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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:

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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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

Fantasie-impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. 66
Track length4:58
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Thema. Andante
Track length1:29
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 1, Un poco più vivo
Track length1:23
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 2, Marcato il canto
Track length1:44
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Vivace
Track length0:56
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 3
Track length0:41
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 4, Scherzando
Track length1:00
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 5, Agitato
Track length0:55
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 6, Allegro molto
Track length0:44
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 7, Sempre marcatissimo
Track length1:17
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Presto possibile
Track length0:40
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 8, Allegro
Track length0:38
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Var. 9
Track length2:05
Symphonic Études, Op. 13: Finale. Allegro brillante
Track length6:17
Waldszenen, Op. 82: No. 7, Vogel als Prophet
Track length3:28
28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Var. 3,
Track length9:41
3 Intermezzos, Op. 117: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
Track length4:56
12 Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: No. 5 in B-Flat Major "Feux follets"
Track length4:00
Annees de pelerinage III, S. 163: No. 4, Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este
Track length7:59
2 Polonaises, S. 223: No. 2 in E Major
Track length8:21
Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (Arr. for Orchestra)
Track length4:48
Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: No. 6, Toccata (Version for Piano)
Track length3:49
Goyescas, Book 2: No. 4, Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor
Track length5:57
España, Op. 165: II. Tango (After I. Albéniz)
Track length3:07
Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11
Track length4:16
3 Fantastic Dances, Op. 5: No. 1, March
Track length1:02
3 Fantastic Dances, Op. 5: No. 2, Waltz
Track length1:24
3 Fantastic Dances, Op. 5: No. 3, Polka
Track length0:49
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: I. Molto allegro con fuoco
Track length6:59
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: II. Andante
Track length5:11
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: III. Presto
Track length6:13
Symphonic Variations, FWV 46
Track length15:36
Rapsodia sinfónica, Op. 66
Track length8:24
Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 102: II. Scherzo
Track length6:56

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    Awards Issue 2013
    Re-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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