… What is fascinating in her selection through the pages of Rachmaninoff, Schubert and Bach is that they imposed themselves by her own admission "as evidence, echoing a momentous moment in my life", Irina Lankova also demonstrates that she also knows how to tame this nostalgia for the Russian soul, of which Andrei Tarkovski says in his film Nostalghia that she is a “fatal disease”, inseparable from the extreme suffering that deprives us of our birthplace and our intimate landmarks…
Singular’s / Olivier Olgan / October 8, 2021