Browse: Imogen Cooper (piano)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Throughout this superlative recital, Imogen Cooper's artistic sensibility - highly personal, interpretatively penetrating, yet never didactic - reflects a sympathy with the music so intimate... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Everything Cooper does speaks of long acquaintance and real empathy…her readings are unfailingly absorbing — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

…Imogen Cooper is second to none in Schubert. The sound she so carefully makes is a glorious companion throughout, casting radiance on the first two Moments musicaux, the spellbinding last of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2019 More…

Cooper has a thorough command of the Schumann language in the major works buttressing her recital...judiciously differentiated, finely balanced and sustained by a compelling impulse. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…

Cooper’s keyboard mastery is as searching as the music itself…her way of balancing chords mesmerises the ear – both in the consonant close of Sposalizio (whose poised opening is exquisitely delivered)... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Imogen Cooper's strongly projected, stylistically sensitive performance stands up even alongside such distinguished modern versions as Uchida, Brendel and Schiff. With crystalline articulation... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…