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Author Topic: 15th march A piano recital by Imogen Cooper given at the Wigmore Hall, London.  (Read 452 times)
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« on: 17:14:11, 15-03-2007 »

Imogen Cooper
Thursday 15 March 2007 19:00-20:45 (Radio 3)

A piano recital by Imogen Cooper given at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes

Playlist:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 28 in A, Op 101
Mozart: Piano Sonata in A minor, K310
Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
Ravel: Miroirs


oddly enough, think i wanted to go to this and missed it, hurrahhhh for radio 3 !


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« Reply #1 on: 20:39:45, 15-03-2007 »

Did you listen to it Lord Byron? I did. I tuned in just in the middle of Mozart 1 movement. I thought she played sonata very well. I played it some many years ago. I know this Mozart really well (I think)
Tippett sonata 2 turned out to have much humour in it, whick I like. There was many different images, but I did not find them dark. I thought it was inventive piece.
Ravel Miroirs I heard some sections. She has varied subtle colours in her playing which were in evidence in Tippett and Ravel. She played some Debussy as an encore.
Thank you for attracting my attention to Performance today. This concert was recorded in February, they said.
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« Reply #2 on: 12:23:59, 16-03-2007 »

It was simply divine, apart from the tippet, but that is me and my tastes, lovely stuff.
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« Reply #3 on: 12:27:35, 16-03-2007 »

oddly enough, think i wanted to go to this and missed it, hurrahhhh for radio 3 !
I wanted to go too, but ended up missing it because I was late with a programme note for something else. And I missed the broadcast too (didn't know about it) <grrr>

I like that Tippett piece, Lord B. I even played it once! That's about as far as my pianistic abilities ever got me. I was 18 at the time and I suspect that was the last time I played in public.
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« Reply #4 on: 12:32:07, 16-03-2007 »

I have yet to hear anything by Tippet that I like but I suspect I will do, one day.
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« Reply #5 on: 12:36:50, 16-03-2007 »

Try the Corelli Fantasia (aka Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Arcangelo Corelli, for string orchestra).
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« Reply #6 on: 12:54:08, 16-03-2007 »

This sonata by Tippett was not bad at all. It was not pounding that I sometimes can not take. I loved funny little colorful bits, intricate I thought and not unpleasant. It was not dark or moody. I found it witty and funny. I have to listen to it many times more to be able to say something more meaningful about it, but I am not afraid of Tippett anymore. If I would be lucky enough and a student wants to play it I would not be afraid or appauled.
I feel I am making some kind of progress with  some composers. That Fantasia on Corelli theme sounds interesting.
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« Reply #7 on: 16:04:35, 16-03-2007 »

If I would be lucky enough and a student wants to play it I would not be afraid or appalled.
It's great fun to play, t-p, and the very sectional nature makes it interesting to learn and to rehearse (in terms of alternating between the very starkly contrasted 'types' of music and then trying to make a big shape out of the way they interact - an interaction achieved purely through juxtaposition).

But one of the sections (Tempo 4, I think) has long streams of left-hand semiquavers which don't sit at all easily under the hand (lots of fourths) and which I never completely mastered.
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« Reply #8 on: 16:39:30, 16-03-2007 »

This music is one of the most curious piece of work I heard. There are strange unconnected bits, strange winding lines,  juxtapositions of different material. It is challenging to make it sound logical and like one piece.
I can see that Tippett was very original unorthodox type of mind (may be like Glass is his own person, very independent and strikingly original in his thinking).
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