This recording of music by Boccherini and his contemporaries features works inspired by or written for the Spanish court and wealthy Spanish patrons. Of the three cello sonatas included here by Boccherini, the newly discovered (March 2004) Sonata in C minor, which here receives its world première recording, shows the influence of Spain, with a final movement suggesting a Spanish dance. The Sonata in G major, with its eighteenth-century battle, its ordered battalions, drum-rolls and the battlefield itself, shows Boccherini to have been a consummate master of descriptive music. The Balletti a due violoncelli by Giacomo Facco, in which the two cellos, most unusually, are treated as a duo, are the first known works for cello that were written in Spain.