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Avison: Trio and Keyboard Sonatas

dda21214 (2 discs)

DDD
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 47'21"/49'48" - TT 97'09"
Tracks: 24+12
Booklet pages: 20
© 2009 The Avison Ensemble / Divine Art Ltd
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Avison: Trio and Keyboard Sonatas published on 11 July 2012

Listen: Presto (Keyboard Sonata No 1 in A) (CD2 track 2, 0:00-1:00)

Robert Howarth, copy by D Jacques Way and Marc Ducornet, Paris, of an original Taskin harpsichord, c1770, from the Yale Collection (Op 8)
Pavlo Beznosiuk, violin from the Hill workshop c1760
Carolin Balding, violin of the Stainer school c1680
Richard Tunnicliffe, cello by Leonhard Maussiell, Nuremberg, c1730
Robert Howarth, small Chest Organ by the Dutch firm Van der Putten and Veger (Op 1)

Charles Avison (1709-1770):

CD1

Trio Sonatas Op 1

No 1 in chromatic Dorian mode
1 Adagio - andante
2 Allegro
3 Dolce
4 Allegro

No 2 in G minor
5 Andante
6 Allegro
7 Adagio
8 Allegro

No 3 in G minor
9 Largo
10 Allegro
11 Adagio
12 Allegro

No 4 in Dorian mode
13 Largo
14 Allegro
15 Adagio
16 Allegro

No 5 in E minor
17 Adagio
18 Allegro
19 Adagio
20 Allegro

No 6 in D
21 Andante
22 Allegro
23 Adagio
24 Giga: Allegro

CD2

Keyboard Sonatas Op 8

No 1 in A
1 Andante cantabile
2 Presto

No 2 in C
3 Allegro
4 Interludio andante
5 Allegro

No 3 in D
6 Marcia andante
7 Aria allegretto

No 4 in B flat
8 Andante
9 Presto

No 5 in G minor
10 Andante
11 Presto

No 6 in G
12 Aria andante - allegro

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