BOCCHERINI EN BOADILLA

Trios opus 14 (1772)

CD 1

Trío op. 14/1 (G95) en Fa mayor / F major
01 Allegro
02 Adagio assai
03 Minuetto Allegro
Trío op. 14/2 (G96) en Do menor / C minor
04 Allegro moderato
05 Adagio
06 Tempo di minué
07 Prestissimo
Trío op. 14/3 (G97) en La mayor / A major
08 Allegro moderato
09 Largo
10 Allegretto smorfioso & Adagio come Iª
11 Minuè

CD 2
Trío op. 14/4 (G98) en Re mayor / D major
01 Allegro giusto
02 Andantino
03 Allegro assai
Trío op. 14/5 (G99) en Mib mayor / Eb major
04 Andantino
05 Allegro, e con spirito
06 Variazioni. Allegretto sostenuto
Trío op. 14/6 (G100) en Fa mayor / F major
07 Larghetto
08 Allegro
09 Rondeau con moto 2:34

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About this CD

Whether it is as a string player, as a director of ensembles like La Real Cámara or El Concierto Español, or as a teacher and a scholar Emilio Moreno has been applying his talents in the cause of the music that he loves and defends: the previously ignored area of the Spanish Baroque and pre-Classical eras. Moreno's chamber music activities with La Real Cámara have provided us, for instance, with a survey of music from the times of the painter Francisco Goya as well as a previous disc devoted to late Boccherini String Trios. This new Boccherini recording covers the group of six Trios (G95-100, op. 14) dating from 1772 when Boccherini was working in Spain for the Infante Don Luis de Borbón in Boadilla - in the palace recently restored for Milos Forman's film Goya's Ghosts - which come to life in the hands of Moreno and his long-term collaborators Enrico Gatti and Gaetano Nasillo.

Moreno: "From the very beginning Boccherini has always been a reference point in Spanish music for me. Although it is true that he was already fully-formed as a composer when he arrived in Spain, the subsequent Spanish influence on him - beyond the question of fandangos - is so clear that it is difficult not to consider Boccherini as a Spanish composer. I am captivated by his marvellous independence from the Viennese tradition, his particular handling of string colour, his easy-going and fluid melodic capacity, the delicateness of his dynamic shadings... The six Trios op. 14 from 1772, together with the terzettini, op. 47 from 1793 are the only works written for the combination of violin, viola and cello. They are possessed of an admirable writing in which the three instruments at times sound like a quartet or a quintet; the part for the viola - and I have a special attraction for this instrument - is specially beautiful; and I was additionally attracted to the idea of recording these pieces alongside my great, admired and much-loved friends Enrico Gatti and Gaetano Nasillo, with whom I enjoy an immense musical affinity."