John Holloway

Chiara Banchini, John Holloway - Leclair: Sonatas for 2 Violins Op.3  & Op.12 (1998)

Chiara Banchini, John Holloway - Leclair: Sonatas for 2 Violins Op.3 & Op.12 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:12:55 | 840 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | Catalog: 3984-24245-2

These two discs contain Leclair's 12 sonatas for two unaccompanied violins en duo. He produced them in two sets of six, the earlier one, Op. 3, dating from 1730, the later one from 1747-9. Barely a handful have previously been recorded, so these new issues make an important addition to the baroque catalogue. Leclair more than any of his French contemporaries implemented the technical developments in violin playing which were taking place in Italy in the hands of the post-Corelli generation.
John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Susan Sheppard - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas For Violin And Keyboard (1999) 2CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas For Violin And Keyboard (1999) 2CDs
John Holloway, violin; Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, chamber organ; Susan Sheppard, cello

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 689 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:11:03
Genre: Classical | Label: Virgin, Veritas x2 | # 7243 5 61650 2 1

John Holloway and Davitt Moroney have set up a musically rewarding partnership in these brilliantly inventive works, furthermore adding to their programme the two lovely sonatas for violin and continuo long attributed to Bach, and justly so. In both of them they are joined by Susan Sheppard (continuo cello). For these sonatas Moroney has preferred a chamber organ to a harpsichord.
John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: The Mystery Sonatas (2002)

John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: The Mystery Sonatas / Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 722 Mb | Total time: 74:52+55:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 62062 2 | Recorded: 1989

Biber's 15 Mystery Sonatas with their additional Passacaglia for unaccompanied violin were written in about 1678 and dedicated to his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg. Each Sonata is inspired by a section of the Rosary devotion of the Catholic Church which offered a system of meditation on 15 Mysteries from the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The music isn't, strictly speaking, programmatic, though often vividly illustrative of events which took place in the life of Christ.
John Holloway - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Unarum fidium (1999)

John Holloway - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Unarum fidium (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 332 Mb | Total time: 63:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM Records | # ECM 1668 | Recorded: 1997

John Holloway’s recital of mid 17th century music mines the rich sonic possibilities of a highly unusual instrumental combination: baroque violin with basso continuo provided by harpsichord and organ played simultaneously by two musicians, both realising the figured bass to the full harmonic, contrapuntal and rhythmic potential of their instruments. Aloysia Assenbaum and Lars Ulrik Mortensen brilliantly support Holloway’s exhilarating account of Bertali’s "Chiacona" and move with him through the mysteries of Schmelzer’s "Sonatae Unarum Fidium".
John Holloway, Jaap Ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen - Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music, Vol.2 (1995)

John Holloway, Jaap Ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen - Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music, Vol.2 (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:08 | 446 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.224004

It's hard to believe this CD was done with only a violin, viola da gama and harpsichord. This is polyphonic music at its finest. It does tribute to Buxtehude, who preceded Bach. The ensemble is perfect - the instruments complement each other. When they go from slow to fast, it is remarkable to hear the contrast. These are expert musicians with a complete mastery of their instruments. They use loud-soft as easily as any masters of the Baroque. The result is joyous, lively and entertaining.

John Holloway Ensemble - Henry Purcell: Fantazias (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 21, 2023
John Holloway Ensemble - Henry Purcell: Fantazias (2023)

John Holloway Ensemble - Henry Purcell: Fantazias (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 Mb | 00:41:46
Classical | Label: ECM Records

After a programme of works thematically spun around Renaissance composer John Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavans (ECM 2189), violinist John Holloway and his ensemble now devote their art to Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s “fantazias”. Commenting on the fantasias in his detailed liner note, Holloway remarks how “it is tempting to see their brilliant distillation of the very best of Byrd, Lawes, Jenkins and Locke as a personal farewell to a kind of music, which in Purcell’s own chamber music would soon be superseded by sonatas.” Purcell’s fantasias are regarded as some of the finest and most intricately wrought works in the genre, embracing profound counterpoint and a great command of all of the polyphonal techniques of the time. Holloway and the ensemble’s reading of the three- and four-part fantasias offers deep insight into the compositions’ fabric, revealing a fresh perspective of a composer with, as Holloway notes, “an extraordinary ability to walk the fine line between joy and sorrow, to beautifully express the melancholy which was such a characteristic mood of his times.”
John Holloway - Bach: The Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Solo (2006)

John Holloway - Bach: The Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Solo (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 823 MB | 02:12:20
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

Rarely has this music been played so naturally and with seeming effortlessness, with such a commanding knowledge of both formal proportions and idiomatic character. John Holloway, one of the most distinguished baroque violinists of our time, has researched and practiced these works for forty years. Specializing in the repertoire from the baroque period (1600-1750) he perceives Bach in the context of his predecessors and contemporaries - such as composers like Schmelzer, Biber, Veracini (whose works he has presented in highly praised recordings in recent years) rather than in the perspective of romantic and modern violin literature.
John Holloway / Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonate Concertate (2012) {ECM 2106}

John Holloway / Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonate Concertate (2012) {ECM 2106}
EAC 1.0b2 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 645MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 163MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical

About Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana, two Italian composers from the turn of the 17th century, musical scholarship hasn’t much to tell us. We know as little about Castello, who was leading an ensemble at St. Mark’s around 1629, as we do about the exact birth and death dates of Fontana, who came from Brescia and probably perished during the 1630 outbreak of plague in Padua. Yet there are a number of surviving works by both men that reveal them to have been remarkable composers for the violin. Two books by Castello of sonate concertate in one to four parts, in stil moderno with continuo, were printed during the composer’s lifetime. In his new recording violinist John Holloway has selected a number of sonatas from this collection to couple with similar works by Fontana, some originally for violin as well as some conceived for other string or wind instruments.
Davitt Moroney, Janet See, John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Martha Cook - Bach: Musikalisches Opfer (1999)

Davitt Moroney, Janet See, John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Martha Cook - Bach: Musikalisches Opfer (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 51:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMX 2951260 | Recorded: 1987

The introductory Ricercar and the first group of Canons are presented clearly but not pedantically on one or two harpsichords, and the sensitively played Trio Sonata follows, given added color by using flute, violin and continuo. The Canon perpetua is then heard on the same combination and, for all the remaining Canons except one, Moroney returns to his harpsichord(s). Good recording, truthfully transferred.

John Holloway - Biber: Unam Ceylum (2002)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 1, 2019
John Holloway - Biber: Unam Ceylum (2002)

John Holloway - Biber: Unam Ceylum (2002)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 500 MB | 77:19
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

A magisterial account of Biber's Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, some of the most remarkable and forward-looking music created in the late 17th century, played by John Holloway, with Aloysia Assenbaum and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. 'The continuo team provide a lavish backdrop to Holloway's fantastic realisations of Biber's music, with all its twisting and turning passagework, the increasingly intricate variations, the complex double-stopping in scordatura; it's all there, and it's all brilliant in the true sense of the word. No one interested in the repertoire should miss this!