Composer: Violeta Dinescu, George Enescu, Dinu Lipatti
Performer: Markus Schäfer, Mihai Ungureanu
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dreyer Gaido
Catalogue: DGCD21132
Release: 2021
Size: 198 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Enescu: 7 Chansons de Clement Marot, Op. 15
01. No.1, Estrene à Anne
02. No.2, Languir me fais
03. No.3, Aux damoyselles paresseuses d’escrire à leurs amys
04. No.4, Estrene de la rose
05. No.5, Present de couleur blanche
06. No.6, Changeons propos, c’est trop chanté d’amours
07. No.7, Du confict en douleur
Lipatti: 5 Chansons de Verlaine, Op. 9
08. No.1, À une femme
09. No.2, Green
10. No.3, Il pleure dans mon coeur
11. No.4, Le piano que baise une main frêle
12. No.5, Sérénade
Lipatti: 4 Mélodies
13. No.1, Sensation
14. No.2, L’amoureuse
15. No.3, Capitale de la douleur
16. No.4, Les pas
17. Dinescu: Mein Auge ist zu allen sieben Sphären zurückgekehrt
The production with tenor Markus Schäfer and his accompanist Mihai Ungureanu, which bundles works by three important Romanian composers, is intended as a musical homage to Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950), who died much too early and whose unbroken fame as a brilliant pianist makes it easy to forget that he was also an important composer.
Dinu Lipatti is a unique figure in the pantheon of pianists. His international fame is due almost exclusively to the widespread distribution of recorded output that was in the words of his producer Walter Legge, “small in output but of the purest gold”. When Lipatti died of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the age of 33 in December 1950, he left behind little more than three and a half hours of recordings for EMI’s Columbia label. Since that time, those recordings have been published in the catalogue the world over and gradually supplemented by a handful of highly prized unpublished concert and broadcast performances. Six decades after Lipatti’s death, the search for more examples of his playing continues, and indeed more treasures are coming to light.
Dinu Lipatti even today this name immediately elicits a murmur of admiration from musicians and this recording contains the World Premier Recording of Violeta Dinescu’s ‘Mein Auge ist zu allen sieben Spharen zuruckgekehrt’. Dinu Lipatti, one of the greatest pianists of the 20thcentury, whose interpretations, with their authenticity and clarity, have led to an admiration which borders on the mystical.
“It was no longer piano playing, it was music, released from all earthly weight” (Herbert von Karajan).
This CD leads us firstly from Lipatti, who was also a composer and whose two song cycles are the central works of this CD, to the”Sept Chansons”of his patron George Enescu.
A second path leads us to Violeta Dinescu. She was always inspired by Lipatti’s piano playing and his “unbelievable richness of colours” (Dinescu).
It was an initiative by Jenny Abel which led her to compose her Song Scene”Mein Auge ist zu allen sieben Spharen zurckgekehrt” for Dinu Lipatti’s 100th birthday.
Thus, this CD, which comprises of works by these three Romanian composers, can be seen as aHommage a Dinu Lipatti, whose fame as a pianist leads us easily to forget that he was also a notable composer.