The PLAN

Programme (with lecture)


DOORS OPEN 

IMAGE 1 (as audience are gathering) : LECTURE TITLE 

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IMAGE 2 (after everyone's sat, BEFORE walk on) : ABEL BY GAINSBOROUGH

Artists' entrance, bow, play:

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787):  Sonata in E minor (first movement)

IMAGE 3:  PALAIS DE TUILERIES

Introduce - The story of the rivalry began with .. etc., etc.,

..while at the end of the eighteenth century only professional players played the viol. Abel was generally thought to be the last of these players, certainly the last to be celebrated as a virtuoso gambist. But even they resorted to the cello. Show picture.

IMAGE 4 : ABEL WITH CELLO AND CONCERTO SPIRITUALE

At this point I somehow need to take the audience a step back into the mid 1700s when composers began to issue music that could be played on either instrument. Michel Corrette - who, what, - Les Delices - what - title page. This is a sonata played on cello: 

IMAGE 5 : CORRETTE TITLE PAGE

Michel Corrette (1707 – 1795): Sonata no. 6 in D major, Op. 20 (first movement)

And here an example of a duet:

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689 – 1755): Sonata no. 3 in D minor, Op. 14:

Allemande - Lentement - Gigue

Talk the most here. Talk about general previous perceptions of the viol and cello. Touch on terminology (as a digression). Talk about actual examples where cello and viol were specified. 

IMAGE 6 : HOFKONZERT (1755)
followed by
IMAGE 7 : PRINCE BISHOP

Johannes Schenck (1660–after 1712): Sonata no. 2 in A minor, Op. 9:

Adagio  - Corrente  - Vivace