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"Cooper directs from the keyboard..relishing the gently ornate
elegance of the music...An excellent disc."
Rameau Cantatas CD Review
[Sunday Times, Jan. 99] |
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"Gary Cooper, who directs from the harpsichord, shapes every
phrase with a sure instinct and unfailing elegance, knowing exactly when to
push the music onward and when to indulge his listeners."
Rameau Cantatas CD Review
[BBC Music Magazine, Mar. 99] |
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"Gary Cooper's playing was stunning, with its mature sense of
musical line and rhythmic pulse, and a keyboard touch far removed from the
aggressively percussive style that seems to be on the increase amongst younger
players."
Sonnerie/Rameau: Pieces de Clavecins, Wigmore Hall
[Early Music Review, Apr. 99] |
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"Britten's exquisite hard-edged sonorities, brought courtesy of
Gary Cooper's split-timed cueings of his orchestra, the admirable Band of
Instruments, underlay at intervals, amazing choreographies of vocal
counterpoint, each limpid semiquaver perfectly in place."
Conducting Britten's Turn of the Screw
[Oxford Times, July 99] |
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"As with other recent Sonnerie concerts, the focus was on the
outstanding keyboard playing of Gary Cooper. He combines seemingly effortless
virtuosity with well-honed sense of style - a combination not always to be
assumed."
Sonnerie/Mozart Piano Quartets at the Wigmore Hall
[Early Music Review, Sept. 99] |
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"..nifty fingerwork and lively rhythmic impetus at the
harpsichord."
Sonnerie/Vivaldi Op.1 CD
[Gramophone, Sept. 99] |
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"Probably the best keyboardist around at the moment."
CD reviews
[Early Music Review, Oct. 99] |
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"His greatest ability, for me, is not the technical gifts of the
keyboard player (of which he has an unfair share), but his oh-so-fertile
imagination as a continuo player. I smiled several times as he turned what I
thought was a familiar passage into something quite new and
wonderful."
Sonnerie concert in Glasgow
[Early Music Review, Nov. 99] |
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"With meticulous direction from the harpsichord by the versatile
Gary Cooper, they [Florilegium] brought a rich and stylish understanding to
their specialist repertoire."
Conducting Florilegium Baroque Orchestra in Edinburgh
[The Scotsman, Dec. 99] |
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