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Ingrid Fliter on Chopin...
"It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that if it had not been for Chopin's music I wouldn't have been born. My mother noticed my father for the first time while he was playing some Chopin waltzes during a party!
Then, as a child, I have the vivid memory of his music played by A. Rubinstein sounding everywhere, in the living room, in the kitchen, in the car. So I grew up loving Chopin's music and taking it as part of my every day life.
When I started my studies in Argentina I was lucky to be introduced to his 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.
His romanticism is not obvious and demands from the interpreter a strong sense of proportions. 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.
For certain aspects Chopin is essential and natural. This must have led erroneously to consider him as an "entertainer" composer. Nothing more far from the truth! 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. He is not afraid of extremes and one can be dragged, in a very short amount of time, from the feeling of levitating in the eternity of heaven to the deepest sorrow of existence...
But most of all Chopin speaks directly to the heart of people. When I play Chopin I feel a warm wave of recognition among the audience towards his music. For this reason I do believe he transcends matters of time or fashion and will always be loved by people from all over the world."
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