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Khatia Buniatishvili - Verbier Festival 2013 - Interview
interview with Khatia Buniatishvili in paris with subtitles
1 Ennio Morricone - Deborah's Theme  
2 Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1  
3 Frederic Chopin - Prelude In E Minor Op. 28/4  
4 Gyorgy Ligeti - Arc-En-Ciel  
5 Johann Sebastian Bach - Badinerie  
6 Johann Sebastian Bach - Air On The G String  
7 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vocalise Op. 34/14  
8 Serge Gainsbourg - La Javanaise  
9 Heitor Villa-Lobos - Valsa Da Dor  
10 Francois Couperin - Les Barricades Mysterieuses  
11 Johann Sebastian Bach - Sicilienne  
12 Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo In A Major Op. 118/2  
13 Arvo Part - Pari Intervallo  
14 Philip Glass - I'm Going To Make A Cake  
15 Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata In D Minor K 32  
16 Franz Liszt - Consolation (Pensee Poetique) In D-Flat Major S 172/3  
17 John Cage - 4'33  
18 Johann Sebastian Bach - Adagio  
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Khatia Buniatishvili's new recording for Sony Classical is a concept album as imaginative, sensitive and philosophical as the pianist herself.

"Labyrinth" explores the unfathomable quest that is human life. It plots a filmic course through hesitance, wistfulness, sensuality, pleasure and pain – all seen through the eyes of a woman enlightened by self-reflection and wisdom.

Recorded at La Grande Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris, the album occupies its own half-real domain, drawing on the evocative language of composers from Scarlatti to Morricone and from Bach to Glass.

The labyrinth, says the French-Georgian pianist, is ‘our fate and creation; our impasse and deliverance; the polyphony of life, senses, reawakened dreams and the neglected present; unexpected and expected turnings of the said or unsaid ... The labyrinth of our mind.'

  • Khatia Buniatishvili's 'Rachmaninov Third' w/Berlin Philharmonie was brilliant and vulnerable / Georgia Today
    Posted At: January 16, 2025
    Georgia Today's  Lily Fürstenow writes……Amidst heated debates as to whether Georgia is part of Europe, and how its integration into the EU can be solved in the most rapid and cost-effective way, local art scenes are being literally torn apart by the non-stop protests all over Georgia and abroad against the ruling party in Tbilisi, which they accuse of election and other fraud. At this historical turnin...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili w/ASMF grace Barbican Hall with a captivating performance of Mozart / A Young(ish) Perspective
    Posted At: December 11, 2024
    As Pablo Casals once did before, Khatia Buniatishvili places the human being at the centre of her art. The fundamental values handed down from the Enlightenment are not up for discussion. Were there a fire and a choice to be made between child and painting, she would not hesitate for a second. Yet, once she had pulled the child from the blaze, she would take it to the Museum of Fine Arts so that it might be...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili explores quiet corners of the psyche on 'Labyrinth' / blogcritics
    Posted At: October 2, 2020

    Khatia Buniatishvili, a pianist knows for both introspection and romanticism, explores quiet corners of the psyche on her new album, Labyrinth. A collection of mostly well-known pieces by a broad variety of composers – from Baroque through contemporary, Couperin through Philip Glass – it's an album to listen to with a glass of wine or two. Billed as a concept album, Labyrinth is a collage...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili plays the Liszt 'Piano Concerto no. 2 in A Major' with fury and craftmanship at Kravis Center / Palm Beach Daily News
    Posted At: January 20, 2020

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra opened a promising Sunday evening at the Kravis Center. Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili took the stage to perform Franz Liszt's "Piano Concerto no. 2 in A Major," S125. Benjamin Mellefont on clarinet had gorgeous moments with brief soloistic passages. A homogeneous violin section expertly blended every pitch and dynamic swell. It was a pleasure to witness the precision of ar...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili to perform in Music Worcester debut at Tuckerman Hall / the telegram
    Posted At: April 14, 2019

