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George Garnett
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« on: 21:31:40, 23-04-2008 »
I thought this evening's concert from Imogen Cooper was one of the finest things I've heard on R3 for some time. Serious, quietly stated, grown-up Schubert piano playing that in its unflashy way brought out the emotional tumult underlying Schubert's work. It knocked me sideways and revealed things in the D959 sonata in particular  -  moments of terrible stillness  -  that I hadn't heard expressed that way before. Profoundly moving stuff. 

Please don't tell me I'm barking up the wrong tree again and it was actually routine, uninflected and feeble in its British lack of emotion. Well, please do if it was, but it would mean I have got terminally confused about what is good and what isn't.
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« Reply #1 on: 22:16:52, 23-04-2008 »
Hi George,
I am listening to Imogen Cooper now. I liked what she said that in our fast moving times it is difficult to bring out stillness. May be we don't have stillness anymore.
I am enjoying this experience of listening to Schubert played by Imogen Cooper.
It is always interesting to compare Schubert wish Beethoven. It is different relations with life.
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« Reply #2 on: 19:43:21, 24-04-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 21:31:40, 23-04-2008
I thought this evening's concert from Imogen Cooper was one of the finest things I've heard on R3 for some time. Serious, quietly stated, grown-up Schubert piano playing that in its unflashy way brought out the emotional tumult underlying Schubert's work.

It was very fine playing and of a very high musical order.
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« Reply #3 on: 20:57:35, 24-04-2008 »
Her instinct for very solidly-weighted chords never failed throughout, with just the right amount of physicality. To see her live was special, particularly in the QEH - Uchida's previous recital (RFH) was spoiled by my choosing to sit under the balcony. I just felt so distant from the sound. But then again, with coughers like that...

Quote from: trained-pianist on 22:16:52, 23-04-2008
I liked what she said that in our fast moving times it is difficult to bring out stillness. May be we don't have stillness anymore.

Stillness does still exist, we just have to make an effort to find it.

Her remarks fitted into a wider issue that I take with the superficiality of society, and the inability of many to cope with long periods of concentration. I find this manifests itself most powerfully in 'popular' music.
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« Reply #4 on: 22:59:05, 24-04-2008 »
Didn't hear it, but I'm not surprised by the superlatives. She was one of the pianists who inspired me to keep practising.
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« Reply #5 on: 23:06:37, 24-04-2008 »
The one time I've seen her (a lunchtime concert at the Beeb in Manchester) I was most impressed - her command of stillness and depth of concentration totally remarkable. Never having heard her before I'd not expected much of the programme, which just made the enjoyment of the discovery all the more magic.
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« Reply #6 on: 23:25:28, 24-04-2008 »
Sorry I missed this.  I must LA before it disappears.  Imogen Cooper is wonderful.  I've seen her twice in very different circumstances - firstly in a church in West London doing a recital for a concert society and then last December at the Concertgebouw.  Perhaps the fact that she's not a superstar like Argerich, Schiff or Kissin (not that I've anything against any of them) means she tends to attract audiences who actually want to hear her play without the element that just want to say they've seen her.  The hall was full for her Beethoven 3 - nothing unusual about that but I felt the whole audience was listening intently; which is by no means always the case even at such a venerable location as the Concertgebouw.  We were rewarded with a superb performance.
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« Reply #7 on: 09:24:40, 25-04-2008 »
It was an excellent concert - Imogen Cooper seems to be able to instill something in the music that makes you want to listen more intently.  I look forward to the remainder of her cycle of Schubert sonatas.
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« Reply #8 on: 13:49:02, 25-04-2008 »
I loved it too, I cought the concert on R3 by happy accident, and was hooked throughout.Beautiful, sensitive playing.

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« Reply #9 on: 14:36:56, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Eruanto on 20:57:35, 24-04-2008
Her remarks fitted into a wider issue that I take with the superficiality of society, and the inability of many to cope with long periods of concentration. I find this manifests itself most powerfully in 'popular' music.
On the other hand popular films are considerably longer than they used to be, sometimes almost twice as long.

I wonder whether 'Stillness does still exist, we just have to make an effort to find it' doesn't possibly obscure the fact that it was never handed on a plate. I'd be genuinely interested in the thoughts of older members on this (maybe in another thread).
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« Reply #10 on: 23:03:48, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 14:36:56, 25-04-2008
I wonder whether 'Stillness does still exist, we just have to make an effort to find it' doesn't possibly obscure the fact that it was never handed on a plate. I'd be genuinely interested in the thoughts of older members on this (maybe in another thread).

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