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...In essence, his Schubert is full-on Romanticism, where others keep some degree of classical balance (try Maurizio Pollini’s strict classicism, Mitsuko Uchida’s light touch or Radu Lupu’s flowing lyricism...
...Lupu recast Schumann’s capricious lines as a reverie in myriad shades of mezzo-piano....
...Winners of the triennial international contest — arguably the world’s most coveted for young pianists — have included Romanian Radu Lupu (now 70), and Russian Ilya Itin....
...At Leeds, names as eminent as Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Andras Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida emerged back in the 1970s....
...The six Moments musicaux, D.780, of Schubert were nicely detailed, though they missed the self-communing intimacy that we might have heard from, say, Radu Lupu or Piotr Anderszewski....
...She is at her most persuasive in the central movements of D845 and the Scherzo of D960 – without finding the depth and range that make Radu Lupu (Decca) supreme in this repertoire....
...Players can do this through their charismatic artistry (Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu), intellectual grit (Christian Zacharias, Maurizio Pollini), carefully cultivated eccentricity (Piotr Anderszewski...
...Divisions among the coalition parties are likely to increase prior to new elections, with Vlad Filat, the prime minister, expected to run for president against Marian Lupu, a former communist who defected...
...It is rather a “fine-tuning of those articles that step on each other’s toes”, said Marian Lupu, president of the Democrat party in Moldova, one of the members of the ruling alliance....
...The Alliance had been hoping to entice eight Communist MPs to back Mr Lupu....
...Mr Lupu, an urbane 43-year-old, now appears to hold the key to the formation of a broad coalition....
...Mr Lupu has ruled out going into a two-party coalition with the Communists....
...Mark Tkachiuk, an adviser to Mr Voronin, said Mr Lupu’s departure was a “hysterical” reaction to Mr Lupu’s not being nominated for president....
...Mr Lupu criticised the Communist leadership saying: “There need to be a number of changes to the party, in its behaviour and values. It needs to become more democratic.”...
...The parties now hope to tempt eight communist MPs to cross the floor in support of Marian Lupu, leader of the Democratic party, who was leader of the communist party’s reformist wing until he fell out with...
...Mr Lupu said police had reacted emotionally to the injuries sustained by their colleagues. “They visited their colleagues in hospital, some 200 of them, and saw how badly injured they were.”...
...The opposition liberal parties, reinforced by the defection from the Communists of Marian Lupu, the former parliamentary speaker, are generally more pro-west than the Communists....
...That was compounded by the defection of Marian Lupu, the leading reformer in the party, to lead the centrist Democrat party....
...Marian Lupu, parliament’s president and an MP for the Communist party that won a majority in Sunday’s elections, said the violence was proof that the students who had gathered in peaceful protest at the...
...Generous, relaxed and authoritative, Lupu stressed lyricism over drama at the keyboard, also Gemütlichkeit over accuracy....
...As the centrepiece of the programme, Radu Lupu played Schumann’s Piano Concerto – the one work that did not feature back in 1972 – and eccentricity intruded....
...Marian Lupu, speaker of the Moldovan parliament, says: “The general atmosphere is very bad, so I don’t see a big chance of a settlement.”...
...can really do – he chose Busoni’s reworking of the cadenzas bolstered by extra pizzazz – were held in check and his effortlessly fluent playing was entirely satisfying on its own terms, as long as Radu Lupu...
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