Boccherini: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 21, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Luigi Boccherini
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Violini Capricciosi
    • PERFORMER
      Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, Ale
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 21, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421966120
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96612
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      5
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    3. III. Presto assai

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    4. I. Andante

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    5. II. Allegro assai

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    6. III. Rondo: Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    7. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    8. II. Cantabile ma con un poco di moto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    9. III. Presto assai

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    10. I. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    11. II. Largo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    12. III. Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    13. I. Moderato

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    14. II. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    15. I. Maestoso assai

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    16. II. Rondo: Allegretto ma con moto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    17. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    18. II. Menuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    19. III. Presto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    20. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    21. II. Menuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    22. I. Andante

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    23. II. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    24. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    25. II. Largetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    26. III. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    27. I. Allegro spirituoso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    28. II. Andante

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    29. III. Allegro molto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    30. I. Largetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    31. II. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    32. I. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    33. II. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    34. III. Presto assai

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    35. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    36. II. Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    37. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    38. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    39. III. Presto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze, Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya

    40. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    41. II. Largo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    42. III. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    43. I. Largo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    44. II. Allegro alla militare

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    45. III. Minuetto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    46. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    47. II. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    48. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    49. I. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    50. II. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    51. III. Affectuoso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    52. I. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    53. II. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    54. III. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    55. I. Adagio

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    56. II. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze

    57. III. Affectuoso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

      Performer: Igor Ruhadze


The start of a major new series on Brilliant Classics – historically informed accounts of the violin sonatas by a Classical-era master of Rococo charm and invention.

Luigi Boccherini, still in his mid-20s, dedicated his Op. 5 violin sonatas to the Parisian keyboard soloist Mme. Brillon de Jouy. As a result, the keyboard is more than an equal partner with the most showy writing, in the style of the sonatas ‘for piano and violin’ by both Mozart and Beethoven. Boccherini himself thought well enough of these works to draw from them many times throughout his career. Movements from these sonatas appear in reworked guises in other chamber works and symphonies.

The other sonatas here came into being later in Boccherini’s career as arrangements of other works by Boccherini made by publishers eager to capitalise on the fame and industry of a composer renowned throughout Europe for his attractive melodic fluency Several of them are transcriptions of his cello sonatas, though whether the arrangements were made by the composer himself remains a mystery. Other sonatas were skilfully put together from his many string quintets; they made Boccherini’s music accessible to those who could not perform the ensemble works in their original versions. Brilliant Classics has produced the largest ever collection of Boccherini’s works on record with its 37CD edition, which won stunning reviews in the international press. This new set of violin sonatas becomes a vital addition to the Boccherini library of collectors. Each new album by the period-instrument violinist Igor Ruhadze has likewise attracted critical praise, not least in his regular partnership with the Russian-born pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya. Their recording of F.Geminiani Violin Sonatas op.1 received warm critical praise.

REVIEWS:

The Six Sonatas Op. 5 for harpsichord with violin accompaniment, published in Paris in 1768, constitute the only authentic examples intended by Boccherini for this instrumental combination. The keyboard style, highly idiomatic with its scales, triplets and broken octaves, the pre-Romantic atmosphere of the slow movements as well as the quality of the melodic and rhythmic elements, excited Europe. If Boccherini did not entrust anything else to this instrumental combination, then editors remedied this by generating several transcriptions. It is this unprecedented wealth that Brilliant intends to explore here – other volumes are expected.

The pianoforte of Alexandra Nepomnyaschchaya does not dethrone, in Opus 5, that of Franco Angeleri (Tactus, 1990) who followed the autograph manuscript of Parma in the company of Enrico Gatti. The chiseled refinement like the incisive dynamic of the touch, the expressive restraint of the violin expressed in the two Italians an unequaled feeling and sharing. Among the newcomers, the seduction is more demonstrative, the contrasts more accentuated, the sensuality and the feeling more showy, as in the Allegro maestoso of No. 6 or the Allegro molto of No. 5. Above all, the Andante of No. 4, just whispered by Angeleri and Gatti, gains an indescribable beauty.

The movements of trios, quartets and quintets reduced by Mlle. Le Jeune (Vénier, Paris, 1782) are a happy surprise. The distribution of voices is skillful. The infinite delicacy of the Andante sostenuto of Sonata G 51 is truly worthy of Boccherini. Certainly, the Amoroso of the G 52 and the Allegro con spirito of the G 53 have charm. No repeat being forgotten, some movements seem a little long. Sometimes a simple foil to the pianoforte, Igor Ruhadze takes his revenge in the Six Sonatas for violin and basso continuo (La Chevardière, Paris, 1775). The Sonatas for cello and basso continuo G 20 are the most emblematic of Boccherini. It is magnificent in places (Largo de la no 5) but above all exotic (no 6, after the famous G 4). The violin, with sober and clear diction, is supported by a balanced bass entrusted to the cello continuo and the harpsichord. Looking forward to the sequel!

-- Diapason