Various - Dinu Lipatti Collection - 100th Anniversary Edition

Dinu Lipatti is one of those almost mythical figures of the piano cosmos. His star shone briefly, but with incredible intensity � and its lingering aura threatened at times to obscure the view of his playing. Conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) was repeatedly quoted: �It was no longer piano playing, it was music, released from all earthly weight, music in its purest form, in a harmony that can be imparted only by one who was no longer of this world.� Karajan is Lipatti�s partner in the 1948 recording of Robert Schumann�s A minor Concerto, widely hailed as the �everlasting� benchmark recording, which is correspondingly included in this CD Edition. The year 2017 marks the centenary of Lipatti�s birth, and at the same time the 67th anniversary of his death � and his life, all these years later, is still just as fascinating.