Quintettes Avec Contrebasse Op.39

Ensemble 415 Chiara Banchini - violin Enrico Gatti - violin Emilio Moreno - viola Käthi Gohl - cello Cléna Stein

1 Quintette op.39/1, G.337 (Luigi Boccherini) en Si bémol majeur / B flat major / B-dur 1 Andante lento 4'56 2 Allegro vivo - Tempo di minuetto - Grave - Allegro vivo 3'19 3 Rondeau. Allegro non tanto - Minuetto - Rondeau 5'58 4 Quintette op.39/2, G.338 en Fa majeur / F major / F-dur 4 Allegro vivo, ma non presto 6'13 5 Adagio ma non tanto 4'25 6 Minuetto 2'51 7 Finale. Allegro vivo ma non presto 4'33 8 Quintette op.39/3, G.339 en Ré majeur / D major / D-dur 8 Allegro vivo 7'27 9 Pastorale. Amoroso ma non lento 6'23 10 Finale. Presto 3'37 11 Quatuor op.44/4, G.223 'La Tiranna' en Sol majeur / G major / G-dur 11 Presto (Tirana) 6'57 12 Tempo di minuetto 4'44

Quintets with double bass? The combination is rather rare, but to Boccherini, court composer to the Infante Don Luis and then to Charles II in Madrid, it must have had a special significance, because these three works are unique among his 125 string quintets.