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  • This is the last concert of Lipatti, who died at 33. The doctors insisted again and again to not to give this concert, due to its poor state of health as it was in the terminal phase. He played the Bach 1º partita. K. 310 of Mozart, two "Impromptus" by Schubert, 13 Chopin waltzes. He can´t play the 14th Chopin Walts for the extreme fatigue, so he chose to finish the concert the first piece he played in his life, when he was only 4 years. Lipatti died playing her first music on the piano

  • Extremoduro.

    

  • Bach joué par LIpatti c'est juste l'art porté à son plus haut point..C'est divin, ça remue votre âme.Quel touché, quel puretés...La quintessence de l'art musical...

  • Sorry, you're wrong: It's true that Lipatti didn't have the strength to play the 14th Waltz by Chopin, and played Bach "Jesu joy etc." instead (as a farewell. He knew he had to die soon). But the recording here is from july 1950. His health had been temporarily "boosted" by injections of hydrocortisone (funded by an array of secret admirers). After two months, his health finally deteriorated. (As always, when you use medicine in raw form! Yes, I'm a homeopath!!)

  • Lipatti had the very special destiny of becoming world famous after his death. And becoming world famous by playing "unoriginal arrangements". Only music mattered to him. His motto was "The ur-spirit, not the ur-text"! (hard to translate!)

  • Well done

  • Video Tipp

    " Bruder Ignatz tanzt in der gemeinde"

    Freude in jesus

  • This selection was my introduction to Dinu Lipatti. It sounded as if no fingers were not touching the keys and only heavenly music was reaching my ears. After finding out who he was, I then acquired his records and concerts, one by one.

    I still think he has the best fingering technique of anyone .

    He is the greatest,

  • I cannot say if it is his interpretation that hits and moves me so much, or the awareness he died so young just few months after this recording, or the sweetness of Bach, or everything mixed together. I read once that music looks like a long explanation, and I do think it's true, especially with him.

  • @elicottero

    For information this was not from the last concerto, because a the end of the show when he plays this cante, the man whos was in charge of the recording did not record it ( Dinu was suppose to play a valse from Chopin but was too exhausted). This was record some years before Dinu died. Anyway, thisis just beauty et perfection..voice of angels...

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  • Definitia sonora a dragostei.

  • Mare interpret ! numai suflet si sensibilitate ! Pacat ca a murit la numai 33 de ani, in plina tinerete creatoare.

  • Dinu Lipatti plays sublimely. There is no other one like him. The ultimate piano player.

  • Una versiòn que siempre me emociona hasta las lagimas! gran musico Dinu Lipatti

  • Thanks so much for posting this! To me, this is the essence of Bach: he's an eternal flame burning in the darkness, a flame of joy and beauty that never goes out. May we always have his extraordinary music, as well as performers of great genius like Dinu Lipatti. Best, M.R.

  • Lipatti is like a strong drug. If you try it once you become addicted for life.

  • grandissimo,peccato la sua morte precoce,sono incantata dalla sua musica

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  • @Sylvain894 oui il etait roumain ,jusqu'a 33 

  • @love5burgin Merci d'utiliser le Francais, moins sauvage que les chatiements employés en Anglais commun !!

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  • @love5burgin You are right. Then, he became a treasure of the World.

  • I had some trouble with this video length !

  • Strikingly Beautiful!

  • I fondly remember my first hearing this recording 40 years ago. As a keyboard player, I have never forgotten how it changed my understanding of musical performance. 

  • im proud to be a romanian citizen

  • one of the important events of my childhood is when my uncle and aunt drove over, and he palyed ( on the Ibach upright ) this piece with considerable skill and feeling .

    Aftre that I could be proud of my family.... I mean what he did was surprise , and unite us on Xmas eve . Ever after I wonder how much rehearsing he had done. I´ll never know.....

  • Mozart may bring healing to a broken heart, but Bach(&Lipatti) can make a broken heart forget itself altogether. For one long, heavenly instant...

  • he played absolutely ahead of his time, absolutely perfect tempi

  • Very good romanian teacher. I'm proud to be romanian.

  • @dbroasca Dinu was a genial pianist. He was not only a teacher but one of the young best pianist in music history.

  • great!!! I love lipatti....

