A garden party with Karajan, Furtwängler, Lipatti and friends

A garden party with Karajan, Furtwängler, Lipatti and friends

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

October 05, 2024

Mark Ainley from the Piano Files has posted the only known video of Dinu Lipatti to YouTube. It’s a private, silent film from the 1947 Lucerne festival and it features luminaries of those times.

The film was shot by the Lucerne lawyer Walter Strebi and conserved by his daughter, Ursula Jones.

The silent film starts here at 48:40.

Comments

  • Jobim75 says:

    Incredible document… Karajan and Furtwangler at the same party?!

  • christopher Breunig says:

    Good to see all these figures from the past.Thanks for finding.

  • David A. Boxwell says:

    For some of the guests, a festive de-Nazification party!

  • Nick2 says:

    Wonderful to see the glorious Maria Stader whose lack of height (around 1’44m) meant her career was confined mostly to recordings, many with Fricsay.

  • Mark Mortimer says:

    I’ve seen this before- great footage. Apart from being one the greatest pianists in history- Lipatti looks like a warm & friendly human being. Making his early passing & quasi Schubertian fate- all the more tragic.

  • Tom says:

    Enrico Mainardi at 49:21?

  • Paul Capon says:

    Oh to be a fly on the wall during some of those conversations would have been incredibly interesting.

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