Dinu Lipatti plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, KV 467 on his last recital with orchestra
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
August 23, 1950

00:00 Allegro maestoso Cadenza (by Dinu Lipatti) Tempo I
15:15 Andante
22:29 Allegro vivace assai Cadenza (by Lipatti) Tempo I


"DINU LIPATTI was a very ill man when he made his last appearance with orchestra on the 23rd August 1950 at the Luserne Festival. Only four people were present at the morning rehearsal; his wife, Artur Schnabel, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and I (Walter Legge).

Karajan had already rehearsed the orchestral part on the previous day. Lipatti played the concerto through oncce only, omitting the cadenzas.

The cencert was broadcast, but owing to the rules of the Swiss Musicians Union, the tapes were destroyed three weeks after the transmission. For eight years, Madame Lipatti and I searched Europe in the hope of finding a recording taken from the air by an amateur. In 1959, two materialized in one week, both recorded by amateurs, one in Zürich and the other in Copenhagen. Angel's engineers in London worked for a year to produce from the better of these primitive originals the most acceptable sound"
WALTER LEGGE

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