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Moura Lympany's 1949 Schumann Etudes Symphoniques
Moura Lympany
Schumann
Etudes Symphoniques, Op. 13
Moura Lympany, piano
rec. 1949
From HMV 78s C.2051-4053
2EA.13998-14002
"Lympany's playing of it has .. breadth and inner feeling ... and, as one would expect, her greater experience and matured artistry tells all the way through... Miss Lympany keeps a beautifully cleats melodic line, her pedalling is exceptionally clean, and she pays scrupulous attention to the composer's markings... this performance and recording are a fine achievement and gave me great pleasure"
- Excerpt from Review,
The Gramophone, July 1951.
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Pristine Classical now offers all our downloads into the lossless FLAC format - we urge you to support this initiative in preference to buying CDs:
FLAC is an open source, lossless compression format for audio files. When you buy a CD you're buying a piece of software data encoded on a disc - when you buy a FLAC you get exactly the same piece of software data! And when you buy a 24-bit FLAC it's at even higher than CD-quality.
Playback: Many software and hardware players already support FLAC as a native format. For other devices, simply convert the FLAC into the format of your choice - WAV or AIFF files that are bit-identical to our original masters will burn straight to CD-R, or you can compress FLAC to MP3 or AAC for your iPod or MP3 player.