  • Never to say about this performance. So it seems. But have you ever heard Michael Jackson on "Will you be there"? That`s one line, one feeling! Can`t expöain it, but it`s a miracle. Wondeerful and unconsciouness!

  • @KERNWER

    Bernstein once said: "There is only good or bad music!" Nevertheless I'm a little offended to read MJ along with J.S.Bach!

    Bach, Mozart and other genius have passed the test of times. I'm quite sure Lipatti wil pass this test too. (With MJ I'm not so positive ...) Thanks to Fe.Mendelssohn we can all listen to the work of J.S.Bach! :D

  • すばらしいなあ。

  • A finer pianist never lived

  • Thank you for the beautiful feedback

  • @Zalmoxe and your beautiful phrase of 'proud to be human when listening to him':

    'Filled with joy and pride, we come to believe we have created what we have only heard.'

    -Longinus

  • Awesome

  • Alex, ich danke dir. Das ist einfach schön. Jesus, Du lieber Sohn und Mensch und Bruder und Freund und ganz lieber (Herr) und Heiland und Helfer und Erretter, und überhaupt, Du ganz lieber DU. Weg, Wahrheit, Leben, niemand kommt zum Vater als nur durch mich. Durch dich. Du, Licht, Guter Hirte, Auferstehung, Leben, LIEBE, Vergebung der, ALLLER unserer Sünden, Du, meine, unsere Sünde, DU, meine, unsere Gerechtigkeit, du - oh Jesum, du, am Kreuz auf Golgatha, Jesaja 53, ... oh Herzensbrecher

  • Can anyone please tell me where I can find the tabs for this? I would be very thankful! ;)

  • goodbye sweet dinu, you are the pianist of my life

  • me encanta...me tocó profundamente en mi corazon...es increible!

  • ....Immortale!

  • so wonderful, Lipatti is immortal with this very piece. thank you for posting it! ***************

  • Thanks to Myra Hess also who did this arrangement which is perfect. She did play it very well too.

  • This BWV 147 record is the best I have ever heard. Deference to Dinu Lipatti.

  • some kinds of GOD

  • fuck god only human being

  • God, thanks for the, althoug short, time that you give him to be with us.

  • This is one of the world's greatest pianists and a great human being.

  • I adore this version of cantata. Lipatti played with a tenderness and mastership.

    Спасибо!

  • beatiful

  • Danke!

  • Dinu Lipatti was a great Pianisi roman. He composed music for piano, was a professor at the Conservatory of Geneva, remains a great pianist and even if it disappeared from an early age so remains in the heart of music lovers who have had the opportunity to listen to wonderful concerts.

  • yes Lipatti will never be forgotten as his interpretations are the best existing, he couldn t record a lot but what is left for us to listen is pure and perfect. A musican with heart will always to this...

  • @rzmrdbrcn Of Course. Dinu has been a legendary pianist even if he died too early!!! I put him in my best five ever.

  • @iguarni Thank you for the beautiful feedback.

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  • excellent played - the cantus firmus is so clear, all his play is very structured but also sensitive....wonderful

  • So...

    Close your eyes

  • i have to play this song for my school band its a very beutiful song...

  • No analysis needed here. Just sublime! Thanks for posting.

  • Is this from Lupatti's final performance in '50?

  • I*m also interested in this question - but I think, it's not the last concert - compare the data with Wikipedia.

    I feel a big sensation listening to this - the compositor and the player were kongenial.

    The fact that Lipatti was in his last days/months, knowing about his death still makes the piece very special - for Lipatti and for the listener

  • It's t the last concert .He died on December 2 at the age of 33 years. It was a great pianist

  • Unfortinatly no my dear. Fot the good reason that when he plaid it at the end of the performance , the man who was in charged off the recording had forgoten to record it. So that's why the last piece of Dinu's last show is lost for ever..

  • bonjour

  • Dios vio que el hombre estaba triste y dijo "hagase la música del alma", y entonces apareció Bach. Es algo tan exquisito esto.Dios mío, se puede llorar de tanta felicidad.Muchas gracias, amigo, por compartir esto.Que Dios te bendiga

    Juan de Argentina

  • Y Dios dijo, me gusta la música, yo también haré música. Y El Señor se reencarnó en Mozart

  • I recall God telling the person who made this video to use the 4 candles as they were a representation of Him in some manner and on some level...

