Fliter, Markl, Scottish CO - Chopin: Piano Concertos (2014)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 267 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Linn Records | Catalog Number: 455
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 267 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Linn Records | Catalog Number: 455
Award-winning pianist Ingrid Fliter makes her Linn debut with a distinctive performance of Chopin’s notoriously difficult piano concertos, featuring the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jun Märkl. Since winning the silver medal at the 2000 Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Ingrid has built a reputation as a first-rate Chopin interpreter.
Fliter has previously recorded two all-Chopin discs; her interpretation of the complete Chopin Waltzes received several five star reviews and was named as the Telegraph's ‘CD of the Week’ and Classic FM Magazine's ‘Editors Choice’.
Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a thoughtfully scored composition that allows the piano to shine. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s beautifully delicate playing perfectly highlights Fliter’s authoritative, yet expressive performance.
Fliter carefully and skilfully showcases the range of tones in Chopin’s second piano concerto, from the dramatic introductory chords at the opening of the first movement to the sweetly lyrical second movement where the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s woodwinds vie for centre stage. Fliter is a breathtaking performer whose performance of Chopin’s commanding chords and lightening speed runs are effortless.
Ingrid Fliter first 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.
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 works with orchestras such as Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
2014 is the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s fortieth anniversary year; ‘Chopin: Piano Concertos’ is its twenty first recording with Linn.
Conductor Jun Märkl is constantly in demand with the world’s leading orchestras and soloists, having studied with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Ingrid Fliter
Conductor: Jun Märkl
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Reviews: With so many first-rate recorded performances of varying vintages and in different price-ranges did we need another recording? Emphatically yes, if it’s as good as this new Linn CD.
Ingrid Fliter has already made quite a reputation as an interpreter of Chopin’s solo piano music for EMI. Now she turns to the youthful concertos and makes an auspicious debut with a different label. There’s plenty of bravura and power in the outer movements without any sense of showing off and there’s poetry in the slow movements, even if the Romance of No. 1 is taken noticeably faster than by Rubinstein on either of the RCA recordings, though at almost exactly the same pace as by Argerich. The Larghetto of No. 2, on the other hand, is rather slower than from Rubinstein without sounding drawn out.
Look at the adjectives and nouns that Michael Cookson uses in his review of Fliter’s recording of the Waltzes and you’ll find them all equally appropriate to various aspects of these concertos: glittering, feather-light and fleet-footed, playful, yearning and sorrow.
Do I still plan to listen to Rubinstein and to Pollini in No. 1? Does Argerich find a little more magic in both concertos? Is Stefan Askenase with Leopold Ludwig (Beulah 3-5BX172, rec. 1960 - see DL News 2013/9) a little dreamier in No. 2? Yes, but that’s only because I listened to them in direct comparison with the new Fliter recording. Hear them all on their own without comparison and they are equally convincing.
The recording is a good deal firmer and more credible, especially in the lower frequencies, than the RCA Rubinstein, even in its re-mastered form. I thought the balance between soloist and orchestra almost ideal, so I was surprised as I was closing this review to see a suggestion that the piano is balanced too far forward. Thinking that I had, perhaps, been unduly influenced by listening to the Rubinstein first, where the piano certainly is forward in RCA’s house style of the 1960s, I listened again and still thought the balance credible. Certainly the soloist is the centre of attention but that’s Chopin’s fault, if fault there be.
Tracklisting:
1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 11 - Allegro maestoso
2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 11 - Romanze - Larghetto
3. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 11 - Rondo - Vivace
4. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Opus 21 - Allegro maestoso
5. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Opus 21 - Larghetto
6. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Opus 21 - Rondo - Vivace
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