Ms. Bashkirova, I remember it well: you said that you love chamber music because you hate the loneliness of the soloist’s existence. On the road, on the Podium, in the Hotel. Now, suddenly, they give solo recitals. What happened?
True, it has changed a bit. I just experience a new wave of piano evenings. More recently, it is in fact so, that I am very fond of alone, and the loneliness from time to time, even need. Maybe I’m just older. In any case, the alone for me to be transformed into a quality time.
you Have less stage fright?
Oh, no! The remained, unfortunately!
And chamber music make you…
Yes, of course. Chamber music is fantastic, the basis of everything! Only: If you are traveling to a concert or a Festival and plays the whole day together, in the train or on the plane sitting, eating Breakfast, rehearsing, occurs, then it is important that you only play with really good colleagues, but also with really good friends.
you Can ever play chamber music with colleagues you don’t like?
no, not really. But that need not be. I, myself, have in so many years, I have experienced already with other musicians, hardly ever disappointment.
her first chamber music festival they founded 21 years ago in Jerusalem. The offshoot in Berlin, “intonation”, is now eight years old and a success story.
Great, Yes! I would like to thank the audience for it! For his curiosity, for the openness! In the meantime, I’m not convinced that people will go randomly in a chamber music concert. You don’t come to disperse. You come to listen to a specific Quartet, this Trio, those songs, and to listen actively. There are always people who know these very special forms of music and love. It is the same everywhere in the world, in all of chamber music evenings.
Would you say that there is in Berlin a new interest in chamber music? Also, the Boulez hall is obviously became immediately a success story. There is competition?
on The contrary. The chamber music scene has developed in Berlin, more like in the snow ball system. Here is the result of the past few years, an urban, international audience, many Newcomers to the city to speak many languages, many artists moved here. I think the Boulez hall came at exactly the right moment. We at “intonations” are again something else. We are celebrating a Festival. The Jewish Museum in Berlin has a special, gentle atmosphere. With us you can experience for a short time, a handful of top musicians as they play in different line-UPS and formations, different plays. Also rare stuff. This is not complicated, but complex.
you do not have a Motto this year. Why?
Motti are out. At some point, everyone becomes a slave of his Mottos. But every single concert in the “intonation” has, of course, a small nail, on which the program is suspended. So I added about Schubert’s trout quintet in a pair of water-songs. Heine goes well with Schubert, Eisler, as well. It is raining so in the first concert, water music, with and without fish (laughs).
Must advise the audience what it’s about?
no. This book is already something in the Program. The second concert is attached to a waltz, and in the fourth there are Good-night-musics, in the fifth I have built the program mainly to these fantastic soloists around. Louder Heroes! Karl-Heinz Steffens is coming back with his clarinet, in addition, Klaus Thunemann, bassoon Pope. That alone is already a Feast. And Nabil Shehata plays double bass. There is Beethoven and of course Mozart…
… the clarinet quintet KV 581, the old gods piece. They call the program “gods and heroes”, as in ancient times!
And what of the young people? The youngest soloist in this concert, horn player, Ben Goldscheider, is only just 20. There are also contemporary music of Vladimir Tarnopolski, Aribert Reimann, Luigi Dallapiccola.
And you yourself will accompany songs. You have already worked with different singers. Between Robert Holl, Roman Trekel, worlds, between, Dorothea Röschmann, and Anna Netrebko. How to set it?
Yes, that’s right! But singers are, ultimately, only a musician. In a lied Duo I’m doing chamber music. Vocal and piano part are closely intertwined, a place to swap thoughts, immersed in the dialogue. I have benefited, for example, infinite to work with Anna Netrebko. She is a perfectionist. And you can learn as a musician from each of the singers How to breathe, a musical Phrase, how to Gestures haptically. Also as a pianist, I think, when you make Music in situations and characters. Perhaps, the Russian program I have made at the time with Anna, Tchaikovsky songs and songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, ever the trigger is that I got the desire, gaining experience as a soloist. I want to tell stories in music. It is abstract, but also concrete thoughts. If I feel that something arrives, it is the greatest happiness.
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