    World-renowned pianist Khatia Buniatishvili will perform a program of Schubert and Liszt April 19 at Tuckerman Hall. The concert marks Buniatishvili's first time in the city, and is one of only two American performances on her 2019 tour. "I'm always excited to go for the first time somewhere, to discover the new culture, to share my emotions and physical experience with people that I've never met be...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili makes Modest Mussorgsky sound anything but bashful / RT
    Posted At: March 9, 2019

    With a toss of the hair and a playful lip bite, Khatia Buniatishvili makes Modest Mussorgsky sound anything but bashful – and the otherwise stuffy world of classical music just can't get enough. The long-dead composers she plays might have written some jazzier rhythms if they knew they'd be brought to life by a woman whose whole body sways and bounces with every arpeggio. The tension builds as ...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili with Israel Philharmonic set for Georgia's Tsinandali Festival / Agenda.ge
    Posted At: March 14, 2017

    Israel's leading symphony orchestra and award-winning Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili will play for audiences in Georgia later this year as a preview of the country's upcoming Tsinandali Festival of classical music. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by its musical director and conductor Zubin Mehta, will team up with Buniatishvili to present the classical show in September. The concert will be...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Liszt PC2: blu-ray release has fire and sensitivity / Texas Public Radio
    Posted At: January 31, 2017

    There's moment in the middle of Liszt's "Piano Concerto No. 2," newly available on Blu-ray, when pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is deep into a solo cadenza. The Israel Philharmonic is silent, and conductor Zubin Mehta, looking out at the orchestra with a hundred-yard-stare, turns the page in his score so flippantly and forcefully it's picked up on mic with a great "flap!" sound. Within a few seco...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili named TF1 - musician of the year / Agenda.ge
    Posted At: December 12, 2016

    Award-winning Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has claimed another international prize - last week Europe's most viewed television channel TF1 named her Musician of the Year. On December 9, the French TV channel held its annual awards ceremony honouring artists, sportspeople and media personalities of 2016. Buniatishvili was at the awards ceremony and collected the special prize before addressin...

  • Listen to dramatic reading of Khatia Buniatishvili's bio / WFMT
    Posted At: October 17, 2016

    If you're a music lover, you've likely read your fair share of artist biographies in program notes, liner notes, or artist websites. But you've never read an artist bio quite like Khatia Buniatishvili's, which contains choice lines such as, "nothing can be imposed on this young lady of the air whose wing-beats pollinate works and who sprinkles a musical cloud of golden powder to the four winds." Luc...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Paris Match feature
    Posted At: August 21, 2016

    Khatia Buniatishvili, Georgian pianist dazzles with his musical genius as far as a sex appeal she emphasizes. That day, she had to play for the vast Martha Argerich. "A genius and my favorite pianist. I felt a mad joy and a lot of pressure at the same time, remembers Khatia. A few days before, visiting an Orthodox church in Vienna, someone inadvertently burned my hair with a candle. I had to shave my hea...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Kaleidoscope wins ECHO Klassik Award / AGENDA.GE
    Posted At: July 22, 2016

    Acclaimed Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has added another prize to her growing list of accolades after collecting the prestigious ECHO Klassik 2016 Award from Germany's Music Industry Association this week. Promoted by its founders as "one the most important and renowned music awards worldwide", the German prize has been granted to reveal "the most successful and outstanding achievements of G...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili releases new Sony Classical disc - Kaleidoscope
    Posted At: April 18, 2016

    Classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has astounded her audiences around the world with her virtuosic performances of the classical piano repertoire. From Lizst to Chopin to Bach and Part, she has celebrated the works like a breath of a young soul. With her most recent release, Kaleidoscope, she presents her very personal approach to each composer with accomplished reading of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at a...

