Boccherini s Quintets for Guitar and Strings do not highlight the guitar as solo instrument in the way that better-known Baroque concerti frame and focus upon their respective solo instruments. Rather, the instrument insinuates itself into a company of strings and plays along with them, sometimes providing a steady background and occasionally emerging as a conventional soloist.


Tracklist:
CD1: 1.18 05
Quinteis for Guilar and Strings
No. 1 in d-moll, G. 445
1. 1. Allegro moderato
2. 2. Cantabile
3. 3. Minuetto
4. 4. Finale (Allegro assai)

No. 3 in B-dur, G. 447
5. 1. Allegro moderato
6. 2. Tempo di minuetto
7. 3. Adagio
8. 4. Allegro

No. 5 in D-dur, G. 449
9. 1. Andantino pausato
10. 2. Minuetto (Allegro)
11. 3. Allegro giusto
12. 4. Andantino pausato con variazioni - Allegro giusto

No. 7 in e-moll, G. 451
13. 1. Allegro moderato
14. 2. Adagio
15. 3. Minuetto
16. 4. Allegretto

CD2: 1.18 10
No. 2 in E-dur, G. 446
1. 1. Maestoso assai
2. 2. Adagio - Allegretto
3. 3. Polacca (Tempo di minuetto)

No. 4 in D-dur, G. 448 «Fandango»
4. 1. Pastorale
5. 2. Allegro maestoso
6. 3. Grave assai - Fandango

No. 6 in G-dur, G. 450
7. 1. Allegro con vivacite
8. 2. Andantino lento
9. 3. Tempo di minuetto
10. 4. Allegretto

No. 9 in C-dur, G. 453 «La Ritirata di Madrid»
11. 1. Allegro maestoso assai
12. 2. Andantino
13. 3. Allegretto
14. 4. «La Ritirata di Madrid»

Performers:
PEPE ROMERO guitar
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Iona Brown Malcolm Latchem violins
Stephen Shingles Viola
Denis Vigay cello Violoncello
Tristan Fry sistrum and castanets
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