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Bach - Moroney&Holloway - cd2 Sonates for Violin and Keyboard

Detailed, lovingly shaped performances.

 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. On the whole I agree with him, especially for the opening movement of the E minor where a harpsichord cannot effectively sustain the extended pedal note. Also present here are the various movements of the Sonata No. 6 in G major which Bach gradually discarded in the process of arriving at his final