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"Imogen Cooper is a natural Schubert player. She came to the composer through a love for his songs (accompanying a number of great Schubert singers), and it shows in how she makes the piano sing in these bittersweet sonatas and short pieces, largely from late in the composer's
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career. "I remain convinced," Cooper says, "that Schubert's love for the voice -- the instrument inside the body -- and for poetry, have affected all of his great music, not the least the big piano works from 1823-28." Cooper never overplays the music, making what could be thought of as routine passages in Schubert's expansive G major sonata sound fresh." - Tom Huizenga,
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Works on This Recording
1.
Sonata for Piano in C minor, D 958 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Imogen Cooper (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1828; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/22/2009
Venue: Live Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,
Length: 33 Minutes 6 Secs.
2.
Moments musicaux (6) for Piano, D 780/Op. 94 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Imogen Cooper (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1823-1828; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/22/2009
Venue: Live Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,
Length: 27 Minutes 22 Secs.
3.
German Dances (16) and Ecossaises (2) for Piano, D 783/Op. 33 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Imogen Cooper (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1823-1824; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/22/2009
Venue: Live Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,
Length: 11 Minutes 29 Secs.
4.
Sonata for Piano in G major, D 894/Op. 78 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Imogen Cooper (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1826; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/22/2009
Venue: Live Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,
Length: 36 Minutes 7 Secs.
5.
Impromptus (4) for Piano, D 935/Op. 142 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Imogen Cooper (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1827; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/22/2009
Venue: Live Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,
Length: 39 Minutes 19 Secs.
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