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Holloway… uses rubato continually: notes extended for expressive emphasis are balanced by moments where the music flows forward unimpeded. This is heard most impressively in the florid introductory... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Pärt: Lamentate
Alexei Lubimov (piano)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart & The Hilliard Ensemble, Andrey Boreyko
After a subterranean rumble, a sorrowful fanfare makes way for an ascent of the solo piano keyboard, and a shuddering orchestral climax that sets the tolling of alarm bells against a Mahlerian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach: Ich Hatte Viel Bekümmernis
Heinz Holliger (oboe, oboe d'amore) & Erich Höbarth (violin & conductor)
Camerata Bern
He plays idiomatically...with stylish decorations. Yet surprisingly he combines his modern oboe with Baroque period strings...Camerata Bern supports buoyantly and though with momentary minor... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Levin fully understands the whole work's structure and his fingers to all that could be asked of them. He is alive, too, to the poetry of the atmospheric pieces and, with Ya-Fei Chuang, gives... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, Instrumental Choice
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John Holloway plays four sonatas from the set of eight Biber published in 1681 and also dedicated to the archbishop. First, however, comes a curiosity: an adaptation by Andreas Anton Schmelzer... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Jean-Marie Leclair - Sonatas
John Holloway (violin), Jaap ter Linden (violoncello) & Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
Holloway and his experienced continuo players relish the pleasing combination of Italian brilliance with French melodic grace. Of particular charm are the movements marked 'Aria': these singable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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English Renaissance Music
A recital which contrasts the inspirational work of Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard
David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
The Hilliard Ensemble
The ensemble is flawless and the sound reproduction crystalline. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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the luminous playing of the opening of Berg's Sonata Op. 1 tells us this is a pianist of rare sensitivity...Varjon's probing approach reveals the finest shades of harmonic colouring and places... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Instrumental Choice
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These are superlative performances of these extremely familiar works...The give and take between Fellner and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra is uncanny, in that they seem to be questioning or... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Concerto
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