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 | Title: Schubert Live, Volume 2
Composer: SCHUBERT
Musicians: Imogen Cooper, piano
Catalogue # AV2157
| Price: £18.75 (2 CDs) + free postage | |
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SUMMARY
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Imogen Cooper’s Schubert Live, Volume One (AV 2156) was a runaway success both critically and commercially. An already highly respected artist found her profile, both in the media and at retail, raised to new heights. Imogen continues her exploration of Schubert’s late piano music with the second volume in her ongoing series for AVIE, recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Her selection for Volume Two reflects the public appetite, in the late 1820s, for shorter piano pieces, which resulted in Six Moments Musicaux, D780 and Four Impromptus, D 935. Even the publisher of Schubert’s G major Sonata, D894, described the work as a ‘Fantasy, Andante, Menuetto and Allegretto’, knowing that marketing the work as individual character pieces would generate healthier sales.
Imogen says: “I’m not afraid of being described as a Schubert specialist,” even though her active repertoire ranges from Bach to Thomas Adès. “He has taken up a lot of my waking time for more than 30 years. In fact, you could say that his songs and his piano music have sometimes been close to an obsession for me.” It is more than 20 years since Cooper made a live and recorded survey of all the piano music Schubert composed from early 1823 until his death in 1828 at the age of 31. “One of the reasons I’ve taken it all up again is that I feel it ten times more strongly than I did 20 years ago: the message has become more direct to me. Schubert has become even more necessary to my well-being, and I sense strongly that he is important for an audience’s well-being too.”
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TRACK LISTING
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Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
CD 1
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 (3304)
1. I Allegro (11:22)
2. II Adagio (8:31)
3. III Menuetto. Allegro - Trio (3:08)
4. IV Allegro (10:03)
6 Moments Musicaux, D780 (27:38)
5. No. 1 in C major - Moderato (5:15)
6. No. 2 in A flat major - Andantino (6:20)
7. No. 3 in F minor - Allegro moderato (1:47)
8. No. 4 in C sharp minor - Moderato (5:16)
9. No. 5 in F minor - Allegro vivace (2:16)
10. No. 6 in A flat major - Allegretto (7:08)
11. 16 Deutsche Tänze, D783 (11:30)
No. 1 in A major
No. 2 in D major
No. 3 in B flat major
No. 4 in G major
No. 5 in B minor/D major
No. 7 in B flat major
No. 8 in E flat major
No. 13 in C major
No. 14 in F minor/major
No. 9 in C major
No. 10 in A minor
No. 11 in E minor
No. 12 in C major
No. 15 in F minor
No. 16 in F major
No. 6 in B flat major
Total time CD 1: 72:44
CD 2
Piano Sonata in G major, D894 (36:43)
1. I Molto moderato e cantabile (13:20)
2. II Andante (9:09)
3. III Menuetto: Allegro moderato (4:36)
4. IV Allegretto (9:38)
4 Impromptus, D935 (40:03)
5. No. 1 in F minor - Allegretto moderato (11:58)
6. No. 2 in A flat major - Allegretto (8:31)
7. No. 3 in B flat major - Andante (12:39)
8. No. 4 in F minor - Allegro scherzando (6:55)
Total time CD 2: 76:53
Live recordings made at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 15 April 2008 (CD 2 tracks 5 - 8) and 22 April 2009
Recording Producer: Adam Gateshouse
Balance Engineer: Neil Pemberton
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