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Encounters with Dinu Lipatti
My first encounter with the art of the pianist Dinu Lipatti came when I was a high school student of about 16. I had developed an interest in historical recordings and great pianists, and I was looking...
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Chopin’s Second Etude
The following are excerpts from a wonderful autobiographical memoir by Alexander Kok, a South-African cellist who was in the Philharmonia Orchestra when Lipatti recorded the Grieg and Schumann Piano...
View ArticleLipatti Interview on Swiss Radio: July 27, 1950
Three interviews survive of Dinu Lipatti on Swiss radio from 1950, the last year of his life (none have been found from previous years). Here is a recording of the first of the three, dated July 27, a...
View ArticleDinu Lipatti interviewed by Franz Walter, Radio Genève, September 29, 1950
The final recorded interview with Dinu Lipatti took place two weeks after his legendary final recital in Besançon. On September 29, 1950, Lipatti spoke with Franz Walter at Radio Genève about the...
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Bartok’s Third Concerto
One of the misperceptions about Dinu Lipatti is that he had a small repertoire. Because he only recorded two piano concertos for EMI – Schumann and Grieg’s sole concertos, both in A Minor – and because...
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La Leggierezza
Dinu Lipatti signed his contract with the Columbia label of EMI in January 1946, and at his first session at a studio in Zurich that July he recorded three works: Chopin’s Waltz in A-Flat Op.34 No.1,...
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The Bach-Busoni D Minor Concerto
Dinu Lipatti is justly celebrated for his performances of Bach. He had a seemingly unique capacity to vary the attack used by different fingers even within the same hand so that the voicing of each...
View ArticleDinu Lipatti’s Final Essay – On Interpretation
Below is a draft from May 1950 of a presentation for an Interpretation Course to be held at the Conservatoire de Geneve. Lipatti had planned to give the course with Nadia Boulanger in the Spring of...
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Liszt’s First Piano Concerto
Dinu Lipatti recorded only two piano concertos for EMI – the Grieg and Schumann Concertos, both in A Minor, and both mainstays of the repertoire. While the Grieg has its more virtuosic side, somehow...
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Schubert’s Impromptu in G-Flat Major
Today is the anniversary of Dinu Lipatti’s legendary final recital at the Besançon International Music Festival on September 16, 1950, so it seems a fine time to publish and discuss one of the...
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