Incredible and humbling to think that he played to such a high standard and with such sensitivity when he was virtually dying. Only three months later he was gone. Yet more proof if it was needed that the artistic legacy is all that lives on however long you happen to live ... what Lipatti produced in 33 years is worth more than a million unproductive lifetimes.
@@flintlong2937 My parents gave me an LP by him when I was about ten years old so his name and playing and always stayed with me. Thanks for replying. RUclips has totally opened up listening and watching my favourite and new musicians. It gives music that extra wonderful magical element and I would be lost without it! Carry on enjoying all the music you love.
@@katherinewyatt9585 I suspect that what your parents gave you was a remastering of the original 78's. Lipatti died before LPs came onto the market, and so the recordings have the usual imperfections of 78s. But even with those, they are just outstanding examples of how Bach and his contemporaries should be played.
What a tragic story of human spirit, suffering, selfless commitment and the far too early departure of one of our greatest musicians. I understand that here he was playing despite a high fever and was too exhausted to play the final piece - one of Chopin's waltzes (No. 2 in A-flat) and instead played Jesu Joy of Mans' Desiring that he had begun his professional career with 15 yrs earlier. He passed on only 3 months after this performance. (Wikipedia) Thank you for sharing - Dave
Yes, that is true. It's one of the most moving performances on record. The entire concert was recorded, and with quite a bit of digging around you can buy it. The whole is superb. One of the very great of greats, up there with Casals and Cortot (sad about him, his position on the fall of France in 1940 staggers belief ).
Sublime Lipatti. He escuchado a grandes pianistas tocar esta Partita y me parece que nadie la interpreta como él. Su muerte prematura nos privó de uno de los más grandes artistas de todos los tiempos. Asimismo compositor estimable, Dinu Lipatti y su gran amiga y compatriota Clara Haskil, con quien dio conciertos alcanzaron cotas inigualables. Gracias por reproducir sus interpretaciones..
The amazing clarity of this live recording on LP shows just what good technology there was back in the 1950s, that does such wonders for the clean lines of JS Bach and the lyricism of this playing.
My dad bought this album from Sam Goody back in 1950. I must have listened to it a half million times. It has affected my understanding of what music is supposed to sound like ever since.
You are so fortunate to have a Lipatti recording in your collection!! I was poor growing up so I could only "borrow" his recordings from the library two weeks at a time. His performances of Chopin's waltzes are pure gold. Such a wonderful and insightful pianist!
@@tomowenpianochannel nobady lisen this players to make comparation ,that we now is frantz list saed that Barbu Lăutaru from Romania is beter violonist than him
A wonderful performance- Lipatti is playing with a lightness of touch which makes me wonder how incredible the sound would have been on a fortepiano. Perhaps he was the greatest of all pianists. No disrespect to any of the other great masters of the keyboard, but he has an unrivalled position in the history of this instrument.
A wonderful musician. Although Liszt might be the real 'unrivalled' in piano history! with close competition from Chopin, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. There is no denying the natural talent of Lipatti though. I think he is similar to Murray Perahia. Everything just right, well-balanced, a smooth virtuosity, with a mature brain behind it, but nimble figures to rank with the best. Lipatti was young, so there is an additional freshness. Everything you hear from Lipatti sounds perfect - and, you want to hear more, and again.
That is so true, Katerina! Robert Bresson, that superb French cinematographer, said of him: “A great non-virtuoso pianist, of the Lipatti kind, strikes notes that are rigorously equal: minims, each the same length, same intensity; quavers, semiquavers, etc., likewise. He does not slap emotion on to the keys. He waits for it. It comes, and fills his fingers, the piano, him, the audience.”
These partitas remind me of a flowing brook that does not pause and is always driving forward. He conveys this very well. I like Bach played with this horizontal moving feel and no vertical pausing (except at the end of course)
+cellestialX That is one of Lipatti's greatest gifts, in my opinion, that flowing legato line, which gives a sense of both life and momentum to his wonderful performances.
It´s like healing for the soul...; like: "You are simply not allowed to give up...! And you don´t need to...! There´s still so much more yet to come...(trust ME, I made you...;-)-...!.!!"
Magnifico. O desaparecimento prematuro do Lipatti,é dos grandes desastres da história da música. O seu Bach em piano,como o Mozart da Clara Haskil,são inesquecíveis. Se houver céu,estão lá com certeza,e farei os possiveis para os ir visitar...
