Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend

Editorial Reviews
American Record Guide, September/October 1999
A sensitive musician and a spectacular pianist. These well-transferred recordings, were made at the height of her career.

American Record Guide, September/October 1999
These well-transferred recordings, made at the height of her career, show her at her best - aristocratic lyricism.

Album Description
Dame Moura Lympany is both a virtuosa and legend. Her playing has been described as a "unique combination of bravura and sound, which is extraordinary in its loveliness." Possessing an enormous repertoire (she is one of the few pianists to play over forty concertos in public!), she has been accorded numerous honors. In 1992 Moura Lympany became Dame Moura, the first pianist to receive Britain's highest distinction since Clifford Curzon became Sir Clifford in 1977 and the first woman pianist since Myra Hess was honored in 1941. Dame Moura has performed before the public for over 66 years. The piano concertos on this disc recorded in 1964 and 1967 for Reader's Digest Records have never been available on CD and are a testament of her musicianship and virtuosity. This disc has been newly remastered by Ivory Classics using 24-bit HDCD technology.

Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend

Tracks:

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
Henry Litolff: Scherzo from Concerto No.4 Op.102
Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A Major

Album Description

Dame Moura Lympany is both a virtuosa and legend. Her playing has been described as a "unique combination of bravura and sound, which is extraordinary in its loveliness." Possessing an enormous repertoire (she is one of the few pianists to play over forty concertos in public!), she has been accorded numerous honors. In 1992 Moura Lympany became Dame Moura, the first pianist to receive Britain's highest distinction since Clifford Curzon became Sir Clifford in 1977 and the first woman pianist since Myra Hess was honored in 1941. Dame Moura has performed before the public for over 66 years. The piano concertos on this disc recorded in 1964 and 1967 for Reader's Digest Records have never been available on CD and are a testament of her musicianship and virtuosity. This disc has been newly remastered by Ivory Classics using 24-bit HDCD technology.

Customer Reviews:

Don't Buy This for the De Falla!.......2007-05-07

Kenneth Wilkinson was a famously gifted engineer who developed the famous Decca/London stereo sound to its utmost. He is still spoken of to this day as a virtual deity in his field. The technique he pioneered required the utmost finesse in re-balancing the microphones frequently during the course of the performance, and you will seldom catch him at it.

However this Nights in the Gardens of Spain is something I never thought I'd hear, a badly engineered Kenneth Wilkinson recording. The harp leaps out grotesquely in the opening chords and things just go from bad to worse. One of the most sensual pieces in the literature becomes just plain ugly.

Moura Lympany is an estimable pianist, but if you are looking specifically for the Falla piece, look elsewhere. Casadesus, van Barentzen, Soriano, whoever. But not this one.

Sheer mastery.......2003-07-22

As a classical pianist (Eastman School of Music is the finest institution in the country! Check it out :), it is difficult to find other performers with as much sensitivity and awareness of musiality and breadth of expression as found here, who meet and fulfill the stipulations and subsequent obligatory heights required of a true pianist, and distinguish themselves from mere piano players. Dame Moura Lympany is such, equipped with extraordinary powers of empathy, dynamics, and finesse, a joie de vivre, this suave that makes the first Piano Concerto in G minor (a monster in and of itself) as fiery and yet breathtaking as it is exhilerating. The rest of the cd is no less spectacular. Highly recommended to those with a trained ear, educated mind, and the utmost particular taste.

Track Listings:

Track Listings

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Track Listings

Stray [Original recording remastered] [Import]

World's Best Known Classics

Worried

Sound [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Heilige Live [Limited Edition] [Live] [Import]

Willie & Me (Volume One)

You're My Thrill

Wienerlieder

Wintersun [Import]

William Morosi: Albumblätter

When Night Calls

Versiones 100% Sonideras

Tumbao Rebelde [Import]

New Horizons

Great Guitars