Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini late in his life was commissioned to write or adapt his early ensemble music to include a guitar. The result was remarkable, the guitar part was integrated as a full member of the string quintet such that one cannot imagine hearing this without the guitar part included. He composed several of these Quintets, this one is the famous "Fandango Quintet".

The rendering by Guitarist Byron Tomingas focused the interpretation on bringing in the Spanish Flamenco Gypsy flare that Boccherini had lamented might be lost if this were played outside of Spain.

This is the first movement of three (in the original Heinrich Albert edition, some editions place the slow, sensual Pastorale first) Allegro Maestoso.

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