Der einzige Pianist der die Gravitation perfekt ausnutzt Deswegen sind die Toene so schoen und klar rein Der groesste Pianist aller Zeiten nach Chopin wenn man sieht die Pianisten heute Alle druecken und schubsen Man sagt Gibt s viele Pianisten die aber keine Kuenstler sind Dinu Lipatti ist genial
I was awestruck by the absolute beauty of this rendition. However, after reading how much pain he was in during this performance, I now find it almost unbearable to listen to...
It seems as if he is looking "far away"... as if seeing something that the other people could not see. Amazing pianist..Amazing person...a once in a lifetime artist of the highest order..
@Craig Johnson - To me, yes, I can see you shaking your head. It's probably only because I grew up listening to this recording. To me, they are the epitome of grace and beauty.
Une ère différente.... à laquelle le don de soi, le service envers l'art, le courage en silence prédominaient. Ici Lipatti était pratiquement sur son lit de mort et pouvait à peine jouer, en phase terminale et sans espoir de guérison de sa leucémie .... mais rien dans son jeu ne le laisse transparaître. Il considérait, en tant que médium, que son drame personnel ne devait avoir aucune conséquence sur son interprétation, car n'ayant rien à voir avec les intentions artistiques de Bach, Mozart, Chopin et Schubert. Imaginez donc cela aujourd'hui, avec toutes nos "hyper émotions" véhiculées à droite et à gauche! Grande leçon de musique et de vie-
All this talk about "best" is rather childish. When one transcends a certain level there is no better or worse just different ways of seeing things. Thank you.
the Tao has been waiting for someone to say this for ages praaht 18. Thank you. All these fuckwits busy comparing while the music is running...they don't hear a thing. Musical excellence is like the Tao, but also like the collective Unconscious...it belongs to all of us, Sokolov HJ Lim Uchida Waters, we're all in it together and of course we all love Lipatti...he's the Tao...as soon as we talk about and stupidly of all compare the musical excellence, it's gone
Elegantly said , respectfully. Beauty & Art are not a competition , but rather a fuel to inspire Pure Joy into the human experience ... and I believe that an aspect of Lipatti's was his humility . He might well remind you , if asked , there are many ethereally talented pianists , but there was only One JSBach .
In the old days, piano keyboards are made of ivory, therefore ppl don’t wipe them often and the keyboards are always very dirty. Thus when you see pianists hands, they are quite dirty, too, after a performance. Dinu is no exception. If you don’t believe me, go back to the photos of Dinu, and you’ll see that his fingers are quite dirty... Unfortunately, this ungainly tradition keeps on until today, even though now a day’s keyboards are made with hard durable plastic.
If that was played today people would look at their programs and be like, "What was that B flat major chord? How dare he add an introduction to the piece? What a sin to the composer and to the audience." Sigh.
Caramellatta Lipati would never have done such a thing. He was a superb musician and a composer himself. Further, there is a pause of over 10 seconds before the Partita actually begins. I was surprised to hear the arpeggio too, but I am sure he was just warming up his hands and/or checking out the piano. This is a magnificent rendition.
Monelle Richmond I was being ironic, and I'm sorry that my comment is being misunderstood. He has a right to do "such a thing". This is actually an old tradition: preparing the key or warming into the key through an improvisation, to put both the performer and the audience in the mood of that key before launching into the proper piece. I just meant that people today have become so concerned with "exactness", and improvisation has become so far removed from the tradition of classical piano performance, that any additions are frowned upon- even something as simple and as harmless as a B flat major arpeggio. I agree with you that Lipatti was a superb musician, and this is a magnificent rendition.
Caramellatta Ah, now I see the quotes. Sorry! Thanks for explaining this tradition--I had never heard of it. Philosophically, I am certainly with you and against rigid exactness. In fact, I have no patience at all with the rule of sticking to the "intention of the composer," as if we knew much about that. In my book, anyone can play anything they want to. If the pianist and audience enjoy it, what else matters? No one has to listen! :)
Monelle Richmond The only point is : not to follow "the composer" (where from did he catch the notes he's writing down ?) , not to follow the score slavely (did the composer writing really faithfully what he was receiving ?) and not to follow the audience's taste (we don't try to make car selling) , but to follow the music in itself .
Frank Romano He was being given injections between pieces so that he could have the strength to continue the concert. He died soon after. I bought this concert on vinyl in 1964 and even by then the quality of the recording was muted. i.e. the records did not have a good dynamic range. However, even through that you can hear his brilliance and a superb effortlessness. If you look at a picture of his hands you can see how big they were. His little finger (pinky) was as long as his fourth.
