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Seymour Lipkin
12+ albums
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Seymour Lipkin (May 14, 1927 - November 16, 2015) was an American pianist and conductor widely admired in both roles for his acute, deliberately unflashy musicianship. Seymour Lipkin came to wide public attention in 1948 when, at 20, he won first prize in the Rachmaninoff Fund Piano Contest, a nationwide competition held in New York. He went on to play on the world’s foremost recital stages and with the world’s most eminent orchestras. He interrupted that career for a life of conducting in the 1970s and ’80s, returning to the piano in the ’90s for a critically acclaimed second act. He was also a longtime faculty member of the Juilliard School in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As both pianist and conductor, reviewers agreed, Mr. Lipkin made music with a conspicuous absence of the dazzle, bathos and schmaltz that are the stock in trade of many instrumentalists. “There is no blurring in Lipkin’s approach,” The Boston Globe wrote in 1996, reviewing a Beethoven recital. “The pianist plays with the structural clarity of an architect’s drawing; the drama comes from the interplay of musical ideas, not from emotional displays.” Throughout his work, Mr. Lipkin was praised by critics for his keen sensitivity — a “moral responsibility,” he called it — to the composer’s intent; his sculptural finesse in shaping a musical line; and his vast knowledge of the musical literature. He was often described as a Beethoven specialist, but his pianistic compass rang
top songs
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Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: I. Allegro
922Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathetique", Op. 13: I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
753Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: IV. Prestissimo
694Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: II. Adagio
655Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: III. Menuetto - Allegretto
626Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3: I. Allegro con brio
597Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathetique", Op. 13: II. Adagio cantabile
548Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3: II. Adagio
549Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1: I. Allegro molto e con brio
5410Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2: II. Largo Appassionato
53albums
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume One: Sonatas 1-10
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
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Schubert: Complete Sonatas and Other Major Works for Piano - Over 400 Minutes of Great Music
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
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Live at the Gardner Museum's Tapestry Room
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Music from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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Beeethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 30, 6 - Lipkin
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The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas
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Schubert: Complete Sonatas and Other Major Works for Piano - Over 400 Minutes of Great Musi
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Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas
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Beethoven The Complete Sonatas v.2 Sonatas 11-22