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In Reply to: I have known and treasured the Lipatti Schummann for some 50 years... posted by C.B. on December 10, 2006 at 07:47:03:
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.
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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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