Browse: Avison Ensemble (orchestra)

This fine ensemble, founded to investigate the previously unknown music of the Newcastle composer Charles Avison, takes on his London contemporary with tremendous panache...Pavlo Beznosiuk's... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Violinists Pavlo Beznosiuk and Caroline Balding have a clear tone and easy style of playing that fits these works perfectly. The intonation is excellent, and the straight tone allows for Corelli’s... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

the Avison Ensemble eschews the flashy bravura of some of its competitors in favour of a subtle graciousness that seems to capture essence of Corelli's polished style. They point up the fleet... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…substantial pieces, earning lively and sensitive playing from the Ensemble's 11 strings and continuo. …the poignant opening of No. 3, the Con furia in No. 6 elicits some powerful playing especially... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The sound in this, and in the seamy suspensions of the Opus 1 Sonatas for Two Violins and a Bass, is beguiling: dark, flexible and sweet. — The Independent on Sunday, 8th March 2009 More…

Avison's 'Six sonatas for two violins and a bass' Op. 1 are attractive Italianate 'church' sonatas… The playing is committed and, with five sonatas in the minor mode, often impassioned. The... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…