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…
…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?'