This recording allows us to dispel the myth of Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, 1743 - Madrid, 1805) as a composer of light, gallant or even superficial works, and introduces us to deeper facets of his writing, aligned with the Central European Sturm und Drang aesthetic and musical currents.

Luigi Boccherini is a pivotal, albeit controversial, figure in Spanish music history. On the one hand, his birth in Lucca in Italy marginalised him from the discourses with a nationalist tinge expounded by Spanish musicologists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite the fact that most of his life and career were spent under the wing of Spanish institutions. What is more, the supposed Italian invasion that “contaminated” Spanish music throughout the eighteenth century also made him an uncomfortable figure to tackle. At the same time, traditional historiography has considered Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) the “inventor” of two instrumental genres of great importance in all later European music: the symphony and the string quartet. This supposed invention, which in reality consisted of the adoption of the local Viennese style as a universal (European) model of composition, helped to establish a German-centric canon that considered all other composing traditions, like the Italian-Spanish style of Boccherini, as inferior. Popular knowledge of Boccherini’s music usually goes no further than the celebrated minuet of his String Quintet in E major (G275) and his quintet La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid (G324). These pieces have portrayed the composer as light-hearted and superficial. Fortunately, many musicologists have studied various aspects of the life and work of Boccherini, offering a revised image of the composer. This historiographical revision, together with the elaboration of the definitive edition of his works, brings evidence of the high quality and depth of his music and contradicts the idea of the isolation that Boccherini supposedly suffered in Spain.

Composed of professionals with extensive experience in the field of the interpretation of ancient music, Trifolium intends to make known the wide camerístico repertoire of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries from an interpretive perspective different from the one usual in the concert halls .

Beyond the selection of the repertoire, the interest of the performances is increased with the use of original instruments and the application of musical criteria and interpretive techniques according to those used at the time.

Trifolium has participated in the cycles of the University of Salamanca, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Caja España - Duero and recently at the Antiqua Festival in Bolzano. Its members have collaborated with numerous orchestral and chamber ensembles: Axivil, El Concierto Español, Il Rossignolo, Real Capilla de Madrid, Baroque Orchestra of the University of Salamanca, Segréis de Lisboa, La Paix du Parnasse, Le-Je-Sais-Quoy, Nuovo Sonare, participating in many festivals both in Spain and abroad.

The recent appearance of the recording work on the quartets of Luigi Boccherini for the Lindoro label is a different contribution based on a very personal reading of this composer's quartettic universe.