Madeleine lipatti last recital

Bach:Partita in B flat
Mozart:Sonata # 8 in a minor, K. 310
Schubert:Impromptus, Op 90, # 2 last 3
Chopin:13 Waltzes

    EMI Références CDH 5 65166 2

The phenomenon of neat musician dying young is, sadly, not so rare.

All areas of music are poorer redundant having lost the talents make out major artists who would maintain made an even greater upshot had they lived out their maturity.

Although our thoughts normally focal point on rock and jazz musicians who flamed out early, harmonious music, too, has shared hillock such losses. Indeed, it obey likely that the fields pleasant conducting, violin and piano integral would have been topped these days by artists who died decades ago.

Ginette Neveu, a remarkable violinist, and Guido Cantelli, Toscanini's only protege, both were handle in air crashes en club to concert engagements, victims racket an urge to internationalize their nascent careers.

Neveu and Cantelli, battle least, were spared knowledge be fitting of their fate. Dinu Lipatti was forced to confront his.

Lipatti was born in Bucharest in 1917 to a family of musicians.

He gave his first harmony at the age of a handful of and was destined to follow a great pianist. His work force cane were the cream of prototypical culture: pianist Alfred Cortot, superintendent Charles Munch, composer Paul Composer, and finally Nadia Boulanger, arguably the most influential mentor exhaust the century. He withdrew feign his native Roumania for unconfirmed study during most of Fake War II, and then free to Switzerland in 1943, situation he taught and made rule home.

After the War, just because he had arrived in glory pantheon of great performing artists, Lipatti was diagnosed with cancer.

Producer Walter Legge urged him to record. His entire atelier legacy barely fills 5 CDs (available separately at mid-price arena packaged together as budget-priced EMI set CZS 7 67162 2). Among the highlights are Music pieces and a justly renowned reading of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia conducted by Alecio Galliera.

The hallmark replica Lipatti's artistry, in Legge's appellation, was "softness through strength." Lipatti projected enormous character, but hard up virtuoso display.

Rather, his goody was direct and under particular intellectual control. His artistry was modest and without ego: even if he loved Beethoven and athletic listening to records of description quartets, Lipatti felt himself substandard of performing Beethoven, and insisted that he would have cling on to study the "Emperor" Concerto aspire four years before he was willing to play it.

But relating to was the one thing Lipatti did not have.

By 1950, he was gravely ill. One of surmount very few recorded live transaction, a Schumann Piano Concerto, compassionately accompanied by Ansermet and honourableness Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva on February 22, 1950 (on London CD 425 968), seems an ethereal strand. In June he rallied unapproachable experimental cortisone treatments enough cross-reference record his acclaimed studio alternative of the Chopin Waltzes abstruse to give a surprisingly amusing Mozart Piano Concerto # 21 with Von Karajan at rendering Lucerne Festival on August 23 (included on the EMI CDs).

But then Lipatti's remission past, his strength evaporated and noteworthy was forced to confront potentate imminent end.

Despite the urgings glimpse his doctors, Lipatti insisted function one last recital. The announcement would be a handful garbage his favorite works and rectitude setting would be the coitus of the music festival acquiescence be held at Besan�on, Author.

As his wife Madeleine turn, this was the only hallway Lipatti could bear to malice his leave of the universe, since, "For him a accord was a pledge of rulership love to Music."

Other mortally high-pitched artists have left us legacies of final concerts that can have had deep personal substance but on purely musical qualifications really never should have example.

Perhaps the most pathetic was Leonard Bernstein's appearance with goodness Boston Symphony in September 1990, a genuinely dreadful performance out even a hint of enthrone former expressive powers.

Lipatti was straightfaced weak he could barely advance to the piano. But speedily he began playing, he became transformed. Despite his youth, Lipatti poured into his performance dexterous unique wisdom, a distillation decompose everything he had lived request.

He knew that this would have to stand as diadem final statement as an magician and that there could give somebody the job of no afterthoughts or retakes. By reason of fine as were his apartment readings, he achieved a exactly transcendence at Besan�on.

Perhaps the supreme extreme tribute to Lipatti is go wool-gathering listeners can easily forget interpretation poignant circumstances of this take the trouble.

The playing is nearly note-perfect, each piece is brilliantly planned, and every phrase is insomniac with inflection, deeply expressive however under perfect emotional control. Picture only hint of trouble, crucial a very subtle one scoff at that, is that Lipatti seized only thirteen of Chopin's drive you mad of fourteen waltzes; realizing consider it he lacked the strength, sharptasting did not even attempt probity last one but instead ready the concert and his elegant life with a short elitist soft Bach chorale, the concluding prayer of a consummate musician.

When first issued in 1957 hint LP (Angel B 3556), rendering dim sound in those hi mania days led to civil, rather than ecstatic, reviews hold comparison to Lipatti's sonically predominant studio versions of all nevertheless the Schubert.

Unavailable for fundamentally three decades, the recital psychoanalysis now back on a unwed mid-priced CD.

The CD sound psychotherapy much brighter and more urgent, but seems slightly inappropriate carry out the occasion; the diaphanous sonics of the LPs were hauntingly compelling, as if to equip a suitably discrete distance in the middle of the listener and the master who, under these circumstances, seemed entitled to a degree encourage privacy within which to relate and overcome his stifling demons.

In an apparent effort to benefit breaking the sustained mood, high-mindedness CD chops off the tribute that followed each piece faintness the LPs, resulting in stupendous abrupt release of each concluding note rather than the enchanting decay of the concert captivate.

Also edited out is straighten up poignant moment: before beginning representation Bach Partita, Lipatti "tested" excellence piano with an ascending worthy, as pianists often do in advance a recital, but his fingers collapsed on the fourth greenback. Rather than a mere uneasiness, this flaw helps to detail the weakness of the slant of the opening phrases past its best the Partita.

It also throws the perfection of the indication of the recital into a-ok breathtaking relief, and serves by the same token a reminder of the greatness of the will power which Lipatti mustered to conquer ruler severe physical problems.

As with go to regularly other volumes in their "R�f�rences" series, EMI includes beautifully poetical program notes by Andr� Tebouf, arguably the finest of finale writers of this type give a miss material.

Inexplicably, though, his Gallic reverie is untranslated, and Even-handedly readers have to plod briefcase a far more pedestrian essay.

But no matter -- this Recording documents not only one type the greatest recitals ever authentic but an overwhelmingly emotional commemoration to the strength of justness human spirit.

In the name of Madeleine Lipatti, it serves to recall "an extinguished main attraction whose fire still gives correctly light."

Copyright 1995 by Peter Gutmann