    As far as 'End of Evangelion,' I do wonder if this similar song is signaling the 'End of Evangelism' and thus the return of Christ would be next...

  • Esto trasciende toda division entre los hombres, toda religión y todo sectarismo, todo credo, toda falta de fe en la Humanidad. Esto es musica, es alma, es la demostracion mas cabal de que somos capaces de tocar el cielo con las manos, de que somos capaces de volar.

  • Every time i hear this, i could cry tears...

    Every emotion i hide, will come to my mind...

  • Makes me think of a child singing at times. There's something terribly undisguised about the articulation of the voices in this, definitely faithful to its choral origins.

  • no crap its was wrote be be used in churches

  • you are missing my point and i wish you better aim from now on.

    I am talking about how confidently lipatti handles the melody. when you hear a grown up sing they will start to add vibrato, shape the phrase, with a more or less pleasing result, but either way to show their awareness of the technical qualities of the music. again, it can be good or bad. it's the same....

  • ...with pianists and the use of rubato or affected dynamics. the point is to develop the phrase but needless complication can be the result. pretty much all pianists are occasionally guilty of this as you need a god-like personality to do it all right.

  • End of Evangelion

  • Lol. But End of Evangelion's version was much slower, wasn't it? To me it makes a big difference, and suggests a different kind of mood.

  • a mi Bach no deja de impresionarme, la pasión según san mateo y san juan, air, fuga en re menor, sus nocturnos, esta obra maravillosa, es definitivamente el mayor genio con que ha contado la música, el mayor.

  • orgasm

  • Did you mean humility and devotion?

  • For too little time GOD leave Dinu on earth. almost 60 years, Dinu playing in the sky for HIM, for the souls, for the angels...

  • Best performance ever. Even better than the own Myra Hess.

  • Νομίζω πως αν τον άκουγε ο Μπαχ θα χαμογελούσε πολύ ευχαριστημένος...

    Τυχεροί είμαστε που μπορούμε να τον ακούμε.

    Ο Απόλλων και ο Ορφέας ας τον προσέχουν εκει που βρίσκεται τωρα.

  • ine alithea - simphonw me sena ... enas germanos pou aresi bach ke tin ellada.

  • LIPATTI is the best.

    Do you know if he was jewish?

  • No he wasn't jewish. But does that play any role? He was a great musician.

  • @pouchichi

    no , he was not , he was Eastern Orthodx Christian , baptized by another great Romanian musician , George Enescu

  • this is real Bach.

    thak you.

  • True Music ... True Master . ..

  • May sound creepy, but I want "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" BWV 147 to be played at my funeral. :-)

  • i have listen to Gould's Goldberg, Rachmaninov's Chopin Nocturne, this piece played by Bronfman (Live)....But only this clip can brought me tears...the first to have tears after listening music in youtube....Lipatti is a true Master, everything sounds so simple, there are no other reasons except he is part of music....

  • >>there are no other reasons except he is part of music....

    well said. gould's variations on the other hand fill me with energy and enthusiasm. i would say both were part of music.

  • If Menuhin says "manifestation of a spiritual realm, resistant to all pain

    and suffering", there can't be much more to say.. indeed a master..

  • I quite agree with Poulenc's summation of Mr. Lipatti. Is this not divine? There is no trifling showmanship, or ill-advised romanticizing about these performances...such excellent hierachizing of the accompanying melodies to the dominant, melodic ones. The full extent of his skill is offered to the work so that its oft-hidden spirit actually begins to soar over its usually blinding precision and patterning. What a gift! Thank you so much for posting!

  • Im left without words after hearing the 2nd half of this piece. It is enticing.

  • this is the end of emotion. I´m so tierd...... and so fatigue !

    SORRY FOR MY ESPERANTO

    Go for the Genious !

  • Excepţională interpretare, una din cele mai bune la pian!

  • qué sonidazos!

  • Wunderbar!!!

  • some people might hate me for saying this,

    but lipatti's heavenly performance reminds me

    very much of richter's bach interpretations of some of the wtc preludes and fugues. the same wonderful singing tone, the unhurried contemplative pace, the complete lack of selfish technical display, but rather the pianist's complete devotion to the purity of the music.

