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Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel | Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0018

Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel

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Label: Wigmore Hall Live

Cat No: WHLIVE0018

Barcode: 5065000924188

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st October 2007

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Throughout her distinguished career, Imogen Cooper has established a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of the classical repertoire.

On the 18th Wigmore Live release, Cooper performs works by Beethoven, Mozart and Ravel with boundless sensitivity, virtuosity and intelligence. She has dazzled audiences and orchestra's alike with her lyrical and engaging quality and on this disc she brings her unique musical interpretations to the Wigmore Hall stage.

Her passion for this repertoire illuminates her performance and having studied in London, Paris and Vienna with the likes of Alfred Brendel and Jacques Fevrier she performs with an authority born of only the most profound dedication. Cooper was appointed CBE in the Queen's New Year's honours list, 2007.

'One senses a spontaneity that enables her to capture and intensify every passing poetic moment, every shade of meaning between the notes’ The Independent

Beethoven's Piano sonata No 28 in A major, is arguably one of the most influential piano sonatas of the late 19th century, the magic of which captivated composers such as Mendelssohn, Wagner and Schumann. The sonata displays an immense diversity in style and demonstrates the apogee of Beethoven's mastery of form.

Mozart's Piano sonata in A minor, is the first of only two Mozart piano sonatas to have been composed in a minor key. Written around the time of the death of Mozart's mother, it is the darkest of his piano sonatas.

Miroirs’ by Maurice Ravel, premiered in 1906, displays a significant change in Ravel's harmonic development. The piece is dedicated to the ‘Apaches’, a group of artists who shared their creations at regular meetings. ‘Miroirs’ reveals Ravel as an intrepid experimentalist.

Go, listen, and wonder how many better pianists there are alive in this country, or anywhere’ The Daily Telegraph

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