John Holloway : baroque violin / Aloysia Assenbaum : organ / Lars Ulrik Mortensen : harpsichord
Schmeizer, Johann Heinrich - Unarum Fidium / Bertali, Antonio - Chiacone [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded December 1997, Released 1999 |
BIBER
Unam Ceylum: Sonatas for violin and continuo John Holloway (violin) Aloysia Assenbaum (organ) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harp) [ ECM Records / CD - released 13/Nov/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Nov 2002) |
BIBER / MUFFAT
Violin Works (Includes Sonata Victori der Christen) John Holloway (violin) Aloysia Assenbaum (organ) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Apr/2005 ] Holloway's ECM recordings have received the highest critical praise. |
LECLAIR
Trio Sonatas John Holloway (violin) Jaap ter Linden (cello) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (cembalo) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Revelatory performances of these Italian violin sonatas with a strong French accent." Editor's Choice - Gramophone April 2009 |
VERACINI
Violin Sonatas John Holloway (violin) Jaap ter Linden (cello) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (cembalo) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Mar/2006 ] "In not trying to charm, Holloway and friends render Veracini an utter delight. On their terms, of course." Editor’s Choice – Gramophone Magazine (April 2006) |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: 7 Sonatas, BuxWV 259-265 John Holloway (violin) / Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba) / Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jan/2006 ] "Wonderful music, very well performed. I have listened to the disc repeatedly since it came into my hands. It gets better every time." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
CASTELLO / FONATANA
Sonatas concertante in stil moderno John Holloway (violin) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Jane Gower (dulcian) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "just hearing the music itself, regardless of this infectious, quick-witted performance, is a revelation." (Gramophone) |
TELEMANN
Quatuors Parisiens Vol. 2 & 3 John Holloway (violin) / Linde Brunmayr (flute) / Lorenz Duftschmid (viola da gamba) Ulrike Becker (cello) / Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 18/May/2011 ] With this edition cpo presents a complete recording of the twelve »Paris Quartets« featuring high points in Telemann's chamber music as well as enthralling and imaginative interpretations by top-quality instrumentalists performing with elegance and... |
BUXTEHUDE
Chamber Music (Complete), Vol. 3: 6 Sonatas John Holloway (violin) Ursula Weiss (violin) Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] "Of the many Buxtehude recordings which have come my way recently from the Naxos/Dacapo stable and elsewhere, this is perhaps the one likely to be played most often." (MusicWeb March 2008) |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Wozzeck (Complete Opera recorded in 2013) Katarina Dalayman / Carl Johan Falkman / Ulrik Qvale / Sten Wahlund / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera Stockholm / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] Based on real events and playwright Georg Bu¨chner's starkly vehement text, Alban Berg's tragic opera Wozzeck is an epoch-making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim "now that's... |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Wozzeck (Complete Opera) Katarina Dalayman / Carl Johan Falkman / Ulrik Qvale / Sten Wahlund / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera Stockholm / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2002) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Harpsichord Concertos ( 3 CD set) Kenneth Gilbert, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Nicholas Kraemer / The English Consort / Trevor Pinnock [ Archiv Trio / 3 CD - released 11/Oct/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "Trevor Pinnock plays with real panache, his scholarship tempered by excellent musicianship." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 1994 |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Harpsichord Music, Vol. 1 Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] This first volume of the series covers the full range of Buxtehude's compositional styles for the keyboard, from the brilliant and virtuosic opening Toccata in G major, to the more subtle and melodic Suites in C major and D minor in the French style. |
BUXTEHUDE
Harpsichord Music, Vol. 2 Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Having been born half a century after Heinrich Schütz, the 'father of German musicians', and a little less than half a century before J. S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude was a living link between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest... |
BUXTEHUDE
Harpsichord Music, Vol. 3 Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Born fifty years after Heinrich Schütz, the 'father of German music', and little less than half a century before J. S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude provided a link between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. While Buxtehude's... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Maria Keohane, Joanne Lunn, Alex Potter, Jan Kobow, Peter Harvey / Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ CPO SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott, Junghänel & John Butt as the finest examples of this kind of perspective on performing Bach's monumental oratorio |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Volume 2 Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (Harpsichord and musical direction) [ CPO / CD - released 12/Jul/2016 ] |
J. S. BACH
Violin Concertos, BWV 1041-1043 & Oboe Concerto, BWV 1060R Peter Spissky (violin), Bjarte Eike (violin) Antoine Torunczyk (oboe), Manfredo Kraemer (violin) / Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ CPO / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Concerto Copenhagen played its first concert in 1991 and has since developed into Scandinavia's leading early music ensemble, joining the league of the world's most exciting and innovative Baroque orchestras. Original interpretations and a strong... |
WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 1975} René Kollo, Ulrik Cold, Gisela Schröter, Theo Adam, Reid Bunger / Rundfunk‐Sinfonie‐Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2015 ] This reissue of the 1975 live recording of Wagner's Parsifal features a stellar cast: the great René Kollo in the title role, further Theo Adam, Gisela Schröter and Ulrik Cold, and the splendid Rundfunk‐Sinfonie‐ Orchester Leipzig, conducted by... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Keyboard Concertos Hob.XVIII (Nos 2, 3, 4, 11) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) / Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ BIS / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Brautigam plays a Paul McNulty 1992 instrument built after Anton Gabriel Walter. It is a lovely instrument, out of which Brautigam is able to coax a great variety of shades of expression." - MusicWeb March 2005 |