What effect do years of composing and life experience have on creativity? In a special recital for Time Unwrapped, Imogen Cooper surveys works of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert.

Haydn’s final sonatas engage with the sonorous new Broadwood pianos he encountered in London, which expanded his range while allowing his subversive streak free rein. In his final sonatas, Beethoven abandoned Classical conventions, turning time back on itself, combining unbridled emotion with archaic technique, forging radical new forms. His radiant Op. 110 sonata is prefaced here by Adès’ exploration of Dowland’s tormented plea for death. The first of Schubert’s audacious late sonatas, written in the final year of his life, offers overwhelming darkness and visionary intensity.

‘The poise of Cooper’s playing holds one breathless … her sense of rightness of colour and her exquisite balancing of textures fully justify her reputation as one of the great Schubertians of our time.’ Sunday Times