Browse: Ernst Complete Music for Violin and Piano (series)

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…

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…

For those who esteem Ernst as Paganini squared, the performances of the violin music by Sherban Lupu, neither heavy handed nor agglutinated, should be irresistible. And for those to whom an evening... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…