It’s one of the magical paradoxes of classical music that some of the finest “Spanish” music is by French composers, while many of Spain’s greatest musicians found their voice in Paris. Who better to explore this beautiful imaginative borderland than Imogen Cooper, a pianist whose searching intellect is matched by an unaffected sensitivity to the pure poetry of sound? Cooper interweaves Iberian-inspired miniatures by Ravel and Debussy with extracts from Albeníz’s Iberia and the profoundly Spanish colours of Manuel de Falla. She then delves deeper, into the haunted soundworld of Federico Mompou and a towering, translucent account of Debussy’s L’Isle Joyeuse. The result is an album whose individual tracks can be savoured in the moment, or enjoyed together as an imaginative journey into the soul of Spain. It’s captivating either way.