Moura Lympany
Dame Moura Lympany was one of the first in an internationally successful group of female British piano virtuosos to emerge in the twentieth century. She was born in Saltash, Devon, in 1916. Lympany showed unusual promise at the keyboard during her childhood, and began her formal training at the Liège Conservatory, in Belgium. Upon her return to England, she received an Ada Lewis Scholarship enabling her to continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a pupil of Coviello. Her other tutors included Paul Weingarten, Mathilde Verne, and Edward Steuermann, and Tobias Matthay, the last-named exerting the strongest influence upon her playing style was exerted by the German-born pedagogue Tobias Matthay.
Lympany's first solo appearance took place when she was 12 -- she performed Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 at Harrogate, Yorkshire. In 1938, the jury of the Ysaÿe Piano Competition in Brussels awarded her second prize after Emil Gilels, though she was rated more highly than Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and several other famous pianists. In 1940, Lympany gave the British premiere of Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in London. Always a pioneer of new works by British composers, she gave performances throughout the world of concertos by Delius, John Ireland, and Alan Rawsthorne. Dame Moura Lympany's many acclaimed recordings include the first-ever complete cycle of Rachmaninov's Preludes. She had a huge repertoire, which included more than 50 concertos. In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II made her a Dame of the British Empire.
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Dame Moura Lympany - Mendelssohn, Liszt, Falla, Litolff
Classical - Released by Ivory Classics on 15 Jun 1999
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Chopin: Complete Nocturnes, Vol. 01
Classical - Released by Diggers Factory on 13 Dec 2023
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Chopin: 24 Préludes Op. 28, 7 Études Op. 25 & 10
Classical - Released by Erato Disques - WMI on 1 Jan 1995
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Masterpieces: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vol. II (Recordings of 1951 - 1959)
Sviatoslav Richter, Eugene Ormandy, Moura Lympany
Classical - Released by Masterpieces on 1 Apr 2023
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Piano Favorites
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 13 Oct 1995
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Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes & Suite No. 2
Moura Lympany, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on 1 Nov 1998
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Moura Lympany - The Decca Legacy
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Nov 2019
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Moura Lympany: Decca Recordings 1951-1952: Rachmaninov & Khachaturian
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2004
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Rachmaninov : Complete Preludes
Solo Piano - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 9 Jul 2017
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 - Piano Concerto No. 12
Moura Lympany, Herbert Menges, Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Infinity on 30 Oct 2020
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The HMV Recordings (Recorded 1947-1952)
Moura Lympany, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Herbert Menges, Walter Susskind
Classical - Released by APR on 25 Jul 2013
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Saint-Saëns: Concerto pour piano No. 2 (Mono Version)
Moura Lympany, Jean Martinon, London Symphony Orchestra
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1952
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Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1952
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Schumann: Concerto pour piano Op. 54 - Prokofiev: Concerto pour piano No. 3, Op. 26 (Mono Version)
Benno Moiseiwitsch, Moura Lympany, Philharmonia Orchestra
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Rawsthorne: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Moura Lympany, Herbert Menges, Denis Matthews, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 23 Jul 2021
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Schubert: Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden Quartet
Moura Lympany, Gabrieli Quartet
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 28 Nov 2008
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From the First Night of the Proms 1943
Stuart Hibberd, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moura Lympany, Heddle Nash, Henry Wood
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 14 Oct 2008
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Highlights of Moura Lympany
Pop - Released by Weishaupt Music & Entertainment on 28 Jan 2017
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Khachaturian: Piano Concerto / Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Moura Lympany, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari, Jean Martinon
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 17 Aug 2018
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor - Balakirev: Islamey
Eileen Joyce, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moura Lympany
Classical - Released by Past Classics on 2 Jan 2011
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Relax With Rachmaninoff
Classical - Released by Past Classics on 8 Jan 2012
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