"… What we like most in an artist of such vitality as Lipatti is that he doesn’t run the danger of choosing the path of empty virtuosity – on the contrary, it is the artistic value this virtuosity serves. He doesn’t allow his meridional temper to fracture the work’s style, and there is even in him a reserve as to expressing artistic passion or personal sensibility – both, displayed with neither brutality nor facile romanticism. Force and clarity are the two qualities which characterize his playing, as well as elegance and noble musical comprehension. His program contained two contrasting numbers: the D major Toccata by Bach-Busoni and the B minor sonata by Chopin. The Eisenach master’s work was performed with monumental force, in organ-like resonances; the forte was a little too ponderous to my taste, and so was, in the overture, the use of the sustain pedal, because of which his precision seemed slightly dimmed. In Chopin’s Sonata the pianist deftly alternated an unusual clarity and a poetic sense: I have never heard this piece performed in such a noble, intelligent manner. […] Each of his enthusiastic auditors understood he was one of the most perfect pianists of our century…”