Moura Lympany: The Decca Legacy
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4829404
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Release Date: 6th December 2019
Contents
Works
IslameyPiano Sonata in E flat minor, op.26
Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, op.58
Concert Etudes (6), op.28
Piano Concerto in D flat major, op.38
Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S124
Capriccio brillant, op.22
Rondo brillant, op.29
Novelettes (2), FP47
Preludes (10), op.23
Preludes (13), op.32
Piano Concerto no.1
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Artists
Moura Lympany (piano)BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Sidney BeerAdrian Boult
Warwick Braithwaite
Anthony Collins
Anatole Fistoulari
Royalton Kisch
Jean Martinon
Boyd Neel
Works
IslameyPiano Sonata in E flat minor, op.26
Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, op.58
Concert Etudes (6), op.28
Piano Concerto in D flat major, op.38
Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S124
Capriccio brillant, op.22
Rondo brillant, op.29
Novelettes (2), FP47
Preludes (10), op.23
Preludes (13), op.32
Piano Concerto no.1
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Artists
Moura Lympany (piano)BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Sidney BeerAdrian Boult
Warwick Braithwaite
Anthony Collins
Anatole Fistoulari
Royalton Kisch
Jean Martinon
Boyd Neel
About
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 this is the first time that it has been coupled with her remake of the cycle in 1947, 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-Saëns 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, 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 from Lympany’s Decca years: the quirky and lighthearted Second Concerto by Alan Rawsthorne (recorded in 1955, 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.
‘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)
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