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In Reply to: Re: Must have Dinu Lipatti recordings? posted by Frank Waller on December 10, 2006 at 06:17:45:
since I was about 10 (my mom gave me the LP as a Xmas present). IMO it has never been equaled, and believe me, I have sampled just about all the available recordings (and purchased most of them) in the intervening years attempting to find its successor.Thanks for the info--I never knew that the Lipatti Schumann was taken from a radio broadcast. That does explain the somewhat dim sound.
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C.B.It is a joy when something as simple & humble as an old mono LP can hold such high personal value.
Lipatti was the most spiritual of Western musicians, and was unsurpassed in his chosen repertoire. The question of which Lipatti recordings to get is easily answered: all of them (but watch for counterfeits and misattributed performances).The live recording of the Schumann PC augments the Karajan/Philharmonia studio version that most collectors own. Get both.
Lipatti was the most spiritual of Western musicians, and was unsurpassed in his chosen repertoire>I think this is really going too far. There are several better Chopin waltzes (and pianists), and give me Feinberg in Bach Partita 1. I love Lipatti also, but I'd put him with somebody like Michelangeli - a fine artist but not a genius at the piano like Rachmaninov.
Rachmaninov was a diffident performer at the piano in many works, particularly his own. We do have his great Chopin sonata and Carnaval, and he had technique like few others. So did Hoffman, but most now find his playing too glossy and superficial inspite of the matchless fingerwork.I haven't heard the Waltzes by Lipatti in many years, I'll have to revisit. Perhaps too much praise has been heaped on this artist, very young when he died with very few recordings to his credit. Modern medicine could have saved him, or at least given him many more years to mature.
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