Schumann: Abegg Variation, Davidsbündlertänze, Brahms: Fantasies

Composed by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms

Ottavo / OTR C39027

Recorded in 1991 at Henry Wood Hall, London 

'We have too few recordings of solo recitals from Imogen Cooper, and this one is welcome, not least because it allows us to hear her in other music besides Mozart and Schubert, the two composers with whom she is represented in the current catalogue. She brings a pleasing, quiet warmth and tenderness to the Abegg Variations, along with the spontaneity and vivacity that Schumann's youthful work demands, and in its blend of gentleness and vigour her playing reminds me of Murray Perahia—by which I intend a compliment which I hope she will accept as such. I like the recording, too, made in that useful London venue, the Henry Wood Hall.'

Christopher Headington, Gramophone, May 1992