 05-01-2007 |  |
| From the North East of England comes the welcome news that the Avison Ensemble has received £50,000 (e 75,000) in support of their work for the 2007–8 season. In the last few years they have managed to buy two substantial manuscript workbooks by Charles Avison, containing music by other composers that he copied out, and previously unknown works by him. |
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This has led them to embark on an impressive “Concertos of the North” project, setting the music in the context of the 1745 rebellion, and throwing valuable light on one of the most interesting native English composers of the eighteenth century in the years leading up to celebrations of the tercentenary of his birth in 2009.
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