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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Schubert Live - Volume 1
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. The first volume includes the A minor Sonata D845, the D major Sonata D850 and the A major Sonata D959. 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 and Sir Colin Davis and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle among many others. “She is an outstanding artist, one of the finest pianists now playing.” Daily Telegraph “These performances were recorded live at a Queen Elizabeth Hall recital given in 2008. Free from the confines of the studio, Cooper rises to the occasion with performances that show a courageous advance on her already distinguished work. This is true, most strikingly, in the great penultimate A major Sonata, D959. ...few more deeply charged or felt performances now exist on record. Cooper wrings every expressive ounce from the massive opening Allegro and the result is movingly personal rather than overbearing or idiosyncratic. Time and again she makes you sense the dark undertow beneath Schubert's outward geniality, the pain as well as the fullness of his tragically brief life. ...nothing is taken for granted and every musical shadow, whether passing or engulfing, is acutely registered.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 “the piano could not be more naturally captured, nor the feeling of live music-making conveyed to the listener. She displays a very special feeling for the composer's lyricism, and the warm colouring and fine shading of timbre are as pleasing to the ear as the many subtle nuances of phrasing, and her bold sonority at higher dynamic levels is particularly satisfying.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition “The range of colour, the subtle details, the singing line, the freedom of tempo within the driving momentum, the haunting and haunted beauty, are greater than ever. A joy.” Sunday Times, 10th May 2009 **** “You only have to hear the slow movement of the great A Major Sonata D959 to appreciate that Cooper has the capacity to make the piano sing, in this instance with sighs of melancholy...Cooper has said that, after a career-long association with Schubert, his music's message has become much more direct for her. These discs show how eloquently she can convey that message to us.” The Telegraph, 30th April 2009 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Originally recorded for Denon in 1992-3. Highly acclaimed performances from one of the world’s leading pianists. Digitally remastered for Dal Segno. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Schubert: Beidermeier Dances
Charlotte Baumgartner (piano) | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Schubert: The Last Six Years 1823-1828 (Vol. 2)
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| |  | Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas & Complete Dances for Piano
Schubert: | Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-21 (complete) Valses Sentimentales (34), D 779 Op. 50 Minuet in C sharp minor, D600 German Dance and Trio in C sharp major, D139 Trio in E, D610 12 German Dances D420 12 Ecossaises, D299 16 Ländler and 2 Ecossaises Op. 67, D734 6 German Dances D820 12 Valses Nobles, D 969 Op. 77 Minuet with two trios in A major, D380 Two Ländler in E flat, D980b 8 (originally 12) Ländler, D681 Valses (Ländler) (20), D146 Variations on Diabelli's Waltz, D718 12 Grazer Walzer, D 924 Op. 91 8 Ecossaises, D529 Ländler (12) D790 Waltz in G, D979 Minuets (2), D91 Eight Ländler in B flat, D378 30 Minuets with Trios, D41 Ländler (17), D366 Galop and 8 Ecossaises D735 Deutscher Tanz in G flat major, D722 3 Deutsche Tänze, D971 2 Deutsche Tänze, D769 Two Deutsche Tanze D841 3 Deutsche Tanze, D973 12 Wiener Deutsche Tänze, D128 36 Waltzes, D 365 Op. 9 30 Minuets with Trios, D41 Walzer, Landler und Ecossaisen (38), Op. 18, D145 Deutscher Tanz in C sharp minor, D643 Elf Ecossaisen D 781 2 German Dances, D980c: Landler No. 2 4 Komische Ländler, D354 16 German Dances D783 5 Ecossaises in A flat major, D697: Ecossaises Nos. 1 - 4, 6 Waltz in A flat, D978 Six Ecossaises, D421 Écossaise in E flat, D511 6 Minuets, D2d Grazer Galopp, D925 Ecossaise in D minor/F major, D158 6 Deutsche Tänze, D970 Écossaise in D, D782 Eight Écossaises, D977 3 Deutsche Tänze, D972 3 Deutsche Tanze, D973 Two Ländler in E flat, D980b 3 Eccossianen D816 2 Deutsche Tänze, D 974 Deutsche Tanz in D major, D975 Cotillon in E flat, D976 Minuet in E major, D335 |
This is a re-release of the acclaimed Schubert Piano Sonatas with Michael Endres. It is now released in a 10 CD box together with the complete recording of all Dances, Waltzes and Ecossaises at a very special price. | | | (also available to download from $32.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatasand other piano works
Schubert: | Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-21 (complete) Valses Sentimentales (34), D 779 Op. 50 Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94 8 Ecossaises, D529 10 Variations in F major for piano, D156 (1815) Two Deutsche Tanze D841 12 Valses Nobles, D 969 Op. 77 Two Walzes, D980 4 Impromptus, D899 Minuet with two trios in A major, D380 4 Impromptus, D935 13 Variations on a theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner in A minor, D576 Ländler (12) D790 Two Scherzi, D593 Elf Ecossaisen D 781 Adagio in G major, D178 Six Ecossaises, D421 Klavierstücke (3), D946 3 Deutsche Tänze, D971 Hungarian Melody in B minor D817 Galop and 8 Ecossaises D735 Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer' 16 German Dances D783 March D606 |
Schubert’s piano sonatas span his creative life, from the No.1 D157 of 1815 to the three great sonatas of 1828 D958, 959 and 960. Schubert’s sonatas are a world away from Beethoven’s dramatic statements, and from the overtly virtuosic sonatas of Hummel and Weber. They contain some of his most profound music, the world of song never being far away. Drawing out the ever present patina of sadness, even in what sounds like ‘happy’music is essential if the performer is to understand this music. Some of his best loved works are for solo piano, and the Impromptus D899 and D935 are miniature masterworks, full of passion, drama, reflection and above all supreme lyricism. Recordings made by Denon in the 1990s “How good, then, to be able to hail [Dalberto’s] spring-like imaginative vitality and spontaneity - not least in the main work, the D major Sonata of 1825. He conveys all the youthful eagerness of the opening Allegro
vivace with a stylish lightness and clarity. In the second movement, allowed a liquid, con moto flow, he opened my ears anew to its magical textural felicities and tonal contrasts. (In the) not fully completed F minor
Sonata - an arresting portrait of the 21year-old Schubert not yet wholly reconciled to the procrustean demands of sonata form while plainly overwhelmed by the drama of Beethoven's Appassionata. Here again
Dalberto draws delectable contrasts of colour from his instrument while constantly savouring the unpredictability that contributes so much to even the immature Schubert's genius.” Gramophone Magazine, April 1996 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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