David Millsom David, Frank was responding to Juan's comment about Lipatti 'lacking energy' - which he did for the reasons you describe. Still nothing short of a miraculous performance.
The Piano Files Thanks Piano Files. One of my high school teachers was at that performance and told me about it. I think anyone who is fortunate to have discovered him is lucky indeed!
i think you have misread Frank Romano. "Antithesis" means the opposite of - Romano was saying that Claude wiwiam jertes was being totally wrong in calling this a vulgar interpretation. It most certainly is not vulgar, it is beautiful beyond words.
The fact that we can share the magic created by Dinu Lipatti at any moment we chose 73 yrs later is an incredible privilege. Thank you
Yup......Amen to that.
Superba interpretare! Inegalabilul Dinu Lipatti! ! !
Sencillamente magnífico. Bach no podía encontrar mejor intérprete. Gracias por compartir la grabación.
Incredible and humbling to think that he played to such a high standard and with such sensitivity when he was virtually dying. Only three months later he was gone. Yet more proof if it was needed that the artistic legacy is all that lives on however long you happen to live ... what Lipatti produced in 33 years is worth more than a million unproductive lifetimes.
This is just so pure. We lost yet another great pianist but we can always listen to him. Thank you for Dinu Lipatti.
I agree. I am utterly thrilled by his playing. He has been a favorite of mine for many years!
@@flintlong2937 My parents gave me an LP by him when I was about ten years old so his name and playing and always stayed with me. Thanks for replying. RUclips has totally opened up listening and watching my favourite and new musicians. It gives music that extra wonderful magical element and I would be lost without it! Carry on enjoying all the music you love.
@@katherinewyatt9585 I suspect that what your parents gave you was a remastering of the original 78's. Lipatti died before LPs came onto the market, and so the recordings have the usual imperfections of 78s. But even with those, they are just outstanding examples of how Bach and his contemporaries should be played.
What a tragic story of human spirit, suffering, selfless commitment and the far too early departure of one of our greatest musicians. I understand that here he was playing despite a high fever and was too exhausted to play the final piece - one of Chopin's waltzes (No. 2 in A-flat) and instead played Jesu Joy of Mans' Desiring that he had begun his professional career with 15 yrs earlier. He passed on only 3 months after this performance. (Wikipedia) Thank you for sharing - Dave
Yes, that is true. It's one of the most moving performances on record. The entire concert was recorded, and with quite a bit of digging around you can buy it. The whole is superb. One of the very great of greats, up there with Casals and Cortot (sad about him, his position on the fall of France in 1940 staggers belief ).
G'day, deldridg! Oh, how precious! His professional career began and ended with "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring". I'm just so touched by that.
Ce om frumos, cât talent și ce viață scurtă.
Such a young and brilliant pianist, Jesus Christ bless you...
Absolutely beautiful! He has a delicacy of touch and a fluidity in his playing which you rarely hear on the piano!
If you want to hear more of that delicacy, there is a record of him performing the Grieg and Schumann concerts.
Thank you, David - I love the Grieg piano concerto and Schumann's music is wonderful! I shall find them and listen to them! Chris
Christopher Mcleod
I recommend you to listen to his recordings of Chopin's valses!
Un merveilleux pianiste parti trop tôt! Intériorité et sobriété!
Listening to this, I'm filled with such gratitude, that a musical event of this order is preserved for posterity. Just magnificent🙏🏼😊
Absolute purity of style, exactly how it should be played.
なんと澄みきった美しく、切ない響きなのでしょうか。あまりにも早く天国へ旅立たれたのが、残念でなりません😥😥😥有り難うございました。
No performance is as intriguing and captivating as his wonderful performance
I miss you
FromTokyo
A Saxon composing something played by a Rumanian, and, three centuries after, reaching the very heart of a Japanese ...;
@@Fritz_Maisenbacher
Thankyou
From
A corner of Tokyo 🇯🇵⛩️㊗️🎌
Sublime Lipatti. He escuchado a grandes pianistas tocar esta Partita y me parece que nadie la interpreta como él. Su muerte prematura nos privó de uno de los más grandes artistas de todos los tiempos. Asimismo compositor estimable, Dinu Lipatti y su gran amiga y compatriota Clara Haskil, con quien dio conciertos alcanzaron cotas inigualables. Gracias por reproducir sus interpretaciones..
