MOURA LYMPANY BEST -- LOVED PIANO CLASSICS, VOLUME II EMI

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: May 7, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

Yes, CDs are unbelieveably overpriced and expensive. But there are still great bargains, such as this budget album of popular piano pieces which goes for about $6.99. In 1988, EMI recorded Moura Lympany in a collection of favorites evryone used to want to play back when everyone played the piano a little; in 1991 Lympany returned to the studio for a second volume that includes such pieces as Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," Beethoven's "Rage Over a Lost Penny," Debussy's "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair," Ravel's "Jeux d'eau," Schumann's "Prophet ...

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