Ingrid Fliter: Chopin, no shuga please

Wednesday evening was my first chance to write a review--and pardon me if I'm overwrought here--on the genius who gave us the Ballades, Scherzi, Mazurkas, Etudes, Barcarolle and the Polonaise-Fantasy (among many, many others). Jean Yves Thibaudet performed the 2nd concerto last Sunday, but after one of those "autopilot" exercises --or so it felt--I focused on the other half of the program. Thibaudet is one of the greats and he's introduced me to so much new material, so my standards are set higher for him. Argentinean pianist Ingrid Fliter was the soloist in the same Chopin concerto in Grant Park, and she proved more sensitive to the score.  She's alluring up there, wiping her brow and the piano keys between passages.  And the slow movement was convincingy un-sappy and sturdy. I'll be keeping on eye out on her future trips to Chicago. But now I say we start a petition to get the E Minor concerto some love next summer.  That's what I'm sayin.