Dinu Lipatti: The Hunt for Lost Recordings
Dinu Lipatti: The Hunt for Lost Recordings

Summary/Abstract: In this article, Mark Ainley summarizes some key findings of his 30 years of research into the recordings of the fabled Romanian pianist-composer Dinu Lipatti. As a teen in the 1980s, Ainley began his task of locating unknown performances of the pianist by writing to international archives. Over the years, through a helpful network of dedicated friends of the pianist and with the support passionate collectors and individuals in the recording industry, Ainley was able to slowly unearth precious one-of-a-kind recordings of the great Lipatti that had laid dormant since the pianist’s death in 1950 and arrange for most of them to be published.

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