Sax Sextets

Menuet & Trio

Luigi Boccherini, arr. Ben Tordoff

Composed:
1771 Arranged:
2020 Grouping:
sSATBb Duration:
03:20

Luigi Boccherini composed a great many string and guitar quintets, but most are largely forgotten. This delightful minuet from the fifth quintet in opus 11 is one of his best known works, with a memorable theme.

This arrangement for six saxes splits the fast violin part across the middle instruments and with so much going on a light touch is required to retain the feel of a light-hearted dance.

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