Unam Ceylum: Sonatas for violin and continuo

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Unam Ceylum: Sonatas for violin and continuo
John Holloway (violin) Aloysia Assenbaum (organ) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harp)

[ ECM Records / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 13 November 2002

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Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Nov 2002)

"A Gramophone award-winning violinist returns to the special musical world of Biber. John Holloway won a Gramophone Award in 1991 for his probing performances of Biber's Mystery Sonatas, and in this new recording of four sonatas from the Sonatae Violino Solo of 1681, plus two further unpublished sonatas, he shows himself in no less eloquent command of this composer's very special musical language." (Gramophone)

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!" - Early Music Review

Tracks:

Sonata III F major from "Sonatae Violino Solo 1681"
Sonata IV D major from "Sonatae Violino Solo 1681" Sonata No. 81 A major (unpublished) Sonata VI C minor from "Sonatae Violino Solo 1681"
Sonata VII G major from "Sonatae Violino Solo 1681" Sonata No. 84 E major (unpublished)