Imogen Cooper
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Cooper describes [the Diabellis] as ‘a wonderful journey…I am instantly in a good mood when practising or performing this piece.’ And that is what overwhelmingly comes over in her superb recording…Cooper... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Instrumental Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Iberia y Francia
Imogen Cooper plays Mompou, Debussy, Albeniz, Ravel and Falla
Imogen Cooper (piano)
It is difficult to imagine Debussy-playing more personal, suggestive or voluptuous. Cooper has lived with this music long and well…She gives us an Albéniz entirely her own, all the more vivid... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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What impresses above all in this recording is the deep inwardness of the playing. This is not one single performance; it's the distillation of a lifetime's performances of these seminal works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Recording of the Month
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Of course, she's brought more maturity, introspection and experience to them subsequently, but these are remarkably poised and absorbing performances for one so young. —
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Throughout this superlative recital, Imogen Cooper's artistic sensibility - highly personal, interpretatively penetrating, yet never didactic - reflects a sympathy with the music so intimate... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Instrumental Choice
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In her early 70s, her technique remains supreme and for the most part her interpretations are entirely satisfying. For me, her Liszt is the most impressive of all, in which she remembers Brendel’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, Editor's Choice
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Imogen Cooper's strongly projected, stylistically sensitive performance stands up even alongside such distinguished modern versions as Uchida, Brendel and Schiff. With crystalline articulation... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper: Songs by Schumann & Reimann
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 14 December 2010
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) & Imogen Cooper (piano)
Holzmair's way with Schumann has always been special: his light, soft-grained baritone senses out the half-tones, the shadows, the emotional fragility of the composer's Lieder...Cooper responds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Cooper is alert to every dimension, transcending technique in a synthesis of human emotion, psychological acumen and dramaturgical insight. Her sense of balance is unerring, be it in solo work... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Orchestral Choice
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Amadeus
RecommendedAldo Baldin (artist), Agnes Baltsa (artist), Iona Brown (chorus conductor), John Constable (artist), Catherine Denly (artist), Barbara Hendricks (artist), Neil Jenkins (artist), Donald Maxwell (artist), John McCarthy (chorus conductor), Original Cast (artist), Felicity Palmer (artist), Cathryn Pope...
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Grammy Awards, 27th Awards (1984), Classical Album of the Year
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