N.Z. PIANIST IN LONDON
Peter Cooper PteytUUmm The Mfcr Zealand ManW. Peter Cooper, included * joggly uesy I fo’arecist recital tt Si Wtentew wan in London, I -Taits proved « serious] and ynMttoua set largely justified birthe skS writing, even though the ae« tud musical material seemed] rather slight tor such expensive " mid the ••Dally Telegraph." "The Tunes” said tfaet, inj spite -of eloquent presents-’ uoo, Llfoum’s muaitj “proved cnee more that the longer variation fonna de» mend a range ot imagination only to he found 1* the gregteet compoeera Both newspapers were appreciative od the “sensibility and , musical taste’’ (“Daily Telegraph”) and "charm and sensitivity” (“The Times") of Mr Cooper’s playing at Elixabethan keyboard pieces, but both also found that his performance of the Liszt Sonata, although musical and technically secure, lacked power and rhetorical intensity.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29634, 3 October 1961, Page 9
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