Chopin: Piano Sonata 3 etc / Ingrid Fliter

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Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 etc - Ingrid Fliter
EMI | 2008
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It’s finally here: Ingrid Fliter’s solo debut for EMI. “Chopin: Piano Works” is now available worldwide and has turned into a highly personal album for the Argentinian Pianist: “It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that if it had not been for Chopin's music I wouldn't have been born”, Ingrid Fliter recounts, “My mother noticed my father for the first time while he was playing some Chopin waltzes during a party!” The album comes only a month after her recording sessions with British broadcaster BBC as part of their BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists project and is bound to catapult Ingrid Fliter into the top of today’s classical performers. Previous releases were live recordings and DVDs distributed by American specialist label VAI and secured her a sort of cult following – next to collecting strong live reviews almost anywhere she performed. The EMI deal did therefore not come falling from the sky completely – even though things had to wait until the announcement that Ingrid Fliter would be the recipient of the 2006 Gilmore Award before the deal could finally be struck.
Maybe this gradual growth has kept Ingrid Fliter an extremely modest and thankful artist, who still feels strong ties to her Argentinian roots. “Chopin: Piano Works”, too, is full of memories of home: “When I started my studies in Argentina I was lucky to be introduced to Chopin’s music very soon and thanks to this I discovered the beauty of piano playing as well as the importance of developing a singing tone on the instrument.”, Ingrid Fliter said, adding that she had always enjoyed the depth of the composer’s oeuvre: “Through the years of my studies I was very touched by discovering his darker side, his sense of tragic, which plays a fundamental role in his music as much as the "joie de vivre" does.”
It will be interesting to see how this CD of Chopin pieces will do in comparison to the other notable Chopin-related “newcomer” on the record market, Raphal Blechacz. In terms of her approach, Ingrid Fliter certainly had an interesting bipolar take on the subject: “Probably a good balance between his romantic soul and his classical expression is one of the most difficult things to achieve while playing his music.”
Tobias Fischer (tokafi.com)

For most music lovers the name of Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter hadn’t really registered before she was awarded the lucrative Gilmore Artist Award in 2006 (previous recipients have included Leif Ove Andsnes and Piotr Anderszewski), although she came second to Yundi Li at the 2000 Warsaw International Chopin Competition. She is now a BBC New Generation Artist and has a contract with EMI; we’ll be hearing a lot more of her. Fliter’s Chopin, as previously heard on two live VAI discs, was notable for its energizing muscularity. This is still occasionally present, in for example the Grande valse brillante, Op. 18, but her playing is now enriched immeasurably by a poetic depth and subtle expressive imagination. In fact, her interpretation of the Third Sonata is unusually reflective, without ever being entirely inward looking. Although she risks becoming a shade indulgent towards the end of the slow movement, her glowing lyrical impulse is a rare treat. Only in the finale does one really desire a more urgent virtuosic drive and grandeur, in which respect Lipatti still sets the spine tingling. Fliter beautifully shapes the melodic lines of the highly sophisticated Op. 59 Mazurkas, gives a luminous and eloquent account of the Barcarolle, and brings a freshness and verve to the waltzes. The Fourth Ballade, one of Chopin’s greatest works, is laced with loving detail and lyrical flair, but for all Fliter’s wealth of expressive nuance one sometimes wishes her incessant rubato would yield to greater simplicity. The recorded sound is warm if sometimes a little woolly. All told, a super disc.
BBC Music Magazine