Word: dinu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CHOPIN: ÉTUDES OPUSES 10 AND 25 (Deutsche Grammophon). Hungarian Pianist Tamas Vasary, 35, continues to build a formidable reputation as a Chopin specialist. This is his twelfth recording of the great Romantic composer, and he compares favorably with the late Dinu Li-patti, particularly in the slower etudes. Vasary seems to have absorbed Chopin's dreamy melancholy. He etches long, unhurried lines of somber melody, but when the music calls for it, he can be a rousing bravura player as well. Opuses 10 and 25 contain some of Chopin's most familiar writing, but in Vasary...
...DINU LIPATTI (Angel 3556). Last Recital-Chopin, Bach and Schubert played by the great Rumanian pianist who died...
CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...
...embodies precise and intellectualized control, and her outlook is reflected in her evaluation of music. In her eulogy in the 1953 Saturday Review on the death of Dinu Lipatti, she wrote: "When the compositions of Dinu Lipatti are all printed, the greatness of his gifts and of his craftmanship will be recognized. It will become obvious that he was really a composer, one who heard notes, rhythms, who knew and enjoyed to assemble them, to choose, and to reject, to organize time and build forms; one who found his real self in the process, and who used the technical means...