ImogenCooper

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• Imogen Cooper performs Schubert

  Baden

  Mar 2024

  • She 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 Hall

  Dec 2023

  • Cooper 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 Hall

  May 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

  Cleveland

  Mar 2022

  • Imogen 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

  Bournemouth

  Mar 2022

  • Alert 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 Cafe

  Nov 2020

  • So 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 Hall

  Oct 2019

  • There 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