Composers: Albéniz, Debussy, Ravel, Falla, Mompou
Performers: Imogen Cooper p
Catalogue Number: Chandos CHAN20119

This might look like a program of colourful showpieces sponsored by Rioja, but it has a far more complex remit even if, as Imogen Cooper writes, the connections between pieces are “more felt than proven”.

She’s being unduly modest; one of the beauties of this collection is the way it conveys so powerfully the free-flowing, almost 360-degree influences that these...