CD 1:
Alexander Scriabin:
5 Préludes op. 16

Sergei Prokofiev:
Visions fugitives op. 22

Mieczyslaw Weinberg:
Zwei Fugen

Grigori Frid:
Ungarisches Album

CD 2:
Giya Kancheli:
Miniatures for piano:
1. Calando
2. Lontano, molto rubato
3. Pastoso
4. Marciale, con brio
5. Quasi recitando
6. Calando
9. Disinvolto
11. Con eleganza
12. Luminoso
13. Quasi ragtime
14. Con eleganza
15. Sostenuto
16. Calmo
18. Andantino
20. Calando
22. Grazioso
23. Cantabile, lontanissimo
24. Pesante
25. Con dolore
27. Rubato
30. Dolcissimo
32. Sostenuto

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.

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Recording: 15.-17. October 2018, Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin