Schubert’s privileged interpreter and the great German romantic repertoire, of which he engraved reference versions for DECCA, the capital pianist died at the age of 76 in Lausanne (Switzerland).
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Radu Lupu had already disappeared for a few years concert halls but his aura remains: the Romanian pianist died on April 18th in Lausanne (Switzerland), where he lived, at the age of 76, a suites of A long illness. The man was part of this race of discrete giants, each concert holds both surprise, mystery and miracle. How to forget for example this third concerto de Beethoven, one of its favorite composers, played with the Lyon National Orchestra in June 2018 under the direction of the young Omer Meir Wellber? The musician with white beard, coal eyes and figure of wise to the Brahmsian build, still bruised by an unfortunate fall in his home, stood at the bottom of the Semppernelle Chair on file he was experiencing because of old problems of back, had tense his arms in front of him, met the keyboard, all without a look for the public.
Radu Lupu was alone in the world with music. No willingness to play, let alone interpret. A game that seemed to challenge spatiotemporal, lightweight, homogeneous laws on all the teases, the digital aspect disappearing into a Legato as nestled in the palm. No matter or measuring bar to interrupt the trajectory to the absolute which absorbed it entirely, aquarellist with impalpable elegance, whose snacks to the musical tissue reminded from time to time that the shaman was also a man. Privileging intimate climates and infinite sweetness, user of an inimitable science of gray – from velvety darkness to the subdued light of modesty, of the aging shadow with angel feather clarity – did not prevent lupu from Sometimes snatch screams to music.
by Schubert, which he had made his land of election, we sometimes prayed to recognize the contours so familiar when they are drawn by other talented pianists, less personal. He went into abscissa and orders known to him alone. No gap from elbows, no bust bending. In this body crossed with music, the trajectory of his art was leaving under the feet, curved in the bow of the body, ended in the tender pulp of the keyboard: the perfect orb of homo pianisticus.
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Radu Lupu was born on November 30, 1945 in a Jewish family of Galati, in Romania. First piano classes at 6 years old with Lia Busuioceanu. First public concert at 12 years with pieces of its own composition. Before the entrance to the Conservatoire de Bucharest, where he became the pupil of Florica Musicescu (which was also the professor of Greater Dinu Lipatti) and Cella Delavrancea. In 1961, a scholarship sends him to improve the prestigious Conservatory Tchaikovsky of Moscow. There will be seven years ago with the famous Heinrich Neuhaus pedagogue, mentor of countless virtuosos, such as Emil Gilels, Elisso Virsaladze, Sviatoslav Richter.
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