In 1783, Boccherini composed a Christmas Pastorale for a Villancico, a typically Spanish genre. He was Italian, but lived in Spain and integrated the music of his host country in a remarkable way. Shortly before his death in 1801, he revived this music in a string quintet that has never been recorded. I've just made a recording of it with virtual instruments ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVp0cw0mkE ). For full details, you can read the description page of my Pastorale video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKcKduPlies
There you'll find a link to the Villancico, "Villancicos al nacimiento de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo", with subtitles in the original language, Spanish.
END OF MOVEMENT
This movement does not have a musical ending (on the tonic), as Boccherini asks us to follow immediately with the Minuetto. For an interpretation of the movement in isolation, you can end where I did in this recording, bearing in mind that Boccherini wrote 8 bars of transition to the Minuetto.
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