Richard Wagner
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After a highly successful recordings of works by Brahms, the Schumanns, and Chopin, Imogen Cooper plunges into the world of another great romantic, Franz Liszt, and places him alongside that other giant, Richard Wagner. This is an evocative programme of original compositions and intimate transcriptions, ranging from poetic movements from the Années de Pèlerinage: Italie to dark and deeply elegiac pieces, including Liszt's La lugubre gondola I and...
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Debussy's recently discovered Première suite gives a rare insight into the mind of a young composer on the cusp of innovation. It is a work filled with romantic and Eastern influences, and glimpses of the unexpected harmonies that came to define Debussy's output. Pairing the suite with works by some of the composers who influenced the young Debussy, including Édouard Lalo's Cello concerto performed by Edgar Moreau, François-Xavier Roth's programme...