Appreciation: Remembering the incomparable pianist Radu Lupu and his legacy of brilliant work
I don't know how Radu Lupu did it. No one else does either. But I've got a couple of theories.
The incomparable Romanian pianist, who died April 17, was admired not only by a large public he kept enthralled but also by the leading pianists of his day, even legendary ones such as Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and Murray Perahia. On the occasion of Lupu's 70th birthday in 2015, pianist Kirill Gerstein described Lupu in a New York Review of Books tribute as "far more
