Chopin: Complete Waltzes

Ingrid Fliter's 2008 EMI Classics debut album of the Chopin 3rd Sonata drew universal praise. She now follows with a recording of Chopin's complete waltzes, released well in time to begin the celebrations in 2010 of the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth. Chopin's waltzes, by turn brilliant, tuneful and tragic, demonstrate the composer's ability to take a simple dance forms and transform it into a set of art works of great beauty. Fliter, who took second prize in the Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2000, is the consummate Chopin player and this promises to be an exceptional recording. Today, she performs the composer's music regularly in recital and concert, to great acclaim: