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The complete Decca recordings of a much-loved English pianist, including previously unissued material, newly remastered and issued with a comprehensive introduction to her early life and recording career.
When Moura Lympany first visited Decca’s West Hampstead studios in 1941 to record a pair of Preludes by Rachmaninov, even the composer himself had committed no more than seven of them to disc, and Eileen Joyce (with Lympany, a fellow pupil of the legendary piano pedagogue Tobias Matthay) had recorded only six. But the ecstatic critical reception to her first recordings – noting the strength of her tone and the subtle play of rubato – enabled her to complete the set within 18 months.
The complete set has been previously reissued by Eloquence, but in this box set of her complete Decca recordings it has been coupled with her remake of the cycle for LP, produced by John Culshaw using Decca’s new ‘ffrr’ technology. In the interim period she had been wooed away from Decca by Walter Legge at HMV, but she returned both to re-record staples of her repertoire and to add works such as Balakirev’s fiendishly difficult Islamey and the Third Concerto of Rachmaninov: both commanding and original accounts. Here also comparisons can be made between her later and her lesser-known early recordings of the Second Concerto by Saint-Saens and the big Romantically styled concerto by Khachaturian which had become a signature work after giving the UK premiere in 1940 .
Also in 1947, Lympany recorded Chopin’s B minor Sonata for Decca, but the results were not released. Now available for the first time, her performance displays an extraordinary insight into one of the great Romantic masterworks, and the subtle sensuality she imparts to the Largo may well be one of the most moving accounts on record.
Eloquence has also unearthed a pair of superb live broadcasts: the quirky and lighthearted First Piano Concerto by Alan Rawsthorne (recorded in 1945, with the BBCSO conducted by Sir Adrian Boult), and a landmark work of 20th-century pianism, the Sonata by Samuel Barber, from December 1950. No collector of pianists and great piano recordings will want to be without this comprehensive tribute to Lympany’s art.
The extensive booklet is superbly annotated with a reminiscence by Bryce Morrison and a fascinating note by Stephen Siek, as well as several rare and some previously unseen photographs from the Moura Lympany Archive.
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5 Morceaux de fantaisie, op. 3 (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
10 Préludes, op. 23 (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
13 Préludes, op. 32 (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1942 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Frédéric Chopin)
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Frederic Chopin, Composer - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1947 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Frederic Chopin, Composer - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1947 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Frederic Chopin, Composer - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1947 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Frederic Chopin, Composer - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1947 Decca Music Group Limited
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Boyd Neel, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Olof, Producer, Recording Producer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1949 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S. 124 (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Franz Liszt, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Franz Liszt, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Franz Liszt, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Olof, Producer, Recording Producer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Robert Schumann, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Olof, Producer, Recording Producer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Robert Schumann, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Olof, Producer, Recording Producer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Royalton Kisch, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1948 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sidney Beer, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sidney Beer, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sidney Beer, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Six Concert Etudes, Op. 28 (Ernő Dohnányi)
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ernö Dohnányi, Composer
℗ 1944 Decca Music Group Limited
Trois novelettes, FP 47/173 (Francis Poulenc)
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francis Poulenc, Composer
℗ 1944 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mily Balakirev, Composer - Terence Gibbs, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1947 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22, R. 190 (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Warwick Braithwaite, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Warwick Braithwaite, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Warwick Braithwaite, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major (Aram Ilyitch Khatchaturian)
Aram Khachaturian, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1945 Decca Music Group Limited
Aram Khachaturian, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1945 Decca Music Group Limited
Aram Khachaturian, Composer - Moura Lympany, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1945 Decca Music Group Limited
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Alan Rawsthorne)
Sir Adrian Boult, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Alan Rawsthorne, Composer - Mark Obert-Thorn, Producer
℗ 2019 APR Ltd.
Album review
The complete Decca recordings of a much-loved English pianist, including previously unissued material, newly remastered and issued with a comprehensive introduction to her early life and recording career.
When Moura Lympany first visited Decca’s West Hampstead studios in 1941 to record a pair of Preludes by Rachmaninov, even the composer himself had committed no more than seven of them to disc, and Eileen Joyce (with Lympany, a fellow pupil of the legendary piano pedagogue Tobias Matthay) had recorded only six. But the ecstatic critical reception to her first recordings – noting the strength of her tone and the subtle play of rubato – enabled her to complete the set within 18 months.
The complete set has been previously reissued by Eloquence, but in this box set of her complete Decca recordings it has been coupled with her remake of the cycle for LP, produced by John Culshaw using Decca’s new ‘ffrr’ technology. In the interim period she had been wooed away from Decca by Walter Legge at HMV, but she returned both to re-record staples of her repertoire and to add works such as Balakirev’s fiendishly difficult Islamey and the Third Concerto of Rachmaninov: both commanding and original accounts. Here also comparisons can be made between her later and her lesser-known early recordings of the Second Concerto by Saint-Saens and the big Romantically styled concerto by Khachaturian which had become a signature work after giving the UK premiere in 1940 .
Also in 1947, Lympany recorded Chopin’s B minor Sonata for Decca, but the results were not released. Now available for the first time, her performance displays an extraordinary insight into one of the great Romantic masterworks, and the subtle sensuality she imparts to the Largo may well be one of the most moving accounts on record.
Eloquence has also unearthed a pair of superb live broadcasts: the quirky and lighthearted First Piano Concerto by Alan Rawsthorne (recorded in 1945, with the BBCSO conducted by Sir Adrian Boult), and a landmark work of 20th-century pianism, the Sonata by Samuel Barber, from December 1950. No collector of pianists and great piano recordings will want to be without this comprehensive tribute to Lympany’s art.
The extensive booklet is superbly annotated with a reminiscence by Bryce Morrison and a fascinating note by Stephen Siek, as well as several rare and some previously unseen photographs from the Moura Lympany Archive.
Details of original recording : Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, UK, 29 May 1941 (Op.3 No.2 - Op.23 Nos.1,3,4,10), 25 September 1941 (Op.23 Nos.2,7,8 - Op.32 Nos.1,2,6), 12 November 1941 (Op.23 No.5), 20 February 1942 (Op.23 Nos.6,9 - Op.32 Nos.11,12) - 4 June 1942 (Op.32 No.5), 4 June 1942 (Op.32 Nos.3,7,10), 26 August 1942 (Op.32 Nos.4,8,9,13)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 89 track(s)
- Total length: 07:47:06
- Main artist: Moura Lympany
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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