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Icon: Dinu Lipatti
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List Price: $46.98
Our Price: $46.98
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099920731823
Format: Box set
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 7
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: 2008-09-02
Studio: EMI Classics
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Dinu Lipatti- The Master Pianist plays Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Grieg, Schumann, Bartok and Schubert on this seven CD set. Dinu Lipatti (1917- 1950 ) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. Despite his short career and a relatively small recorded legacy, Lipatti is considered one of the finest pianists of the 20th century.
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Summary: Lipatti's incredible recordings
Comment: There are very few recordings of Dinu Lipatti, due to his tragically early death. All them are in this 7 CD set (unless I have missed something), and all of them are of otherworldly beauty. In particular the Schubert impromptu no.2 in E-flat I found to be the most soulful recording of any piece I have ever heard. Needless to say I recommend this product to absolutely everyone.
A few quotations from others who can describe Lipatti much better than I:
From Yehudi Menuhin - Lipatti was a "manifestation of a spirit realm, resistant to all pain and suffering."
From Francis Poulenc - Lipatti was "an artist of divine spirituality."
From Walter Legge - "God lent the world His chosen instrument, whom we called Dinu Lipatti, for too brief a space."
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Summary: The entire legacy of a great pianist who died very young
Comment: Of the postwar artists who died tragiclaly young (Kathleen Ferrier, William Kapell, Guido Cantelli), the very youngest was Dinu Lipatti, who succumbed to leukemia at 33 in 1950. In death he has become as romantic a figure as any Dumas herione, his memory all the more elusive because of his angelic temperament and very truncated dsicography. Lipatti was a musician's musician, his style being refined, precise, and aristocratic. EMI owns all his commerical recordings, so far as I know, which are gathered here as one of their "Icons."
The series is admirable as an omnium gatherum, making it easy with one purchase to get everything the selected artist has done on EMI. Because of his lasting fame, not much of Lipatti has stayed out of print for long, and the extras found here (e.g., Liszt Cto. #1 and Bartok Cto. #3) are dim radio broadcasts. The actual studio work easily fits on 5 or 6 CDs -- even then we get duplicaitons of Lipatti's definitive LP of Chopin Waltzes (about which I am in the minority, finding each waltz too uniformly fleet and aloof).
In any event, the price at Amazon Marketplace is very cheap, so if you don't know Lipatti's art and can abide mono recordings from the immediate postwar years (never a pleasure on the ear), it's wonderful that he hasn't been forgotten.
Here's the complete program for the 7 CD set:
Bach, J S:
Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052
Bartók:
Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119
Brahms:
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 1 in B major
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 2 in E major
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 5 in E major
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 6 in C sharp major
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 10 in G major
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 14 in A minor
Waltz, Op. 39 No. 15 in A flat major
Chopin:
Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
Waltzes Nos. 1-14
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Enescu:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major, Op. 24/3
Grieg:
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Liszt:
Petrarch Sonnet No. 104 Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième année, Italie, S161/5
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
Mozart:
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K310
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Ravel:
Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs No. 4)
Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major
Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor
Schubert:
Impromptu in E flat major, D899 No. 2
Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
Schumann:
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
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