"We were favoured with an interpreter who went deep in the heart of the matter, who knew how to rationally structure the work’s many levels and progressive developments, and who attended to its technical requirements with an extremely gifted natural mechanism. We believe it is to Bach’s style that Mr Lipatti is closer to, rather than to the one Beethoven or most Romantic composers call for, and from among those he is nearer to Liszt than to Chopin. Without trying to appear neither grand nor heroic, instead by carefully and intelligently balancing the sounds and their constitutional qualities, and through the endless resources of his refined, lithe, skilful pianism, attentive as always to minute details but this time succeeding in keeping visible the general line, Mr Lipatti offered us the proper image of this 18^th-century music, endowed, apart from magnificence, with so much radiant and charming lyricism. That wasn’t an ascetic, abstract, dry and geometrical Bach, but a living one, which permanently kept us focused. Maybe in the concerto the orchestra, even if led with the accustomed care and punctuality by Mr Georgescu, sometimes covered the aural lace created by the soloist, who has so much to gain when heard alone…”