"Such a programme is quite likely to be fatal to the pianist who would content himself with only copying that which his colleagues have been doing for a hundred years now. But Chopin can also render evident the qualities of an artist, if the artist shows that he is able to transform so well-known a music into something appealing and new. Dinu Lipatti, master of undeniable agility, performer of elegant authority, musician whose intelligence impregnates everything he plays, brought Chopin’s personality before us in a tremendously evocative manner. Every polonaise, etude, waltz, or ballade is a minute image of the energy, tenderness, fantastic, pride, or dignity with which this composer’s whole body of work is infused; with his refined, full of poetry artistic vision which at no point became neither falsely nor excessively animated, Dinu Lipatti sends us right back to the most authentic Chopin.”