5 JANUARY 1951, Page 18

CHAMBER Music.—Dinu Lipatti's recording of all Chopin's waltzes (Col.) proved

to be his swan-song, and these records will provide a fitting memorial for a pianist who, though young, was already in the very front rank of his profession. Backhaus records Beethoven's op. 109 for Decca and Ossy Renardy Bach's C major unaccompanied violin suite, very finely played but demanding the old loose bow which can deal properly with the double-stopped passages. For H.M.V. Fournier and Schnabel play Beethoven's *cello sonata op. 102. no. 1. spoiled by a bad surface in many -places. Most attractive is Mozart's Adagio for wind quartet (K.440 Al played by the London Baroque Ensemble under Karl