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Dame Moura Lympany - Tribute to a Piano Legend

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As a classical pianist (Eastman School of Music is the finest institution in the country! Check it out :), it is difficult to find other performers with as much sensitivity and awareness of musiality and breadth of expression as found here, who meet and fulfill the stipulations and subsequent obligatory heights required of a true pianist, and distinguish themselves from mere piano players. Dame Moura Lympany is such, equipped with extraordinary powers of empathy, dynamics, and finesse, a joie de vivre, this suave that makes the first Piano Concerto in G minor (a monster in and of itself) as fiery and yet breathtaking as it is exhilerating. The rest of the cd is no less spectacular. Highly recommended to those with a trained ear, educated mind, and the utmost particular taste.

Wonderful, a lovely piece of music, a must have in any music collection, classic or otherwise. Vey good value for money.

Kenneth Wilkinson was a famously gifted engineer who developed the famous Decca/London stereo sound to its utmost. He is still spoken of to this day as a virtual deity in his field. The technique he pioneered required the utmost finesse in re-balancing the microphones frequently during the course of the performance, and you will seldom catch him at it.

However this Nights in the Gardens of Spain is something I never thought I'd hear, a badly engineered Kenneth Wilkinson recording. The harp leaps out grotesquely in the opening chords and things just go from bad to worse. One of the most sensual pieces in the literature becomes just plain ugly.

Moura Lympany is an estimable pianist, but if you are looking specifically for the Falla piece, look elsewhere. Casadesus, van Barentzen, Soriano, whoever. But not this one.