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ARTIST
Moura Lympany

WORKS
Decca Recordings 1951-1952: Rachmaninov & Khachaturian

CATALOGUE NUMBER

475 6368 6 DC2

LISTEN

Rachmaninov — Preludes, op.23/1-10

Rachmaninov — Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30

TRACKLISTING
CD 1
Rachmaninov
1 Prelude, op.3 no.2
2-11 Preludes, op.23/1-10
12-24 Prel;udes, op.32/1-13

CD 2
Rachmaninov
1-3 Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30
Khachaturian
4-6 Piano Concerto in D flat major*

Moura Lympany piano
New Symphony Orchestra of London
London Philharmonic Orchestra*
Anthony Collins
Anatole Fistoulari*

RECORDING INFORMATION
The English pianist Moura Lympany was born at Saltash on 18 August 1916. Her studies included a scholarship to London’s Royal College of Music and among her several teachers Tobbias Matthay played a prominent role. Lympany made her debut at the age of twelve when she played Mendelssohn’s First Concerto in Harrogate and at the Brussels Piano Competition in 1938 she was placed second next to none other than Emil Gilels.

This two-CD programme includes Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto — a work that received its London premiere with Lympany as soloist — and Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto plus the Preludes. Rachmaninov was a regular and prominent part of Lympany’s repertory throughout her long and distinguished career. She first recorded the Rachmaninov Preludes for Decca as a series of 78rpm records in the early 1940s and re-recorded them for LP in 1951 and it is the 1951 recording which is included here. The two concerto recordings date from 1952.

All these recordings make their first international CD appearance.

“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 (Preludes)

“… the orchestra in this version has some real body, and the piano is excellently reproduced … Miss Lympany gives a masterly performance.”
Gramophone March 1953 (Khachaturian)

“Moura Lympany gives a smooth, fluent, and very well-shaped performance of this very difficult work … the conductor, Anthony Collins, contributes much by offering a most perfectly adjusted accompaniment; nowhere is there apparent the slightest divergence of opinion on any point whatever between soloist and orchestra … it is a feat that is all too rarely achieved even in concertos where its achievement is considerably less difficult than in the present one … in all, a remarkably successful issue.”
Gramophone August 1952 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 3)

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