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Imogen Cooper Rediscovered - Schubert & Beethoven | Nimbus NI7120

Imogen Cooper Rediscovered - Schubert & Beethoven

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI7120

Barcode: 0710357712029

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Expected Release Date: 3rd July 2026

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“This release is part of a short series of recordings sitting on the shelves of the Nimbus archive that were ‘rediscovered’ during the 2020 COVID shutdowns. In those quiet days idle hands and minds posed the question: ‘So, do we have anything unissued that we can use to construct a release programme?’ This casual enquiry initiated a full investigation that has continued for five years and revealed more than fifty recording projects that, for one reason or another, never made it into the world.

“From the age of eleven
Imogen Cooper studied in Paris with the distinguished French pianist Jacques Février. By her own admission she returned to London like ‘a little French girl … full of Gallicisms’. During her years at the Paris Conservatoire she added Yvonne Lefébure to Février as her two primary masters. After six years she was awarded a Premier Prix de Piano.

“Returning to London in the mid-1960s Imogen began her career, receiving encouragement and inspiration from Clifford Curzon and Arthur Rubinstein. In 1969 she won the London Mozart Players Mozart Memorial Prize. A meeting with Alfred Brendel led to a period of intense study in Vienna that she describes as ‘an education, and an enriching experience’. She credits Brendel with showing her ‘how to listen, how to be aware of what I was doing, the meaning and shape of the phrase and not just the notes’.

“This recording, made in 1973, was one of Imogen’s earliest – perhaps her first – recording session. The session notes outline two days where the focus was on delivering complete takes of each movement. The Beethoven Sonata and Schubert
Ungarische Melodie were completed on the first day, and was simply played twice. The Schubert Sonata on the second day proceeded in the same way – a run through of the whole work, plus a repeat of the second and third movements.

“This recording was released on LP in 1977 but has never been reissued. Naturally Imogen has more to say now than she did in 1973, at just twenty-four years old. Yet there is already real poise and gravity in this playing. We offer this re-release in that spirit, acknowledging the inspirational career that followed, and wishing her continued success as she embarks on her farewell tour in 2026.”
– Adrian Farmer

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