The Unknown Enescu, Vol. 2
Sherban Lupu (violin), Ian Hobson, Viorela Ciucur, Sinfonia da Camera
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...
The Unknown Enescu, Vol. 2
Sherban Lupu (violin), Ian Hobson, Viorela Ciucur, Sinfonia da Camera
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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...
About
Although Enescu gave opus numbers to only 33 of his works, he left an enormous number of pieces in varying stages of composition, from sketches and draft outlines to isolated movements and some scores that are almost complete. Working with a handful of composers and musicologists – fellow Romanians with specialist knowledge of Enescu’s style – the violinist Sherban Lupu has produced performing editions of a number of previously unknown works, heard here in the context of other Enescu rarities. One of these ‘rescued’ pieces, hiding behind the modest title of Caprice roumain, is nothing less than a major violin concerto.
Contents and tracklist
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Ian Hobson (piano)
- Sherban Lupu (violin)
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Viorela Ciucur (piano)
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Viorela Ciucur (piano)
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Viorela Ciucur (piano)
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Viorela Ciucur (piano)
- Sherban Lupu (violin), Viorela Ciucur (piano)
- Sinfonia da Camera
- Ian Hobson
Awards and reviews
March/April 2023
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 of Enescu’s craft is found here, despite the fact that he left only sketches, and the spirit of the music is very similar to that of the beloved Romanian Rhapsody. Lupu and conductor Hobson have a great deal of fun with it.
January 2023
[Romanian Rhapsody is] a scintillating and stylistically apt refashioning of the orchestral original, preserving much of the music’s colour and glistening folkloric bravura… the finale [in Caprice Roumain] is crisp, brisk and attractive.
