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| | Arts | Radu Lupu |
 | | Here, and in the Humoreske Op 20, Lupu took care to highlight the harmonies and, in particular, to sustain the emotional tension of the last bars of each piece so that it coalesced with the next, the transition from one to the other sometimes almost imperceptible. |
| | Lupu seemed to play down the customary emphasis on Schumann's narrative allusions, instead bringing a profound insight into the compositional process, the debt to Bach emerging clearly, as did the often idiosyncratic rhythmic complexities. |
| | Now Lupu's sound was more robust, the cast of the phrasing so deliberate as to be almost rhetorical. |
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