  • Dinu Lipatti's the best romania player !

  • No, I hate this not. This is the true. Lipatti is the modern pianist of piano history with Richter, Pollini ecc. Play the piano like God if He compose music.

  • I just saw your comment and am pleased to note the similarity of our observations, made completely independently of each other.

  • Somebody asked on what instument was played this. It was on a Steinway, in the last concerto he performed in Besancon. This was actually the very last piece he played on stage.

  • This is a studio recording made several months before his last recital. In a tragic twist of fate, the man responsible for the recording of his last recital forgot to turn the recorder back on when he played this as an encore. The loss is posterity's....

  • My goodness... never knew that.. How sad.. Love Dinu Lipatti. He is an inspiration to us all.

  • how do you know that? i'm asking because i'm looking for a bio about lipatti but never found one!

  • if interst over dinu lipatti there is a new very good compil. nox possible to have is a box cd of seven for here in bel 21euro

    i learned piano and i could say that dinu for is one of the best if you like that piano have or re touché than now that period was marv"ellous if you think that dinu was suppoted nby friends and mostly by violonist yehudi menuhin due his severe sickness dinu was under cortisone

    period of arthur rubinstein, clara haskil,  mandowskya Wi

  • Simply unique!

  • Once again Lipatti demonstrating the great pianist he was. Whatever Lipatti plays is very well played. Very few pianists have this versatility

  • Si Dieu existe, il doit s'extasier devant tant de beauté! Merci Alex!

  • this only can playeyd by someone who´se going to die. This is transcendential and the most beautiful interpretation ever. Long life the mind.

  • No comment.

  • the only reason that i will be sad if i'll die is that i could not listen to Lipatti interpretations.

  • ati incercat mormon tabernacle choir?

    tot asa, cineva zicea ca e mandru sa fie mormon, dar ei cantau haendel.

    n-are a face, muzica buna n-are nationalitate.

    (adica toate imnurile nationale sunt de kk? hmmm...)

  • Ascultati in liniste! Merita efortul!

  • What can I say beyond thank you, for posting this? Lipatti's rendition of these pieces is unlike anything I've ever heard.

    Heavenly indeed!

  • Excellentissime version, ce doit être la transcription de Myra HESS (si je ne me trompe pas ).Le géni à l'état pur : une version claire, simple sans artifice mais que c'est beau...

  • we love you dear Lipatti.....

  • as a young child i often listened to this before i fell asleep. it brought tears to my eyes and it still does now.

  • You took those words from my mouth...

  • The performance is wonderful (as usual) but there's something wrong with the recording.

  • i bow to master lipatti..Simple excelence

  • i'm proud to be roumanian when listening to him

  • I'm proud to be human when listening to him!

    Actually, I think pride has nothing to do with it. I think I'm just happy being alive and able to enjoy such magnificent works...

  • ce are una cu alta ?

    si eu sint mindru cind aud Brahms ca mama era sasoaica !

  • Dinu a fost un geniu , o valoare universala

  • Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude! Throughout all ages, this piece by Bach is, and shall remain, a priceless hymn of praise. Thank you for this fine piano interpretation.

    /r/

  • cute vid

  • Wonderful music and interpretation

  • im learning on Dinu Lipatti high school and i'm glad

  • How perfect

  • lipatti is god

  • It sounds like an organ! The sound and voicing is remarkable!!!

  • Dios nos tiene en cuenta siempre, por eso nos envió interpretes como Dinu lipatti, martha argerich, franz Listz,yehudi menuhin, heifetz... y creadores como Bach,Mozart, Pachelbel, Mendehlson,Bramhs,...

    Ellos vinieron, crearon , nos ayudaron a sobrevivir a tantas adversidades con su mùsica que el mundo sin ellos hubiera sido tan enormemente gris.Gracias, Dios por mandarnos al mundo mùsicos tan caros a nuestro espiritu,Y gracias tb a ALEX por compartir

  • niewielu jest dzisiaj pianistów którzy potrafią tak odzwierciedlić klimat baroku w muzyce Bacha jak czynił to lipatti,dziękuję Ci Dinu za tak wspaniałą muzyczną przygodę

  • Wonderful Lipatti!Thanks for this video. There's an unknown pianist who playes Bach-Kempff Siciliana very well. I think he merits.(please see him on seven65's channel).

