拉度·鲁普,罗马尼亚钢琴家,6岁学琴,12岁登台演奏,他的钢琴老师穆济切斯库也是李帕蒂的老师。1963年获奖学金到莫斯科音乐学院深造,在涅高兹的大师班上学习。1966年获克莱本国际比赛奖,1967年获埃乃斯库比赛奖,1969年又获利兹国际比赛奖。鲁普的演奏追求音的微妙与流畅,在微妙的音中追求透明的阴影感,追求强音及它所造成的鲜明的明暗效果,强调动态与幅度。鲁普演奏的舒伯特、布拉姆斯及戈尔德堡合作的莫扎特小提琴奏鸣曲最具特色。
鲁普弹琴不用钢琴椅,而是用有椅子背的平常家用椅,显示出他对钢琴演奏的特异观念。时时把背部在椅背上会违反一般人对发出良好音色的认知:因为如果把背靠在椅背上,那么手臂重量就会移向椅子而不是琴键上。鲁普这个习惯不是故意作怪,也不是因为他的背有问题,而是得自他追寻创造特殊音色的研究心得,结果是,也演奏的音量并不特别大,但另一方面,他音色的细微变化却特别丰富,以致他可以创作出如光影变幻般的明暗对比。他就像一个画家把调色盘上的大红、大蓝、大紫等鲜艳色调予以舍弃,却精心调制出无限多种层次的黄、绿、褐色调。第一次听他演奏的听众若不是大吃一惊,就是被强烈吸引而心荡神驰。
Radu Lupu is firmly established as one of the most important musicians of his generation and is widely acknowledged as a leading interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert. Since winning the prestigious Van Cliburn (1966) and Leeds Piano Competitions (1969), Mr. Lupu has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and the United States. He has appeared many times with the Berlin Philharmonic since his debut with that orchestra at the 1978 Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan, and with the Vienna Philharmonic, including the opening concert of the 1986 Salzburg Festival under Riccardo Muti. He is also a frequent visitor to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and all of the major London orchestras. He has played at most notable music festivals and has been a regular guest at the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals.
Radu Lupu’s first major American appearances were in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim in New York and with the Chicago Symphony led by Carlo Maria Giulini. Concerts with the New York Philharmonic soon followed and Mr. Lupu has since appeared with all of the foremost American orchestras.
In the 2013/14 season Mr. Lupu's concerto engagements will include the Bournemouth Symphony, Flanders Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Montreal Symphony, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Gurzenich Orchestra Koln, Zurich Tonhalle, Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Lausanne Chamber. He will undertake his eleventh tour of Japan, and conclude his cycle of the Beethoven Piano Concertos at the new concert hall in Helsinki with the Finnish Chamber Orchestra (Jukka-Pekka Saraste). In addition, he will be Artist in Residence with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
Mr. Lupu has made more than 20 recordings for London/Decca, including the complete Beethoven concertos with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, the complete Mozart violin and piano sonatas with Szymon Goldberg, Grieg and Schumann Concertos, Debussy and Franck Violin and Piano Sonatas with Kyung Wha Chung, and numerous solo recordings of Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. His most recent London/Decca releases are of Schubert’s Sonatas, D. 960 and 664, which won a Grammy® Award in 1995, and of Schumann’s “Kinderszenen,” “Kreisleriana” and “Humoresque,” which won an Edison Award in 1995. He has also made two records with pianist Murray Perahia (Sony Classical) and two albums of Schubert Lieder with soprano Barbara Hendricks (EMI). In 1998, for Teldec, he joined Daniel Barenboim for a disc of Schubert works for piano, four hands. In 2001 Decca re-released a 2-CD set of Schubert’s music for violin and piano, featuring Mr. Lupu together with Szymon Goldberg.
Born in Romania in l945, Mr. Lupu began studying the piano at the age of 6 with Lia Busuioseanu. He made his public debut with a complete program of his own music at l2, continuing his studies for several years with Florica Muzicescu and Cella Delavrance. In l96l he won a scholarship to the Moscow State Conservatory where he studied with Galina Eghyazarova, Heinrich Neuhaus and his son, Stanislav Neuhaus. During his seven years at the Moscow Conservatory he won first prize in the l967 Enescu International Competition in addition to the Van Cliburn and Leeds International competitions. In 1989 and again in 2006, he was awarded the prestigious “Abbiati” prize given by the Italian Critics’ Association. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Premio Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli award.