Word: boccherini
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...Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione (A); Boccherini: Trio No. 3 in E flat, Op. 35 (W); Moussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (E); Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 for 'Cello (Cap); Kodaly: Marosszek Dances (D); Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in C minor...
...record companies have put out a huge repertory, covering the range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society...
Looking at times like embattled warriors, at times like impassioned lovers, the cellists played either part of Bach's Suite No. 5 for Unaccompanied Cello or the first movement of Boccherini's Concerto in B Flat. The Russians displayed remarkable technical facility but were cold, while some of the Soviet satellite entries laid it on with cloying warmth...
...imposing castle, which is often passed off as a medieval relic, although it was actually built by mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria only 70 years ago. The specialty at Schloss Herrenchiemsee (near Munich) is low-calorie chamber music, e.g., Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn, Boccherini, Dittersdorf, played by a string quartet beneath the castle's crystal mirrors and chandeliers...
...lifelessness of the performances was particularly noticeable during the slow movement of Boccherini's 3rd Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...