Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Ingrid Fliter

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Mazurka in B-Flat Major, WN 7:
• 1 Chopin: Mazurka in B-Flat Major, WN 7 01:35
• Mazurka in C Major, WN 24:
• 2 Chopin: Mazurka in C Major, WN 24 01:51
• Mazurka in A Minor, WN 14:
• 3 Chopin: Mazurka in A Minor, WN 14 02:54
• Mazurka in F Major, WN 25:
• 4 Chopin: Mazurka in F Major, WN 25 01:51
• Mazurka in B-Flat Major, WN 41:
• 5 Chopin: Mazurka in B-Flat Major, WN 41 01:15
• Mazurka in A Minor, WN 60:
• 6 Chopin: Mazurka in A Minor, WN 60 03:12
• Mazurkas, Op. 6:
• 7 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor. Andante 03:09
• 8 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor. Sotto voe 02:34
• 9 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 3 in E Major. Vivace 02:03
• 10 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 4 in E-Flat Minor. Presto ma non troppo 01:00
• 11 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 5 in C Major. Vivo 01:04
• Mazurkas, Op. 7:
• 12 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 1 in B-Flat Major. Vivace 02:45
• 13 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 2 in A Minor. Vivo, ma non troppo 04:19
• 14 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 3 in F Minor 02:46
• 15 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 7: No. 4 in A-Flat Major. Presto 01:30
• Mazurkas, Op. 24:
• 16 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 1 in G Minor. Lento 03:13
• 17 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 2 in C Major. Allegro non troppo 02:28
• 18 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 3 in A-Flat Major. Moderato con anima 02:34
• 19 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 4 in B-Flat Minor. Moderato 05:21
• Mazurkas, Op. 50:
• 20 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50: No. 1 in G Major. Vivace 02:38
• 21 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50: No. 2 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto 03:14
• 22 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor. Moderato 05:36
• Mazurkas, Op. 59:
• 23 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 1 in A Minor. Moderato 04:25
• 24 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 2 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto 02:45
• 25 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor. Vivace 03:47
• Mazurkas, Op. 63:
• 26 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 63: No. 2 in F Minor. Lento 02:01
• 27 Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 63: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor. Allegretto 02:15
• Mazurka in F Minor, WN 65:
• 28 Chopin: Mazurka in F Minor, WN 65 02:39
• Total Runtime 01:16:44

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According to The Telegraph ‘Ingrid Fliter was born to play Chopin’, such is her profound musicianship and affinity with the Polish composer. Here, the Gilmore Artist Award winner continues her highly acclaimed Chopin odyssey, which began over a decade ago, with the complete mazurkas. This, the first of two volumes to be released on Linn, includes the early Opp. 6 and 7, the Op. 24 as well as the later sets, Opp. 50, 59 and 63. The programme reflects on the composer’s evolving style, from simple folk-inspired dances to brilliantly sophisticated, intimate works whose intricate counterpoint and harmonies often push the boundaries of the form and serve as a benchmark for the genre. Also included are some posthumous mazurkas which transverse Chopin’s entire compositional career.

Ingrid Fliter, piano

Ingrid Fliter
sprang to international attention when she was awarded the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, one of only a handful of pianists to have received this honour. The Gilmore Artist Award is presented to an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, possesses profound musicianship and charisma and who sustains a career as a major international concert artist.

Born in Buenos Aires, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule with Vitaly Margulis, then in Rome with Carlo Bruno and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola. She was a laureate of the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and was awarded the silver medal at the 2000 Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Ingrid Fliter was also selected as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2007-2009, working with several of the BBC orchestras under the auspices of this programme.

Ingrid Fliter now divides her time between Europe and the USA, where she works with orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

In Europe and Australia, recent and forthcoming orchestral engagements include the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hungarian National Philharmonic and Royal Flemish Philharmonic.

In recital, Ingrid Fliter has performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Muse d’Orsay, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, and at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Recital highlights in North America have included New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, in Fort Worth for the Van Cliburn Foundation and in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver, Montreal and Santa Barbara. Later this season, she makes her International Piano Series debut at the Southbank Centre in London. Festival highlights include La Roque D’Antheron, Prague Autumn, Valdemossa Chopin Festival, Cheltenham Festival, City of London Festival and the World Pianist Series in Tokyo. She has also appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Grant Park, Aspen and Blossom festivals.

Ingrid Fliter has established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Chopin, her two all-Chopin discs on EMI Classics a testament to this. Her recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes received five star reviews and was named the Daily Telegraph's CD of the Week and was chosen as Editor‘s Choice in both Gramophone and Classic FM Magazine and was described inGramophone, "Ingrid Fliter sets a new benchmark for the complete waltzes. From beginning to end, this is among the finest Chopin recordings of recent years." (Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone).

Her most recent recording for Linn Records features the first Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and her recording of the complete Chopin Nocturnes, for the same label, is scheduled for release in September 2018.

Live recordings of Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as well as in recital at the Miami International Piano Festival are also available on the VAI Audio label.

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