Lipatti: Bach, Liszt, Bartók

I have to say that Dinu Lipatti is amazing. Despite this fact, I could not enjoy Liszt nor Bartók, as I expected (due to my taste of authors, of course). But Busoni's adaptation for piano of Bach's BWV 1052 - Concerto for harpsichord No.1 in D minor in the hands of Dinu Lipatti is just sublime.

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
JS Bach: Concerto for harpsichord #1	Dm	BWV 1052	Eduard van Beinum / Concertgebouw orchestra,  1947	Arranged by Busoni
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto #1	Eb	S.124	Ernest Ansermet / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, 1947
Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto #3		Sz. 119	Paul Sacher / Orchester des Südwestdeutschen Rundfunks, 1948

Dinu Lipatti: Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert

This CD has been praised so heavily, it was a must-have. And certainly it did not fail to the expectations created.

How sweet was the decrescendo in the sixth movement of the partita.

Beautiful "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" and the sonata for flute & harpsichord #2. Especially in the latter, how beautiful the transcription made by Kempff, that one can distinctly listen the flute in the piano.

Wow! Such a carefree playing of Mozart's Sonata #8 in Am.

The sound of the 1957 recording, that is Schubert's, is a bit too muted, and is the least giving, perhaps for being live. Yet, it is amazing how Lipatti plays each style so distinctively. And how tender and lovingly, yet seemingly carefree, he interprets each.

These recordings were done in 1950, 51 and 57, and they are so clear, a CD by EMI Classics.

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
Partita #1	Bb	BWV 825	Bach	1950
Choralvorspiel		BWV 599	Bach	1951, "Nun komm', der Heiden Heiland" (arr. Busoni)
Chorale Prelude		BWV 639	Bach	1951, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (arr. Busoni)
Cantata		BWV 147	Bach	1951, "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" (arr. Hess)
Sonata for flute & harpsichord #2		BWV 1031	Bach	1951 (arr. Kempff)
Sonata	E	Kk 380	Domenico Scarlatti	1951
Sonata	Dm	Kk9	Domenico Scarlatti	1951, "Pastorale"
Sonata #8	Am	K310	Mozart	1951
Impromptu	Gb	D.899 N.3	Schubert	1957
Impromptu	Eb	D.899 N.2	Schubert	1957