The amazing clarity of this live recording on LP shows just what good technology there was back in the 1950s, that does such wonders for the clean lines of JS Bach and the lyricism of this playing.
Totally.
My dad bought this album from Sam Goody back in 1950. I must have listened to it a half million times. It has affected my understanding of what music is supposed to sound like ever since.
You are so fortunate to have a Lipatti recording in your collection!! I was poor growing up so I could only "borrow" his recordings from the library two weeks at a time. His performances of Chopin's waltzes are pure gold. Such a wonderful and insightful pianist!
@@pianoman551000 My dad was a musician so a record collection was very important in our family. We were middle class.
Anyone who knows how must be played Bach on piano can appreciate the mastering performance of Lipatti. His current health did no affect it at all.
Absolutely. Some of a miracle ... ?
The best of all pianists so far.
Liszt?
Chopin?
Hamelin?
Bach?
@@tomowenpianochannel nobady lisen this players to make comparation ,that we now is frantz list saed that Barbu Lăutaru from Romania is beter violonist than him
Great pianist ! Great man ! Great loss
5:23 the Grace of this moment is unspeakable ...
A wonderful performance- Lipatti is playing with a lightness of touch which makes me wonder how incredible the sound would have been on a fortepiano. Perhaps he was the greatest of all pianists. No disrespect to any of the other great masters of the keyboard, but he has an unrivalled position in the history of this instrument.
A wonderful musician.
Although Liszt might be the real 'unrivalled' in piano history! with close competition from Chopin, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Marc-Andre Hamelin.
There is no denying the natural talent of Lipatti though. I think he is similar to Murray Perahia. Everything just right, well-balanced, a smooth virtuosity, with a mature brain behind it, but nimble figures to rank with the best. Lipatti was young, so there is an additional freshness.
Everything you hear from Lipatti sounds perfect - and, you want to hear more, and again.
@@tomowenpianochannel Hu is hamel o peharia and Frantz List himself saed that Barbu Lăutaru play beter than him
His only rival was William Kapell. The two greats.
As always, when you hear genious perfomance - the whole world's in each intonation, each note
Great perception. Thanks.
That is so true, Katerina!
Robert Bresson, that superb French cinematographer, said of him: “A great non-virtuoso pianist, of the Lipatti kind, strikes notes that are rigorously equal: minims, each the same length, same intensity; quavers, semiquavers, etc., likewise. He does not slap emotion on to the keys. He waits for it. It comes, and fills his fingers, the piano, him, the audience.”
Thanks very much for sharing this.
Merci!
These partitas remind me of a flowing brook that does not pause and is always driving forward. He conveys this very well. I like Bach played with this horizontal moving feel and no vertical pausing (except at the end of course)
+cellestialX That is one of Lipatti's greatest gifts, in my opinion, that flowing legato line, which gives a sense of both life and momentum to his wonderful performances.
cellestialX I like your interpretation of his interpretation of this monumental work. He had an incredibly beautiful spirit.
Bach means "brook" in German
@@calebhu6383 Nice coincidence, yes. Bächlein means stream.
AMAZING! THE BEST...!
Divine!
Belle articulation, ciselé, haut de gamme!
Magnificent tone from a magnificent pianist - Sviatoslav Richter , after listen to the recording of Lpatti playing Bach Partita no.1.
涙・・ありがとうございます
Thank you very much moved to tears・・・
tomoko Tme too lets cry toghter
Moshe Fisher Yes, time to. Let’s all cry together for this once in an eternity of pianists.
私も涙がとまりません。
Exquisita precisión en la articulación, movimiento y comprensión del arte chopiniano todo. Extraordinaria sensibilidad
Beautiful ! Thank you !
Che grande! Quale perdita per la musica!
clear and delicate.
Exquisito. Belleza pura.
Very wonderful - perfection in fact. He died far too young..................
Grazie
It´s like healing for the soul...; like: "You are simply not allowed to give up...! And you don´t need to...! There´s still so much more yet to come...(trust ME, I made you...;-)-...!.!!"
perfect
Magnifico. O desaparecimento prematuro do Lipatti,é dos grandes desastres da história da música. O seu Bach em piano,como o Mozart da Clara Haskil,são inesquecíveis. Se houver céu,estão lá com certeza,e farei os possiveis para os ir visitar...
