Avison Ensemble 'Charles Avison's Workbooks come alive!' concert, The Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle, Sunday 20 May 2018

This amazing replica Workbook cake was for the audience to enjoy as we celebrated the end of our yearlong HLF-funded project. The cake included an accurate copy of the score of Avison's Con Furia movement from his 6th Concerto after Scarlatti which was performed at the concert. The cake's music was so accurate it could have been used as the performing score! The real Workbook is shown open at the same page.

We ended our yearlong Heritage Lottery-funded project exploring Newcastle's 18th century composer Charles Avison and his two music Workbooks with a celebration concert of music from his Workbooks and music by his contemporaries. One of Avison’s Workbooks was on view at the concert and the Ensemble brought to life some of the wonderful music contained in it and its fellow Workbook.

The programme included:
Avison’s Concerto Grosso op. 6 no. 1 in G minor - Avison’s autograph score of his Concerto op. 2 no. 1 (published 1740) is found in his second Workbook. He later revised and reissued this work as his Concerto op. 6 no. 1 (published 1758).
Avison’s Concerto after Francesco Geminiani’s Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo op. 1 no. 3 in E minor - Avison’s autograph scores in his second Workbook are the only known source for his concerto grosso arrangements of Geminiani’s Sonatas op. 1.
Avison’s Concerto Grosso after Domenico Scarlatti no. 6 in D major -Avison’s autograph scores of the second and fourth movements of this concerto are found in his second Workbook.
The Ensemble also performed Francesco Scarlatti’s Concerto no. 11 - the only known source for Francesco Scarlatti’s eleven concerti grossi is Charles Avison’s first Workbook where they are noted as ‘Sonate da Sigr. Francesco Scarlatti’.
Avison’s contemporaries were represented by performances of John Garth’s Cello Concerto op. 1 no. 1 in D major; Handel’s Concerto Grosso op. 3 no. 3 in G major HWV314; and a rare performance of Vivaldi's flute concerto Il Gran Mogol (The Grand Moghul) in D minor RV431a – this concerto had been lost since 1759 and only rediscovered in 2010.

Autograph manuscripts by Avison were practically unknown until the Avison Ensemble acquired his two autograph music Workbooks in 2000/2002. The Workbooks provide a rare glimpse into how Avison and other 18th century composers devised their music, as well as containing previously unknown pieces by Avison and transcriptions of music by others. These manuscripts are therefore of great importance both to the cultural history and heritage of Newcastle and the North East and to our understanding of the musical world in England in the 18th century.

The Avison Ensemble has been highlighting the existence and importance of the Workbooks through a series of events and learning projects in Newcastle and the North East with funding awarded by The Heritage Lottery Fund. www.hlf.org.uk The Workbooks are available to view in Newcastle City Library’s Newcastle Collection.

The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

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