Browse: Podger and Cooper Mozart (series)

Cooper and Podger perform the variations with typical verve… it’s impossible to ignore the individuality, vitality and commitment of their performances. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 More…

This is Volume 1 of a complete set, and the series certainly gets off to a cracking start. The recording gives the fortepiano (an Adlam copy of a 1795 Anton Walther instrument) a full, rich,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The outstanding work on this second instalment is the big E flat Sonata K481. Cooper and Podger provide a broad performance of its wonderful slow movement that really plumbs its depths, applying... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper give characteristically intelligent and insightful performances of all these pieces, with Cooper offering occasional discreet and imaginative embellishment of the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

"This young British duo are natural Mozartians, phrasing discerningly, summoning plenty of temperament
when required, yet never over-egging the pudding when the composer is in guileless vein...... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Cooper and Podger provide some spirited playing… with repeats imaginatively decorated, and they are admirably expressive in the slow movements. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…