English translation:
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, and which should have been created last June, on the occasion of the thousand years of the Saint-Martin church of Tourinnes-la-Grosse.
Alas, Covid obliges, this beautiful project was postponed to March 27, 2021, date on which we will see the pianist play each of the 32 variations under the fleeting images of her partner which refer as much to Tarkovsky's cinema as to the Chinese hexagrams of Yi Jing and have as a common denominator the virginal nature which unfolds around the home of Irina Lankova, in Brabant Wallon.
It is at her home that she recorded these Goldbergs, which reveal the introspective side of the artist more accustomed to playing the great romantic pages, but without making the economy of her art of singing piano, neither abandoning her disarming authenticity.
Xavier Flament / L’Echo / 9 October 2020