Word: lipatti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...then she went right back work, teaching, directing, performance. Perhaps the creed she practices is expressed by a passage from writing on Lipatti...
...Moscow apartment, where he does landscape paintings from memory, Richter listens by the hour to recordings of Rubinstein, Gieseking and Lipatti. During later tours-perhaps London or even the U.S. this fall-he is bound to show again that he belongs in that company...