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 ...