"I remember the amazement, the thrill I felt as I was listening to 15-year old Dinu Lipatti play Liszt’s E flat major concerto. It was as if I had only then discovered the true value of this work; the usually carnivalesque brilliance was turned into that enthusiasm the soul experiences before the vision of Nature in full bloom; and the music now seemed so grand! One felt the particular nature of the talent he had even then. Focused, weighing the importance of the music’s modulations, he showed a keen sense of tempo and he carefully tended to every facet of each phrase, polishing them until he had reached the perfect expression. Destiny, sometimes in a hurry to light, in a person of her choice, the flame of genius, illuminated this precocious intellect, and the young musician became a fully-developed artist at an age when his contemporaries look for superficial success and pleasure.”