Imogen Cooper - Le Temps Perdu - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This recording was released on LP in 1977 but has never been reissued. Naturally, Imogen has more to say now than she did in 1973, at just twenty-four years old. Yet there is already real poise and gravity in this playing. We offer this re- in that spirit, acknowledging the inspirational career that followed, and wishing her continued success as she embarks on her farewell tour in 2026. © Adrian Farmer

This is Volume 1 in Imogen Cooper's new series on Chandos Records, dedicated to the complete works for piano by Robert Schumann. Recognised worldwide as a pianist of virtuosity and poetic poise, Imogen Cooper has established a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of the classical and romantic repertoire. She has dazzled audiences and orchestras throughout her distinguished career, bringing to the concert a unique musical understanding and lyrical quality. Album Tracks 1. Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 - Imogen Cooper 2. Robert Schumann Kreisleriana, Op. 16 - Imogen Cooper 3. Johannes Brahms Theme and Variations from String Sextet, Op. 18, Arranged for Solo Piano By Brahms - Imogen Cooper

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