Schubert Live Vol 3
Composed by Franz Schubert
Avie / AV2158
Recorded May 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
'The climax of Imogen Cooper’s live Schubert piano recital, recorded by the BBC, is her magisterial performance of the B flat Sonata, D960, his last instrumental work. The vast first movement’s sense of repose is subtly tinged with Schubertian darkness, while in the bereft outer sections of the second movement, the poise of Cooper’s playing holds one breathless. Equally impressive are the Impromptus, D899, and two earlier Sonatas, the bleak A minor, D784, and the incomplete C major, D840. Cooper’s sense of rightness of colour and her exquisite balancing of textures fully justify her reputation as one of the great Schubertians of our time.'
Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times, May 2010
TRACKLISTING
DISC 1
1 12 German Dances, D790
2 - 4 Piano Sonata in A minor, D784
5 Hungarian Melody in B minor, D817
6 - 7 Piano Sonata in C major, D840
DISC 2
1 - 4 Four Impromptus, D899
5 - 8 Piano Sonata in B flat Major, D960
9 Allegretto in C minor, D915