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Release Date: 6th Dec 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4829404
Label: Eloquence
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3

Work length3:58

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1941-05-29
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 2 Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

Track length3:58

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1-10

Work length32:47

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1941-05-29
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor: Largo

Track length3:36

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No. 2 in B-Flat Major: Maestoso

Track length3:36

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No. 3 in D Minor: Tempo di minuetto

Track length3:21

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No. 4 in D Major: Andante cantabile

Track length4:38

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No. 5 in G Minor: Alla marcia

Track length3:52

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No. 6 in E-Flat Major: Andante

Track length2:45

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No. 7 in C Minor: Allegro

Track length2:20

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No. 8 in A-Flat Major: Allegro vivace

Track length3:08

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No. 9 in E-Flat Minor: Presto

Track length1:51

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No. 10 in G-Flat Major: Largo

Track length3:40

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 1-13

Work length38:15

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1941-09-25
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 1 in C Major: Allegro vivace

Track length1:09

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No. 2 in B-Flat Minor: Allegretto

Track length4:25

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No. 3 in E Major: Allegro vivace

Track length2:31

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No. 4 in E Minor: Allegro con brio

Track length4:36

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No. 5 in G Major: Moderato

Track length3:09

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No. 6 in F Minor: Allegro appassionato

Track length1:25

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No. 7 in F Major: Moderato

Track length2:28

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No. 8 in A Minor: Vivo

Track length1:30

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No. 9 in A Major: Allegro moderato

Track length2:56

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No. 10 in B Minor: Lento

Track length5:01

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No. 11 in B Major: Allegretto

Track length2:25

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No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Allegro

Track length2:17

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No. 13 in D-Flat Major: Grave - Allegro - Grave

Track length4:23

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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Work length25:11

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1947-04-17
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length9:19

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II. Scherzo. Molto vivace

Track length2:26

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III. Largo

Track length8:35

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IV. Finale. Presto non tanto

Track length4:51

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Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant in B minor Op. 22

Work length9:01

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
National Symphony Orchestra
Boyd Neel
Recorded: 1945-03-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Mendelssohn: Rondo brillant in E flat major, Op. 29

Work length8:34

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Royalton Kisch
Recorded: 1947-10-28
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Work length18:56

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
National Symphony Orchestra
Royalton Kisch
Recorded: 1947-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length5:39

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II. Quasi adagio

Track length5:05

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III. Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato

Track length4:03

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IV. Allegro marziale animato - Presto

Track length4:09

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Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Work length29:20

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Royalton Kisch
Recorded: 1947-10-08
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro affettuoso

Track length14:15

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II. Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso

Track length4:43

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length10:22

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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Work length28:56

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
National Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Beer
Recorded: 1945-03-14
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro molto moderato

Track length12:44

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II. Adagio

Track length6:26

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III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

Track length9:46

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Excerpt, Dohnányi: Concert Etudes (6), Op. 28

Work length2:26

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1944-02-14
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 6 Capriccio in F Minor

Track length2:26

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Excerpt, Poulenc: 3 Novelettes

Work length3:24

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1943-02-17
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

I. Modéré sans lenteur

Track length3:24

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Balakirev: Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

Work length8:16

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1947-04-19
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Work length22:51

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
National Symphony Orchestra
Warwick Braithwaite
Recorded: 1945-07-24
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Andante sostenuto

Track length10:51

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II. Allegro scherzando

Track length5:27

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III. Presto

Track length6:33

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Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D flat major

Work length31:56

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded: 1945-05-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro ma non troppo e maestoso

Track length14:20

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II. Andante con anima

Track length9:30

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III. Allegro brillante

Track length8:06

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Rawsthorne, A: Piano Concerto No. 1

Work length17:53

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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Recorded: 1945-10-12

I. Capriccio. Allegro molto

Track length7:21

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II. Chaconne. Andante con moto

Track length5:25

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III. Tarantella. Vivace

Track length5:07

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Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3

Work length4:17

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1951-01-11
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 2 Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

Track length4:17

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1-10

Work length32:55

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1951-01-11
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor: Largo

Track length3:26

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No. 2 in B-Flat Major: Maestoso

Track length3:41

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No. 3 in D Minor: Tempo di minuetto

Track length3:29

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No. 4 in D Major: Andante cantabile

Track length4:51

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No. 5 in G Minor: Alla marcia

Track length3:57

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No. 6 in E-Flat Major: Andante

Track length3:03

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No. 7 in C Minor: Allegro

Track length2:26

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No. 8 in A-Flat Major: Allegro vivace

Track length2:51

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No. 9 in E-Flat Minor: Presto

Track length1:48

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No. 10 in G-Flat Major: Largo

Track length3:23

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 1-13

Work length38:07

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1951-01-11
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

No. 1 in C Major: Allegro vivace

Track length1:07

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No. 2 in B-Flat Minor: Allegretto

Track length3:50

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No. 3 in E Major: Allegro vivace

Track length2:29

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No. 4 in E Minor: Allegro con brio

Track length4:57

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No. 5 in G Major: Moderato

Track length2:56

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No. 6 in F Minor: Allegro appassionato

Track length1:19

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No. 7 in F Major: Moderato

Track length2:19

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No. 8 in A Minor: Vivo

Track length1:40

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No. 9 in A Major: Allegro moderato

Track length3:15

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No. 10 in B Minor: Lento

Track length4:57

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No. 11 in B Major: Allegretto

Track length2:24

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No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Allegro

Track length2:19

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No. 13 in D-Flat Major: Grave - Allegro - Grave

Track length4:35

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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Work length22:21

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean Martinon
Recorded: 1951-05-08
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Andante sostenuto

Track length10:21

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II. Allegro scherzando

Track length5:30

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III. Presto

Track length6:30

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Work length36:46

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
New Symphony Orchestra
Anthony Collins
Recorded: 1952-05-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro ma non tanto

Track length14:47

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II. Intermezzo. Adagio

Track length9:38

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III. Finale. Alla breve

Track length12:21

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Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D flat major

Work length32:34

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded: 1952-11-01
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Allegro ma non troppo e maestoso

Track length14:08

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II. Andante con anima

Track length10:41

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III. Allegro brillante

Track length7:45

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Barber: Piano Sonata, Op. 26

Work length18:25

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Dame Moura Lympany (piano)
Recorded: 1950-12-07

I. Allegro energico

Track length6:25

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II. Allegro vivace e leggero

Track length1:52

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III. Adagio mesto

Track length5:31

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IV. Fuga. Allegro con spirito

Track length4:37

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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.

‘Here is the very luxury of piano tone and art in the playing.’ The Times, October 1941 (Rachmaninov Preludes, 1941)

‘Brilliant playing.’ The Times, January 1946 (Khachaturian)

‘Moura Lympany plays, in my view, superbly; she gives us the music with the pianistic conviction of the person who has written it.’ Gramophone, July 1951 (Rachmaninov Preludes, 1947 recording)

‘A fluent and sparkling performance, very French in the best sense.’ Gramophone, October 1951 (Saint-Saëns)

Moura Lympany - The Decca Legacy

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