"If it is said that Lipatti recalls Rubinstein and sometimes Horowitz to mind, then the best has been said about him. It is not an exaggeration but we must observe that this double comparison entails only praise. Rubinstein and Horowitz are two completely different types of pianists. The first is solar, and the music sun shines powerfully and vigorously in his interpretations. The second one is delicate, and owns a thoroughly personal sentimental imagination. To be like both of them would prove a lack of internal balance. Lipatti has Rubinstein’s force – if not of polished granite, then at least of granite – and Horowitz’s stylistic fantasy. He wants something though: perhaps a more visible personality, or that spiritual creative force – to sum it up, his interpretation wants unity. Lipatti can sometimes show much sentiment and sensibility, at other times he lacks them where they would have been needed most. It’s as if he is afraid to give all of himself to music. […] But Lipatti is on the right path. The phenomenal technique he developed allows him to make sensible progress: he must only continue this way, but to turn towards that most inner part of his soul, in order that his will and his experience unite and form a harmonious personality.”