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Imogen Cooper - Schubert Live Vol.1 | Avie AV2156

Imogen Cooper - Schubert Live Vol.1

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Label: Avie

Cat No: AV2156

Barcode: 0822252215625

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 20th April 2009

Penguin Guide 4 stars

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Imogen Cooper returns to Avie with the first in a series of 3 double CDs, recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, exploring the late piano music of Schubert written between 1823 and 1828.

Imogen says: “I’m not afraid of being described as a Schubert specialist,” even though her active repertoire ranges from Bach to Thomas Adès. “He has taken up a lot of my waking time for more than 30 years. In fact, you could say that his songs and his piano music have sometimes been close to an obsession for me.

It is more than 20 years since Cooper made a live and recorded survey of all the piano music Schubert composed from early 1823 until his death in 1828 at the age of 31. “One of the reasons I’ve taken it all up again is that I feel it ten times more strongly than I did 20 years ago: the message has become more direct to me. Schubert has become even more necessary to my well-being, and I sense strongly that he is important for an audience’s well-being too."

Imogen Cooper has established a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of the classical repertoire. Having spent several years at the Paris Conservatoire in her teens, Cooper went to Vienna to study with Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus and the pianist often seen as her mentor, Alfred Brendel. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle among many others.

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