Special offer. Moura Lympany: The complete HMV recordings 1947 -1952
The Matthay School Volume 5
Moura Lympany (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Herbert Menges, Walter Susskind
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Re-issue of the Month
Dame Moura's virtuosity quietly stuns. Her Mendelssohn, Liszt and Litolff are fleet and joyful; Granados's The Maiden and the Nightingale and Debussy's Clair de lune sing from the heart.
Special offer. Moura Lympany: The complete HMV recordings 1947 -1952
The Matthay School Volume 5
Moura Lympany (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Herbert Menges, Walter Susskind
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Re-issue of the Month
Dame Moura's virtuosity quietly stuns. Her Mendelssohn, Liszt and Litolff are fleet and joyful; Granados's The Maiden and the Nightingale and Debussy's Clair de lune sing from the heart.
About
MOURA LYMPANY (1916–2005) was the last of the major Matthay pupils and she started working with him in 1937 when he was already 79. In 1938 she shot to international fame when she came second to Emil Gilels in the Queen Elisabeth competition. A brilliant technician, she followed in the footsteps of Scharrer and Joyce, though was perhaps temperamentally cooler that either.
Initially, she specialised in major works of the romantic and Russian repertoire and made the first complete recording of the Rachmaninov preludes (for Decca) in the 1940’s. She also gave the western premiere of Khachaturian piano concerto and subsequently recorded it; along with the Rachmaninov 2nd and 3rd concertos it become one of her signature works. The HMV recordings presented here, made before she returned to recording for Decca again in the later 1950’s, emphasize her virtuoso credentials and feature many of the piano’s most fearsome warhorses. This is repertoire she excelled in and her performances of, for example, Feux follets, or the toccatas of Ravel and Prokofiev, have rarely been equalled.
Contents and tracklist
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 3 November 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 21 March 1950
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 28 November 1950
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 19 December 1947
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 3 November 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 26 April 1949
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 22 December 1947
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 26 Arpil 1949
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 16 June 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 2 November 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 26 April 1949
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 3 November 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 3 November 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 12 December 1950
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Recorded: 12 December 1950
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Rafael Kubelik
- Recorded: 3 October 1948
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Herbert Menges
- Recorded: 3 June 1952
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Walter Susskind
- Recorded: 20 June 1949
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Walter Susskind
- Recorded: 20 June 1949
- Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Walter Susskind
- Recorded: 20 April 1948
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2013Re-issue of the Month
October 2013
Dame Moura's virtuosity quietly stuns. Her Mendelssohn, Liszt and Litolff are fleet and joyful; Granados's The Maiden and the Nightingale and Debussy's Clair de lune sing from the heart.
2nd October 2013
The highlight of this collection is the Schumann Symphonic Etudes...Each of the variations is well-characterised. There is drama and energy on the one hand, and lyricism and richness of expression on the other, with superb attention to detail...This is an impressive tribute to a fine British pianist.
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