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Imogen Cooper performs Schubert
BadenMar 2024She is a miracle: you simply have to put it that way. The English pianist combines excellent taste, refinement and elegance in her playing. When she sits at the piano, she is a completely unaffected musician.
- Badener Tagblatt
- 18 March 2024
Imogen Cooper performs a solo programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth HallDec 2023Cooper was wonderfully responsive to the way Bartók’s pieces [Bagatelles] veer between jaunty sarcasm and a yearning, other-worldly quality... I appreciated the way she wrapped the entire cycle in a special, intimate colour.
- Telegraph
- 01 December 2023
Imogen Cooper, Hennking Kraggerud, Adrian Brendel
Queen Elizabeth HallMay 2022…Cooper’s playing exuded the wisdom of decades of experience. Her touch was clear but never hard…
- Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph
- 27 May 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 with Jane Glover
ClevelandMar 2022Imogen Cooper is an outstanding pianist…Her tone was clearly projected without exaggeration, and she sorted textures to give her solos an irresistible flow… It was an ideal performance, one that speaks to the long history of collaboration between Cooper and Glover, and one hopes to see Cooper visiting Cleveland more regularly in the future.
- Mark S. Jordan, Seen and Heard International
- 26 March 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Mozart with Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
BournemouthMar 2022Alert to every nuance of phrasing, dynamic and tonal colour in the proposals exchanged between keyboard and orchestra, shared rapport was engagingly conversational throughout.
- Ian Julier, The Arts Desk
- 07 March 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Beethoven Diabelli Variations
London, Fidelio CafeNov 2020So to Imogen Cooper’s marathon labour of... This was Beethoven at his wildest, most unpredictable – it felt mostly fierce at close quarters - and often improvisatory, at least in the earlier variations and, of course, the Bachian arietta-like beauties of Variation 31’s C minor Largo.
- David Nice, The Arts Desk
- 05 November 2020
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert's last three Sonatas
London, Wigmore HallOct 2019There is perfection in the way that profound sadness is finally transcended by a shift into heavenly major-key light [in D960], and it needs equal perfection, anchoring and inwardness in the playing... Cooper achieved those qualities at the most profound level. ★★★★★
- David Nice, The Arts Desk
- 23 October 2019