  • Lipatti was one of great pianist of the last century, the best ever on Bach I think, sadly I think sometime people forget him (like Colomon Cutner) , sublime.

    And this is a mono recording.

  • Para los que entieden español, este fragmento de Julio Cortázar: "Mientras tanto, había muerto en París Dinu Lipatti, demostrando una vez más la inexistencia de Dios o su incurable frivolidad" (Rayuela).

  • Lipatti, a pianist's pianist. The voicing are perfect.

    He is performing on a remarkable instrument.

    Is it a Pleyel? Anybody know?

  • Ce pianiste est génial dans tout ce qu' il touche !

    chacun de ces enregistrements est ma référence absolue

  • sounds like unacorda was on throughout(if thats how u spell it)

  • lipatti reconsidered

  • It is just peace and beauty, it was the same in the past, years before I was born as it is now or in the future, when I will join him in heaven, or hell, it does not matter where as long as I will still hear him playing :)

  • Lipatti in the hell? LOL

  • A genius, I hope God listen to him when he play in heaven.

  • Too bad there isn't a better audio quality of that legendary last performance.

  • This prelude was arranged for piano by Myra Hess. Wonderful performance of Lipatti... this was part of his last performance, which he played in Becancon in 1950, less than 3 months before his death. At the time of the recital, he was so exhausted by illness, that he could not play the Chopin waltz no. 2, one of the 14 waltzes scheduled for that evening; instead, he gave this breathtaking interpretation of one of the most divine cantatas in history.

  • Yes and No. The cantata was played as encore in Besançon and not recorded. This is perhaps the studio recording of 1950 in Genava.The sound is like siciliano.

  • I know that, of course. What I meant was that this piece was part of his last performance, not that it was recorded on that particular occasion.

  • If true music can only be made of the soal, what do the birds sing?

  • birds dont really "sing" what you hear is a defence mechanism to protect their next .. killa how you give death stares .. yeah thats what birds are doing .. its not polite to relate a song as beautiful as this to birds fighting ... you make baby jesu cry :'(

  • That's nice. I kinda meant that in sortof a poetic way. But nice explanation.

    Big fan of bach.

  • For many genious composers who were inspired by them, birds do sing.

  • Thank you! haha.

  • Tears for such sublime music..........

    Why did he have to die so young........

  • Beyond words! Thanks for sharing.

  • In a word; Magnificant. Thanks for posting

  • Lipatti was romanian...

  • IS ROMANIAN !

  • cu totii stim asta! mai moale cu patriotismul de doi lei..... nemtii nu se apuca sa lase mesaje gen "e german!" pe pisele lui Bach sau Beethoven....

  • nu ma refeream la asta, vroiam doar sa accentuez faptul ca dinu lipatti nu a fost, ci este.

  • J ai entendu beaucoup de versions de cette cantate:au piano,au violon,avec orchestre,avec une chanteuse..mais aucune n approche celle de Lipatti.Son piano se suffit a lui meme,seul le piano de Lipatti semble avoir compris la purete de la musique de Bach.Ce qui confirme qu une partition sublime n est rien sans un un grand interprete.Le touché et la sensibilité de Lipatti sont uniques,on atteint le divin...

  • For my taste, the best piano player. Period.

  • Lipatti Lipatti Lipatti...Quand il joue Bach on dirait un ange,il est au paradis maintenant...Il nous reste sa musique mais n est elle pas hors de notre portee...Si le divin existe vraiment n est ce pas Dinu Lipatti jouant cette cantate de Bach(je crois que c est Goethe qui disait de Bach "entretient de Dieu avec lui meme juste avant la creation")...Tout est dit...Ecouter et reecouter Lipatti...

  • Coincido plenamente contigo, amigo.Lipatti transcribió en el piano el alma de Bach.Qué pena su muerte tan prematura

  • Magnificent! Thanks for sharing.

  • Gorgeous! Bravo! TY

  • Grazie per aver condiviso una cosa così bella.

  • If I would have had my way, this guy would have lived until he was 80.