Browse: Ian Hobson (piano)

There’s much to like in this well-drilled and responsive reading. It offers a different slant on a composer whose posthumous reputation is that of piano pot-pourris. If not everything is convincing,... — MusicWeb International, November 2019 More…

Lupu, deftly and flamboyantly accompanied by Ian Hobson, astonishes and bewitches in equal measure...This is a hugely entertaining disc. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Its four movements and 23-minute duration make Caprice Roumain the closest we have to an Enescu concerto, and it is fabulous. This work alone would justify the purchase of this disc. Every bit... — Fanfare, March/April 2023 More…

every imaginable technical device [in the Rossini paraphrases] is mercilessly exploited, and this performance meets every challenge head-on...[Lupu's] ability to vary the speed and intensity... — International Record Review, January 2012 More…

[Lupu is] full of little details and subtleties that align his playing with the presumed performance practices of the time — flattened intonation to point ‘pathetic’ phrasing, for instance. — MusicWeb International, April 2013 More…