Comments on: Lipkin’s Schubert Daguerreotype at Gardner Museum http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/01/lipkin%e2%80%99s-schubert-daguerreotype-at-gardner-museum/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Aaron http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/01/lipkin%e2%80%99s-schubert-daguerreotype-at-gardner-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Aaron Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:28:03 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=1791#comment-898 Lipkin's ppp's would have been more exciting had he not skipped so many notes upon playing them. Honestly, I also found his playing lacking in articulation. To top it off, there were just too many wrong notes and even one improvised elision where a cadence was mis-played. I'm sorry, but as wonderful as Lipkin may have been to hear in his heyday, his chops are beyond repair, and his control is all but gone. I left after the first Sonata. Lipkin’s ppp’s would have been more exciting had he not skipped so many notes upon playing them. Honestly, I also found his playing lacking in articulation. To top it off, there were just too many wrong notes and even one improvised elision where a cadence was mis-played.

I’m sorry, but as wonderful as Lipkin may have been to hear in his heyday, his chops are beyond repair, and his control is all but gone. I left after the first Sonata.

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