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Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend

Dame Moura Lympany, RCA Symphony Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Freccia Sir Malcolm Sargent
Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
2. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
3. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor Op.25
4. Henry Litolff: Scherzo from Concerto No.4 Op.102
5. Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
6. Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
7. Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
8. Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A Major

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All Artists: Dame Moura Lympany, RCA Symphony Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Freccia Sir Malcolm Sargent, Litolff, Falla, Liszt Mendelssohn
Title: Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ivory Classics
Original Release Date: 5/10/1999
Release Date: 5/10/1999
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 644057090623

Synopsis

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.

CD Reviews

Sheer mastery

A Real Pianist, Not Piano player | Rochester, NY USA | 07/21/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Don't Buy This for the De Falla!

Mike Simonsen | San Francisco, CA | 05/07/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"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."