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This extremely well-recorded performance finely conveys the music's searing struggle to cohere; and while some of the more austere episodes might strain the listener's concentration, they are... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is quite simply an outstandingly magical disc. From the very first notes one is totally captivated by the fantastic richness of the sound produced by the combination of the viola d'amore... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 More…

The Concerto is a portrait of Louis Soutter, who studied the violin with Ysaÿe, and later became a painter of dark pictures… Holliger quotes the opening of this particular sonata in distorted... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 7th November 2005 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Veracini was part of a European constellation of virtuoso violinist composers which included Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli and Pisendel during the first half of the 18th century. John Holloway... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…