You develop as an individual and a human being as well as a musician, and your understanding of life and music becomes deeper and you have more to say in music when you are 40 than when you were 20, providing you continued to read, learn, play and grow.

It is with all the delicacy of her playing of rare elegance, limpid and fluid that the virtuoso Russian pianist Irina Lankova captivated us during this recital mainly dedicated to Rachmaninoff and Schubert. Because one can only be fascinated by her airy and refined touch with a shivering sensitivity in the service of an exceptional musical universe that she loves and reveals with majesty and grace…

"Generous pianist, who designs the concerts of tomorrow ...

The very endearing artistic personality of the pianist comes from a rich personal background: “I am Russian, but I left Russia around 19 years old and I have lived in different countries: England, France, and Belgium. I traveled a lot, being interested in the different cultures and mentalities that I was discovering. These are experiences that shaped my personality and enriched my interpretations. I am attached to my roots, which are always with me wherever I go, but I also nourish myself with the places where I live, the people I meet, the books I read, the films I see ... " Irina Lankova asserts her cultural heritage in her choice of repertoire: “Like all performers, I went through different phases in my tastes and desires. But Russian composers constitute my favorite repertoire because I always return to them, notably to Rachmaninoff but also to Scriabin, to which I also dedicated an album…

Subjective and fascinating, the “Goldberg Visions” according to Irina Lankova and Isabelle Françaix

For the pianist Irina Lankova, who we will see playing the "Goldbergs" live and appearing on the screen like a sylph simply dressed in a linen sheet, the exercise was far from being simple..

Part of a large selection of Rachmaninoff's pieces, it takes us to Bach's timeless serenity through an intense rereading of Schubert by Liszt.

Musical muse of photographer Peter Lindbergh, Russian pianist living in Belgium Irina Lankova delivers her most personal album, punctuating "Élégie" with pieces by Rachmaninoff, Schubert and Bach which have turned her life upside down..

These Goldbergs are not yet another recording of the most intimate of Bach's great masterpieces, but the audible part of a multimedia project which brings together the Russian pianist Irina Lankova and the French videographer Isabelle Françaix…

.. generosity of its artistic director, the pianist Irina Lankova, who will make you like classical music..

…with her interlocutors – or her public, to whom she likes talking to during her recitals – she gets directly to the point, without raising her voice, with the ability to synthesise and a poetic radicalism that surprises…

Making her art accessible to the greatest number is her true credo.
'Because there is no reason for classical music to affect us and to be present only at weddings and funerals. And why not on Monday morning?'

Irina Lankova makes the piano sing

Irina Lankova brings the famous Goldberg Variations of Bach into St-Michel-and-Gudule Cathedrale of Brussels

Irina Lankova tames the most violent composers with delicate kindness. This was the case again on March 26 in Paris, in Salle Gaveau conquered by …

Lankova, in perceptible harmony with the composer, joins the sonorous and the mystic, the form and the spirit. The play is clear, the lead is natural, the colors are infinite.

I heard a poetic lyricism which is very rarely achieved.

The most deeply moving interpretation due to the poetic sensibility of the pianist…

A magnificent interpretation, interiorized, contrasted and poetic, of a big sincerity and without any affectation. Real Schubert…

Irina Lankova is the ideal interpreter of Schubert, young and romantic, full of spontaneity, she is not distracted neither by the virtuosity no by the excess of contemplation

…an ample, generous, powerful and lyric playing, which invites to abandon and conquers by its expressivity.

Lankova's control of line was exceptional, at the same time as producing a fine depth of tone. Scriabin's Opus 28 Fantasia proved …

Irina Lankova takes to the hallowed stage of London's Wigmore Hall for her debut at Britain's chamber music Mecca.

…a first–rate recording does justice to the wonderful rich array of sounds that she coaxes from her instrument.

…an unusually effective CD: her touch is genuinely poetic, and she works on a large tonal canvas, conjuring moods and atmospheres with compelling authority.

Lankova fully exploits the Steinway's capabilities; her playing combines almost masculin power with exquisite feminine refinement. This is what makes this pianist so special!

The pianist created a distinct and delicate ambience in her own way by giving to the music an improvised character, driven by a pure inner desire, unpredictable, new and all the more captivating…

Beautiful, ambitious and talented, the Russian pianist Irina Lankova seduced the Belgian public. The release of her first CD, dedicated to Rachmaninov and Liszt, now opens the door of Europe for her.

The eloquent, colourful and dynamic sound of the piano enables the listener to sense in an exceptional way the personal feelings of the interpreter, particularly in the Rachmaninov, where the music is passionate, extremely Russian, but never sugary.