Piano Favorites

Piano Favorites

Piano Favorites
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Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Franz Liszt
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Anton Rubinstein
Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Erik Satie
Performer: Moura Lympany
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-10-17
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Fantasie Impromptu in C-sharp minor, OP.66
  2. Waltz No.15 in A-flat, Op.39
  3. Rondo all turca from Sonata in A, K.331
  4. Minuet in G
  5. Traumerei Op.15 No.7 (from Kinderzenen)
  6. Un sospiro
  7. Etude in C-sharp minor, Op.10 No.4
  8. Etude in G-flat, Op.10 No.5
  9. Humoresque, Op.101 No.7
  10. 'Fur Elise' (Bagatelle Wo0.59)
  11. Claire de lune (Suite Bergamasque, No.3)
  12. Golliwog's Cakewalk (Coin des enfants, No.6)
  13. Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.3 No.2
  14. Melody in F, Op.3 No.1
  15. The Cuckoo
  16. La fille aux cheveux de lin (from Preludes Book I)
  17. Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op.64 No.2
  18. Waltz in G-flat, Op.70 No.1
  19. Jeux d'eau
  20. Gymnopedie No.1 (Lent et douloureux)

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Music Review: Excellent performances, good recording, great deal!
Rating: 4 Stars

Moura Lympany, Dame Commander of the British Empire (a title not given to just anyone, and her ability deserves such note from the Brits), performs this selection of pieces beautifully. She was (she passed in 2005 at the age of 88) a talented concert pianist known throughout the world. Here, you have 20 pieces for solo piano performed by the virtouso.
The recording is exceptional with only one minor flaw; apparently Dame Moura had a heavy foot on the pedals and her tapping can be heard from time to time, but this is a minor issue and hardly noticeable. I mention it only because it took a couple of listens to figure out what that soft thumping sound was.
This gifted pianist gave her first concert performance at the age of 12, Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G minor, with (also knighted) Basil Cameron conducting. Cameron suggested that she "glamorise her name" and so she changed from her birth name, Mary Gertrude Johnstone, to Moura Lympany (Lympany an adaption of her mother's maiden name, Limpenny, and rhyming with timpani).
From this point forward, she pursued music and piano with a controlled passion. On practicing, she once said "None of this eight hours a day stuff. If you can't get it right in four you never will". She was known in her early years to have left the podium in tears after performing becaue "of worry over the wrong notes she had played".
She recieved the title of Commander of the British Empire in the 1970's and the title Dame Commander in the 1990's. She was the first to record all of Rachmaninoff's Preludes, certainly no small feat. She toured in to her 70's.
Suffice it to say that this woman had a gift and used it to great effect and success.
I ordered this disc primarily for the pieces by Debussy (my favorite composer) and the one by Liszt (one of my favorite pieces for solo piano), but all pieces are wonderful and I have gained a new appreciation for all of the composers and the pieces because of this CD.
Her performances on this CD are amazing, passionate and beautiful. Each piece is performed as well as any other performance I have heard and it is all here on 1 CD to be enjoyed. The bargain price is a bonus and you must buy this before Seraphim decides to raise the price from the budget bin price of about $4.00. This is definitely worth every penny and then some.
Buy this CD with confidence.
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