Elisaveta Blumina - Memories From Home: Works By Scriabin, Prokofiev (2CD)

Elisaveta Blumina prefers playing character pieces. This may be because, even as a child, she was attracted to the ballet and her most fervent wish was to become a ballerina.This wish was never to be fulfilled (You are too tall, they said at the ballet school), but it had a significant impact in her understanding of music. Through the perception of dance, of movements and the characters involved, she can get a better feeling for the music.The fundamental reason for the choice of repertoire on this CD was that the works by Scriabin, Prokofiev, Weinberg, Frid and Kancheli also, for her, represent a retrospective connection to her home country.