Cooper opened with the Beethoven Bagatelles - aphoristic little pieces in which the composer toys with fragmentary notions of what music can be, whether poetic or insistent, lyrical or obsessively ...
This was a bill that featured both a knight (himself) and a dame – Imogen Cooper as concerto soloist (pictured below) – and its first outing pulled a gratifyingly large crowd for a programme that was ...
But the one evening (actually the second) just before a second lockdown, and stomach-churning anxiety about the American election left at the door, offered a colossal signing-out as the Fidelio ...
The opening work, Jonathan Dove’s Sunshine, was composed in 2016 as an encore piece premiered the following year. In the event, music and musicians sparkled and shone as though airborne over an ...