Title: HMV Recordings 1947-1952 Artist: Moura Lympany Label: Apr UK Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5024709160112 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2013-09-10 Number of Discs: 2
Moura Lympany (1916-2005) was the last of the major Matthay pupils. In 1938 she shot to international fame when she finished second to Emil Gilels in the Queen Elisabeth competition. A brilliant technician, she made the first complete recording of the Rachmaninov preludes in the 1940s and gave the western premiere of Khachaturian's piano concerto and subsequently recorded it. The HMV recordings presented here 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, the toccatas of Ravel and Prokofiev, have rarely been equaled.
Tracks: 1.1 Fantasy Impromptu in C Sharp minor, Op. 66 1.2 Thema: Andante 1.3 Variation 1: Un Poco Più Vivo 1.4 Variation 2 1.5 Étude 3: Vivace 1.6 Variation 3 1.7 Variation 4 1.8 Variation 5 1.9 Variation 6: Allegro Molto 1.10 Variation 7 1.11 Étude 9: Presto Possibile 1.12 Variation 8 1.13 Variation 9 1.14 Finale: Allegro Brillante 1.15 Vogel Als Prophet 1.16 Theme - Variations 1 to 14 1.17 Andante Non Troppo E Con Molto Espressione 1.18 Feux Follets 1.19 Les Jeux D'eaux À la Villa D'este 1.20 Polonaise in E Major 1.21 Der Tanz in Der Dorfschenke - Erster Mephisto-Walzer, 'Mephisto Waltz No. 1', S514A 1.22 Clair de Lune 2.1 Toccata 2.2 Quejas, O la Maja y El Ruiseñor 2.3 Tango 2.4 Toccata in D minor, Op. 11 2.5 March: Allegretto 2.6 Waltz: Andantino 2.7 Polka: Allegretto 2.8 Molto Allegro Con Fuoco 2.9 Andante 2.10 Presto - Molto Allegro E Vivace 2.11 Rondo Brillant in E Flat Major, Op. 29 2.12 Variations Symphoniques 2.13 Rapsodia Sinfonica 2.14 Scherzo: Presto
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