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His Recitals Reviewed

Biography / Writings


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An all-Chopin programme was followed by a positive review signed by Constantin Brăiloiu

in Journal de Genève from January 25, 1948:
“One sensed in the ovations which thanked Lipatti for his performance not only the due admiration, but that maternal affection the town where cruel fate wanted him to fly to the heaven bears him as well.”


Jacques Chapuis, author of some of the most touching pages on his teacher Lipatti,

remembered in Hommage à Dinu Lipatti (Labor et Fides: Geneva, 1952):
“I had the revelation of Chopin at the same instant I had the revelation of Lipatti; it was as if, at that concert in Bern and through the E minor piano concerto followed by a charming and poetical bouquet of etudes, one revealed me the other. I had never heard the piano played with such plenitude and such diversity of colour.”


Walter Legge wrote in the Columbia commemorative album “Dinu Lipatti 1917 – 1950”

published by S. N. Mercure, Paris, on December 2, 1955:
“To be sure, Lipatti is by his very nature the «purest» pianist I have ever worked with.”