String Quintet in B minor, G350

composer

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

Op 42 No 3

Recordings

Boccherini: Cello Quintets, Vol. 2

RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello)

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Movement 1: Andante affettuoso

RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello)

Track 9 on CDA67383 [5'47] Archive Service Only

Movement 2: Allegro giusto

RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello)

Track 10 on CDA67383 [5'01] Archive Service Only

String Quintet in B minor, G350

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Thirty-two of Boccherini’s 110 quintets with two cellos are called ‘Quintettinos’, having only two (or a maximum of three) movements, this one dating from 1789. A desperate melancholy pervades the Andante affetuoso even when, true to form, Boccherini escapes B minor as quickly as possible and D major becomes a mask for an assumed jollity. The impetuous second movement Allegro giusto contains a quasi-trio section (two cellos and viola) in G major marked flautato, sounding like distant melancholic flutes. This work has never been published.

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