Browse: Chamber, Ernst, H W (composer)

The Erlkönig Caprice and 'The Last Rose of Summer Variations' (last of the Polyphonic Studies) stretch violin technique to its very limits. Ilya Gringolts surmounts each hurdle with the brilliance... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If I were to sum up the special quality she brings then it would be her purity and directness. Take the Elgar title-piece, which comes without a hint of whimsy, coquettishness or vulnerability... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 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…

Attractive if lightweight virtuoso concertos by one of the greatest 19th-century violinists. Lupu and his players rise enthusiastically to their technical demands. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars 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…