What can one do if not to feel touched most intimately in the soul when hearing the melody at 1:25 played with such a beautiful tone and such disarmaingly natural phrasing... I'm speechless. Lipatti renders like nobody else that Chopinesque love declaration, filled with joy but also resignation between 2:11 and the climax at 3:32). This whole recording is full of magic moments which really render justice to Chopin's genius! Lipatti opens my heart!
I have heard many marvelous recordings of this work. Lipatti's version is my favorite. Here is a man that plays with mastery, artistry and he expresses what really can't be put into mere words. He communicates the ineffable, sublime meaning that I think Chopin meant to convey.
Dinu Lipatti's last recital at Besancon in 1950 on 16th sept will remain always a tribute to the finest of playing, his bravery playing in such pain, and his legacy leaves us with a lifetime treasure. Angel recording 3556 B (35438-9). Two 33 1/3 L.P's
Avevo questa sonata su un disco vinile 78 rpm negli anni 50'. Non ho mai sentito un altra interpretazione così majestic, piena, romantica, sonora e intensa come questa di Dinu Lipatti. Moving forever again and again. Il suono e la registrazione sono perfetti.Dinu soprattutto suona quest'opera come si addice ad una 'Grande Forma Sonata', in ciò neppure Rubinstein e Horowitz sono all'altezza. Il culmine è il "canto spiegato con la mano destra" del tema principale. allievo di Cortot...
Sono totalmente d'accordo! Volevo soltanto significare che Lipatti è unico in questa sonata, e per innalzarlo in questo suo monumento ho voluto nominare i massimi pianisti che conoscevo. Rubinstein l'ho sentito live 2 volte a Torino nel 1958 mi pare. Aveva un tocco e un carisma fantastici. A quei tempi era considerato l'interprete per eccellenza di Chopin. Cortot ERA Chopin anche fisicamente, rassomigliava allo Chopin della fotografia. Congratulations, I understand you are a piano expert.
One can only love such a beautiful soul. As soami2u says, he breathes the music. He lovingly brings into the world and nurtures every single note, as did Chopin himself, fulfilling his task as the perfect performer, 100 percent true to his calling.
What is astonishing is the choice of tempi , the balance between strict structure tempi and the "souplesse" , the liberties which always keep into that "equilibre" structurewhich is always present. Lipatti never goes for a nice effect in a phrase but keeps in mind the whole structure of the piece. He is the most honest musician with good taste. Then to say this is it and no other interpretation is possible, is not right but there will not be big differences as the text does give the frame....
This man was amazing. I can't help wondering how much more impact he and William Kapell would have had on music if each had been with us for another 40 or more years. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be: he died of Hodkin's at age 33 in 1950, Kapell in an airliner crash at age 31 in 1953.
Lipatti doesn't so much play the music as breathe it...his phrasing, tone and feeling for the structure (and it seems a rather forbidding and diffuse movement when you first start to learn it) is nothing short of superb. Any aspiring pianist has to think--THIS is the way I would play it, if only I could!
@voolare You are right in my opinion!! I know his performance since 1962 Was stunned He represents a bettr world...... No more words,listen Greetings Jan
To my ears he is up there with Hoffmann in a somewhat higher class than all others. Cortot is also a great Chopin player,and if memory does not fail me-somewhat of a mentor of Dinu.
He plays very much like his teacher--the great cortot. I have no doubt that he worked extensively with Cortot on this piece. That being said, Cortot's playing is still more soulful, more natural, more romatic and elegant, though more wrong notes. I think Cortot's Chopin 3rd is the best I've heard so far though technique-wise not perfect at all.
Well said, this is a miracle, but I do not understand the reference to Rubinstein and Horowitz. Rubinstein plays with natural feeling, but without colors, rhythm, phrasing and clear compared to the score and Horowitz does not play that! Never recorded! Never played at Concert!
I don't think he ever makes a mistake. how is that possible? too bad so few people listen to such things . The education is so rotten that only a few kids even know how to read music, much less have a taste for such things.
