Boccherini: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol.2 (CD)

Luigi Boccherini 1743-1805

Complete Violin Sonatas · Volume 2

Six Sonatas for violin and piano

(arranged by Thomas Billington), published in London, 1780

Sonata No.1 G.34 in C

1. I. Allegro con forza 7’55
2. II. Adagio 4’39
3. III. Rondo Grazioso 2’18

Sonata No.2 G.35 in E

4. I. Allegro moderato 3’40
5. II. Cantabile, ma con un poco moto 3’00
6. III. Tempo di Minuetto 4’28
7. IV. Finale Presto assai 0’41

Sonata No.3 G.36 in B flat minor

8. I. Allegro assai 4’44
9. II. Adagio 3’02
10. III. Allegro [Presto Assai] 6’31

Sonata No.4 G.37 in E flat

11. I. Allegro 4’49
12. II. Adagio 1’31
13. III. Tempo di minuetto 1’56
14. IV. Allegro assai 6’22

Sonata No.5 G.38 in A

15. I. Andante grazioso 5’21
16. II. Allegro con spirito 6’00

Sonata No.6 G.39 in D

17. I. Andante 3’19
18. II. Allegro con spirito 4’05
19. III. Rondo Tempo di Minuetto 4’52

Igor Ruhadze baroque violin

Hendrik Jakobs, Amsterdam, 1693 (on loan from the NMF)

Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya fortepiano

5-octave fortepiano by Gijs Wilderom, Amsterdam, 2000

(after Anton Walter, Vienna, c.1795)