Der einzige Pianist der die Gravitation perfekt ausnutzt Deswegen sind die Toene so schoen und klar rein Der groesste Pianist aller Zeiten nach Chopin wenn man sieht die Pianisten heute Alle druecken und schubsen Man sagt Gibt s viele Pianisten die aber keine Kuenstler sind Dinu Lipatti ist genial
I was awestruck by the absolute beauty of this rendition. However, after reading how much pain he was in during this performance, I now find it almost unbearable to listen to...
Have you watched the video? There are several pictures of his face...
It seems as if he is looking "far away"... as if seeing something that the other people could not see. Amazing pianist..Amazing person...a once in a lifetime artist of the highest order..
リパッティはいいですね。
最初は、ショパンのワルツ集の演奏に十五才の時感銘を受けたのでありますが、それ以来リパッティの無い日はありません。
このバッハは、クララ・ハスキルの演奏も聴いてみたいものですね
それにしてもリパッティはいいですね。
話は変わりますが、フルトヴェングラーの言葉に｢ すべて偉大なものは単純である ｣という言葉がありますが、この言葉は、芸術家のための箴言であるという事ですが
あらゆることに通じる言葉のように思えるのです。
正しくこのバッハの演奏もそうではあるまいかと思うのです。
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@alunesifistic So glad you've enjoyed it.
Sublime
His trills in the Prelude are the very best. Unfortunately, I cannot play them with my left hand :(
+Monelle Richmond They are by no means perfect. He plays them all before the beat.
+gojewla - Let me rephrase that. They are my personal favorite trills. I have heard many, and the others all sound wrong--to me.
@Craig Johnson - To me, yes, I can see you shaking your head. It's probably only because I grew up listening to this recording. To me, they are the epitome of grace and beauty.
💕❤️
lipatti is the example of playing without ego ; he is the king of kings....juan perez rollales = your reaction stincks like hell
4:57 . . . . like the women coming to the sepulchre of Christ , we find an Angel speaking to us . . . .
…here is another great musician that died so young…he was only 32….
…..enjoy….
Ida Presti... Jacqueline Du Pre
Thank You
Une ère différente.... à laquelle le don de soi, le service envers l'art, le courage en silence prédominaient. Ici Lipatti était pratiquement sur son lit de mort et pouvait à peine jouer, en phase terminale et sans espoir de guérison de sa leucémie .... mais rien dans son jeu ne le laisse transparaître. Il considérait, en tant que médium, que son drame personnel ne devait avoir aucune conséquence sur son interprétation, car n'ayant rien à voir avec les intentions artistiques de Bach, Mozart, Chopin et Schubert. Imaginez donc cela aujourd'hui, avec toutes nos "hyper émotions" véhiculées à droite et à gauche! Grande leçon de musique et de vie-
Marc Ruel
Merci pour cette explication.
Quelle conscience de cet artiste ! Quel amour pour la musique ! Quel respect du public!
Merci !
Vraiement!
Rosita Renard ? WTF.... this is marvelous. just Magic.
Thank you!
All this talk about "best" is rather childish. When one transcends a certain level there is no better or worse just different ways of seeing things. Thank you.
praaht18 Permit me to say what I feel another way. Lipatti was ein eimaliger pianist. His like can happen only once.
the Tao has been waiting for someone to say this for ages praaht 18. Thank you. All these fuckwits busy comparing while the music is running...they don't hear a thing. Musical excellence is like the Tao, but also like the collective Unconscious...it belongs to all of us, Sokolov HJ Lim Uchida Waters, we're all in it together and of course we all love Lipatti...he's the Tao...as soon as we talk about and stupidly of all compare the musical excellence, it's gone
Elegantly said , respectfully. Beauty & Art are not a competition , but rather a fuel to
inspire Pure Joy into the human experience ... and I believe that an aspect of Lipatti's was his humility . He might well remind you , if asked , there are many ethereally talented pianists , but there was only One JSBach .
I might suggest widely varying mechanical (expressive) abilities, and more or less well sensitively rendering a musical interpretation.
Gracias por difundir!
Dinu Lipatti, o Menino de Ouro, protegé da Casa Real romena, faleceu a 2 de Dezembro de 1952.
1950, not 1952
A genius dead too young......
Looks a bit like Glenn Gould's chair.
Died at 33 like Christ. All other resemblance is not by chance.
2:23
Sorry Glenn Gould - this is one step more towrds towards complete understanding of the music - he is just an instrument. Perfection.
Angels were not at the side of Glenn. He sat alone.
Big hands!
His performance remembers me michelangeli
Michellangelli adored him .
