Schaghajegh Nosrati

"Deep melancholy, funeral lamentation, groans of lamentation, and grave longing." In the 18th century, the music theorist Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart associated such soul positions with the key of F minor. Schaghajegh Nosrati, the pianist born in Bochum to Iranian parents, juxtaposes three masterpieces composed in F minor. Each of them is decidedly "passionate," as Beethoven's publisher proclaimed with regard to his Opus 57. Brahms' large-scale sonata from the fall of 1853 refers to Beethoven in many ways, especially clearly to the slow movement from the latter's "Pathétique". At the same time, the 20-year-old's very own tone of voice has long been unmistakable on the powerfully sonorous piano style.