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Imogen Cooper plays Schumann at the RWCMD Steinway Series

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“Perhaps there is some humorous potential in Schumann after all.”
Reviewed at RWCMD: Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff on 23 February 2014
Schumann C., Romance in B flat major, Op.22 no.3
Schumann, Romance in F sharp major, Op.28 no.2
Schumann C., 4 pièces caractérstiques, Op.5: Scene fantastique, no.4
Schumann, Humoreske in B flat, Op.20
Brahms, Theme and Variations in D minor for Piano, Op.18b
Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 21 in B flat major, D.960
Schumann, Waldszenen, Op.82 (no.7 Vogel als Prophet)
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