Beethoven / Cooper - Imogen Cooper Plays Beethoven - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of classical and romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is internationally renowned for her virtuosity and lyricism. Dame Imogen writes 'It has taken many years for me to perceive the last three sonatas by Beethoven as the evolving journey I now feel them to be. A combination of wariness of Op. 109 and overawe of Op. 111 kept me solely concentrated on Op. 110, which I can hardly regret. Nor do I regret thereby coming late in life to Opp. 109 and 111. Having come to see the shortcomings of my perception as surmountable, I found that the joys and riches of these wonderful works presented themselves with much more vivid colours than had I tussled with them whilst I was tussling with myself. The case was, incidentally, similar with the InchDiabelliInch Variations, Op. 120, which I finally approached and embraced in my sixties, with crystal clarity of intention and unadulterated joy. Now it would be hard for me to play any of the last three sonatas alone, so potent is the journey from first to last. And how privileged my hands feel, having wondered and wandered in the heavenly heights of the last pages of Op. 111, to travel down the keyboard and bring this astonishing last sonata, and indeed the whole body of thirty-two sonatas, to a close, with a quiet chord of C major - no long note value, no fermata. Just silence.' Album Tracks 2. Sonata, Op. 109 in E Major-Prestissimo 4. Sonata, Op. 110 in a Flat Major-Moderato Cantabile Molto Espressivo 8. Sonata, Op. 111 in C minor-Arietta. Adagio Molto Semplice E Cantabile - L'istesso Tempo - L'istesso Tempo

Cheap Trick at Budokan is a live album by Cheap Trick from 1978 and their best-selling recording. The louder, harder-rocking versions of such Rick Nielsen classics as InchI Want You to Want MeInch and InchCome On, Come OnInch connected to a wide audience. The music is terrific and it certainly is interesting to hear all of this the way it was actually performed. Any hardcore Trick fan will need this document of the band's most celebrated concert. 180 gram audiophile vinyl Gatefold sleeve. Album Tracks 1. Hello There 2. Come on, Come on 3. ELO Kiddies 4. Speak Now (Or Forever Hold Your Peace) 5. Big Eyes 6. Lookout 7. Downed 8. Can't Hold on 9. Oh Caroline 10. Surrender 11. Auf Wiedersehn 1. Need Your Love 2. High Roller 3. Southern Girls 4. I Want You to Want Me 5. California Man 6. Goodnight 7. Ain't That a Shame 8. Clock Strikes Ten

Album Tracks 1. Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 2. Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1 3. Nocturne in E Major, Op. 62, No. 2 4. Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 5. Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 6. Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 7. Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 8. Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2 9. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57