Hearing Imogen Cooper play Schubert’s piano music is a bit like walking into the uncharted wilds of a dense forest. It’s a total-immersion experience, with even the most beautiful sights — trees, ...

The most powerful single moment in pianist Imogen Cooper's compelling but uneven recital Saturday afternoon came not during the music itself - although it depended on the music for its effect - but ...

Rachmaninoff was well into his career as one of the 20th century's greatest pianists before he learned that Schubert had composed piano sonatas - quite a lot of them, in fact. (The exact count depends ...

Imogen Cooper. It’s likely not a name that pops to mind for local classical music fans when discussing the world’s great concert pianists. But, on Sunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Macalester College, ...

Even Schubert’s very earliest compositions terrify. His first songs, written when he was only 13, are unforgettably vivid, gory, messy, mangled, full of darkness and horror, like dead little birds. He ...

Leonskaja has also programmed the Schubert triptych of the composer's last year in a single concert, and in one respect she will always have the edge. It may sound like pedantry to complain that like ...

Piano Season on the BBC continues with a performance by Imogen Cooper playing Schubert's great B flat Sonata, D 960. Imogen Cooper says of Schubert: "He has taken up a lot of my waking time for more ...

Perhaps it wasn’t such a difficult mistake to make. This was a genteel tea-and-cakes of a birthday party – none of your razzle-dazzle showing off here. You might even be forgiven for suspecting a bit ...

Imogen Cooper is a remarkable exponent of the art of “pull”, of drawing you in through the subtlety of her playing rather than through muscular virtuosity and dare-devilry. That was what made Imogen ...