Beethoven, pure

»When a great piece of music touches someone’s heart, you have won that person over, and it becomes a great treasure for them. We can give people beauty,« says Elena Bashkirova. The daughter of the renowned pianist and music teacher Dimitrij Bashkirov shares this treasure with her audience in many different ways, whether as a soloist, a chamber musician or as a passionate director of various chamber music festivals. Her approach, which embodies a sensitive musical partnership, seems tailor-made for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which is regarded as a milestone in the development of the genre in terms of the interaction between soloist and orchestra. The link to the popular 5th Symphony is the key of C minor, which Beethoven often used to evoke a stormy and fateful atmosphere. This is similar to his »Prometheus«, who, with the flame of heaven, can not only bring statues to life, but also endow them with emotion as well as a sense of art and nature.