2002, Editor's Choice
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The frustration of those who seek to identify Boccherini's works by their opus numbers may end in their being taken into care by sympathetic men in white coats. The first three of the six string... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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With a tangible bloom to the recorded sound, this quartet and their indefatigable cello partner Raphaël Feye are musicians to watch. —
