Neville Cohn, music critic for The West, described Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter’s performance of Chopin’s Ballade in F minor as “a model of its kind, yielding some of the most profoundly meaningful playing of the work I’ve encountered since listening to Solomon play it more than 60 years ago. The same composer’s rarely heard Nocturne in B from opus 9 was a little miracle of finesse, its alternating moods of introspection and turbulence gauged to a nicety. There were delights aplenty, too, in a bracket of waltzes with Fliter bringing freshness to familiar notes in the much-loved Waltz opus 69 No. 1 – and the bitter-sweet essence of the too-rarely-heard Waltz in A minor, opus posthumous, was perfectly assessed.”
Mr Cohn was also impressed by Ingrid’s performance of Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C minor which he says is “not for timid pianists. It requires an iron nerve and fingers of steel to negotiate its dauntingly treacherous musical terrain. This Fliter did, generating cataracts of massive tone. But there were moments, too, of a gentleness and lyricism that were often the calm before yet another storm of titanic keyboard fury.”
Ingrid Fliter’s recital was proudly sponsored by Zenith Music. Ingrid appeared courtesy of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
