On February 16, 1942, Willem Mengelberg conducted the National Radio Orchestra in a second historical concert; the solo part of Liszt’s E flat major concerto was given by Dinu Lipatti.

Here is how Miron Șoarec recalls the event, in his volume My friend Dinu Lipatti:
“What an enormous success! Eight, nine curtains call for Dinu Lipatti in front of a public whose ovations brought down the house! Mengelberg himself, electrified, remained all this time on the podium, close to his stand.”

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The recital Lipatti gave in Stockholm on September 13, 1947 generated quite a few positive reactions in the Swedish press.

Music critic Kurt Attenberg wrote in Stockholm Tidningen of the next day:
“The only thing this pianist doesn’t know how to do is miss notes. His precision and his sound are astonishing”.

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On the recital Lipatti gave in Sweden’s capital on September 13, 1943,

Allehanda’s music critic wrote on the following day:
“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…”

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The recital Lipatti held in Sweden’s capital on September 13, 1943,

was thus reflected in Afton Tidningen of September 14, 1943:
“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.”

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Swiss music critic and composer Frank Martin

recalls hearing Lipatti for the first time:
“I instantly felt, right from the very first notes, that something unusual was happening, that I had never heard a piano played like this.”

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