In the old days, piano keyboards are made of ivory, therefore ppl don’t wipe them often and the keyboards are always very dirty. Thus when you see pianists hands, they are quite dirty, too, after a performance. Dinu is no exception. If you don’t believe me, go back to the photos of Dinu, and you’ll see that his fingers are quite dirty...
Unfortunately, this ungainly tradition keeps on until today, even though now a day’s keyboards are made with hard durable plastic.
リパッティのバッハを聴く意味?
魂を労る事が出来たのであろうか
If that was played today people would look at their programs and be like, "What was that B flat major chord? How dare he add an introduction to the piece? What a sin to the composer and to the audience."
Sigh.
Befor making ignorant comment You need to research a bit more what happened leading up to this recital
Caramellatta Lipati would never have done such a thing. He was a superb musician and a composer himself. Further, there is a pause of over 10 seconds before the Partita actually begins. I was surprised to hear the arpeggio too, but I am sure he was just warming up his hands and/or checking out the piano. This is a magnificent rendition.
Monelle Richmond I was being ironic, and I'm sorry that my comment is being misunderstood. He has a right to do "such a thing". This is actually an old tradition: preparing the key or warming into the key through an improvisation, to put both the performer and the audience in the mood of that key before launching into the proper piece. I just meant that people today have become so concerned with "exactness", and improvisation has become so far removed from the tradition of classical piano performance, that any additions are frowned upon- even something as simple and as harmless as a B flat major arpeggio. I agree with you that Lipatti was a superb musician, and this is a magnificent rendition.
Caramellatta Ah, now I see the quotes. Sorry! Thanks for explaining this tradition--I had never heard of it. Philosophically, I am certainly with you and against rigid exactness. In fact, I have no patience at all with the rule of sticking to the "intention of the composer," as if we knew much about that. In my book, anyone can play anything they want to. If the pianist and audience enjoy it, what else matters? No one has to listen! :)
Monelle Richmond The only point is : not to follow "the composer" (where from did he catch the notes he's writing down ?) , not to follow the score slavely (did the composer writing really faithfully what he was receiving ?) and not to follow the audience's taste (we don't try to make car selling) , but to follow the music in itself .
abrbaro
Not an awe-inspiring performance.
He was killed. :(
no. he was ill.
We do not need to know the tragic cause of his death.. :
dinu is not speciallist in bach he is the greatest ib chopein and list bach you get to listen to horovitz or rubinstein
+Moshe Fisher Oh my god! Horowitz, Bach? Pls, kill me! NOW!
Papa mia why kill you now
Moshe Fisher
Because on after hearing Lipatti's Bach said he prefers Horowitz over him.... Just make it quick.
Dino is the best chopin list player in the world
Moshe Fisher
List? You mean Liszt? There's only one piece of Liszt that he recorded so we wouldn't want to judge that.
Needs more fluidity.
Ah! It's a pity you couldn't meet him in person. You could have told him that.
go to football
Good interpretation, but lacks some energy...I think the interpretation of Rosita Renard is much better...
Maybe it lacked energy because he was dying ?
Frank Romano He was being given injections between pieces so that he could have the strength to continue the concert. He died soon after. I bought this concert on vinyl in 1964 and even by then the quality of the recording was muted. i.e. the records did not have a good dynamic range. However, even through that you can hear his brilliance and a superb effortlessness. If you look at a picture of his hands you can see how big they were. His little finger (pinky) was as long as his fourth.
David Millsom David, Frank was responding to Juan's comment about Lipatti 'lacking energy' - which he did for the reasons you describe. Still nothing short of a miraculous performance.
The Piano Files Thanks Piano Files. One of my high school teachers was at that performance and told me about it. I think anyone who is fortunate to have discovered him is lucky indeed!
+juan perez rollales Comparaciones entre artistas? que inútil pérdida de "inteligencia".
a vulgar interpretation.
The antithesis of vulgarity. I wonder where these morons come from?
Frank Romano Vulgar?!? Wow, what planet are you on?
+Monelle Richmond He's a Vulcan, obviously.
+Papa mia Vulcans are not vulgar. Consider Spock. Detachment, rationality and intelligence. And very good manners. No crowd instinct.
i think you have misread Frank Romano. "Antithesis" means the opposite of - Romano was saying that Claude wiwiam jertes was being totally wrong in calling this a vulgar interpretation. It most certainly is not vulgar, it is beautiful beyond words.
Sublime