GARY COOPER & RACHEL PODGER : Journeys end for Mozart

06 June 2009

From The Times June 6, 2009

Gary Cooper/Rachel Podger: Mozart

4 STARS

Journey’s end for this award-winning series of Mozart’s keyboard-violin duos, dispatched on period instruments with kaleidoscopic élan by Cooper and Podger. A cello chips in for the sonatas of 1764; ingratiating trifles from the eight-year-old composer.

Later variation sets are equally lightweight, though these inspired players know just how to bring out their secret melancholy along with their charm.

Geoff Brown The Times