I think Gould took the fact that this is in a minor key and tried to make it sound as if it was very sad!! The minuet, in particular, sounds like he is playing it in slow-motion, rather like he would play it if he had the music in front of him for the first time and was making sure he was playing every not meticulously correct!!! Stick to Bach.
Nici Chopin, nuar fi putut sa interpreteze mai frumos ,mai minunat,lucrarea sa! D Dinu Lipatti a fost si va ramane cel mai mare pianist al timpului sau!
Still, no doubt in my mind one if not the greatest pianist that every lived. When the Lord called him home, it was the darkest days in the world of music. He surely is missed.
Great recording from beginning to end,piano,orchestra,and sound reproduction.I had this album in my collection,purchased in 1961,yet it sounds as fresh as ever.Thank you.
There is nothing left to be said. Lipatti has communicated everything musical there is in this concerto. There are so many excellent interpretations of it, but it may be impossible for anyone to surpass this one. And the concerto itself is unique. It is up at the heights where ratings don't make sense. It simply IS! Like other unique compositions.
Dinu Lipatti "Prince du Piano" est au-delà de la perfection, et pour toujours, vraiment et réellement au-dessus car son jeu réside toujours à la pointe de L'ÂME ! et donc tout près de Dieu le Père Tout-puissant, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit. Amen
My favorite piece of music played by the best, Van Cliburn. Only he managed to bring out the intricate details and passion of the music. His interpretation transcends time.
Most other pianists play. Van Cliburn speaks, not in a prosaic sense but the way Schumann ends Scenes from Childhood with the poet speaking, the way Beethoven speaks from the heart to the heart. This, and the tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein that Cliburn imbibed from his mother the Friedheim pupil and from Rosina Lhevinne is what earned Cliburn plaudits in Moscow from the likes of Richter and Gilels and everlastingly from the Russian people. He went on to record the Liszt sonata gloriously a decade later but this 1960 live performance has matchless frisson and, yes, poetry. My favorite pianists go back to Risler, Edwin Fischer and others acclaimed by the cognoscenti but I’ve never been ashamed to proclaim Van Cliburn and you shouldn’t either. 0:24
Чудесно, удивительное исполнение !!! Но так же люблю это произведение у Алексея Султанова на Шопеновском конкурсе 1995 года. В октябре 2023 года на Шопеновском конкурсе в Нэшвилле был учрежден Гран-при Мемориала Алексея Султанова в память об одном из величайших пианистов современности, ушедшего из жизни в возрасте 35 лет.
It is beyond me how race has anything whatsoever to do with the musical muse or musicianship in particular. King Solomon wrote in proverbs that “beauty is vain” which is, of course, a reference to physical beauty. Physical beauty being evidently superficial and extremely subjective. Whereas musical talent being a natural God given gift that requires hard work and cultivation to bring to maturity and perfection. Racism in all it’s mutations and forms is just a manifestation of the depravity of the blight of disfiguring ignorance. PWG