  • BBC Music Magazine revisits interview with Khatia Buniatishvili
    Posted At: February 18, 2016

    In the November 2010 issue of BBC Music Magazine, we interviewed pianist Khatia Buniatishvili for our 'Rising Star' series. Now, six years on and fully risen, the flamboyant Georgian is still making waves and in our March 2016 issue, out now, speaks to Jessica Duchen about why she believes risk-taking is an essential part of an artist's life. But here, in the meantime, we revisit that first i...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili joins Armenian musicians wearing ?Forget-me-not? badges@Al Bustan International Festival
    Posted At: March 9, 2015

    On March 4 the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia performed a concert of classical music within the framework of the Al Bustan International Festival. The program included compositions by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, and Khatia Buniatishvili performed as a soloist. All the performances of the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia at the Al Bustan International Festival are dedicated to the 100th a...

  • Renaud Capucon | Khatia Buniatishvili play Chamber Music San Francisco / San Francisco Examiner
    Posted At: February 12, 2015

    From the start, violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili have had a musical relationship that was utterly natural. The virtuosos, performing together in San Francisco for the first time this week in a Chamber Music San Francisco presentation, are playing a program featuring César Franck's Violin Sonata. The melodic, sensuous, light-filled piece has special meaning for t...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili makes her Abu Dhabi debut / The National
    Posted At: January 6, 2015

    Khatia Buniatishvili is one of the most highly rated young pianists in the world, but she still feels herself to be a person out of time. The 27-year-old Georgian, who makes her Abu Dhabi debut at Manarat Al Saadiyat on January 7, describes herself as a "20th-century person", harking back to a time when she feels the world of classical music had more scope for idiosyncrasy. "Individuality and persona...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili plays with Toronto Symphony Orchestra / National Post review
    Posted At: October 3, 2014

    We all need caressing. This is why I rate the professional prospects of Khatia Buniatishvili rather high. On Thursday night the 27-year-old Georgian played Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in a manner that turned Roy Thomson Hall into a flower-laden sitting room and all the listeners (and there were plenty at this Toronto Symphony Orchestra subscription concert) into intimate f...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland is a WFMT 'New Release of the Week'
    Posted At: August 10, 2014

    Following the success of her Chopin album on Sony Classical, Khatia Buniatishvili now reveals a new, highly personal side on her album Motherland. The CD encompasses music from Bach to Pärt and from Brahms to Kancheli. Spanning a broad stylistic and historical range, the album celebrates the works that have accompanied Buniatishvili through her career, including pieces from her Georgian ho...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland / KDFC: Download Of the Week
    Posted At: July 29, 2014

    Each week KDFC - San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music, only at KDFC.com Following the success of her Chopin album on Sony Classical, Khatia Buniatishvili now reveals a new, highly personal side on her album ‘Motherland'. The CD is an intimate quest encompassing solo piano works from Bach to Pärt and from Brahms...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland / ClassicaLite review
    Posted At: July 11, 2014

    Aggregating web articles about Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, you may find that the piano virtuoso has some sort of, well, complex. Whether it be unremitting self-indulgence or excessive pride, can you knock someone who's an undeniable talent? And, to no surprise, the latest from Norman Lebrecht (entitled "Another Georgian artist with gender issues") speaks to these truths about Khatia and he...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili concert review / San Francisco Classical Voice
    Posted At: April 13, 2014

    On Sunday night at Le Petit Trianon in San José, the Steinway Society of the Bay Area presented the young Georgian-born, Paris-based pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, who played quite an ambitious program. How about Liszt's colossal B-Minor Sonata as a warm-up piece? Then follow it with Ravel's preposterously difficult transcription of his symphonic poem La Valse? Fortunately, in both of these pie...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili makes her playing unmistakable in 'Chopin'
    Posted At: October 6, 2012

    Khatia Buniatishvili has been described by The Independent as "the young Georgian firebrand." At only 24 years old, this Tblisi-born pianist has already achieved an exceptional maturity of interpretation and a distinctive artistic approach that make her playing unmistakable. For her second album on Sony Classical, Khatia now releases Chopin.  The album encompasses five works superbly showca...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili celebrates Franz Liszt's 200th birthday this fall with an album devoted to the composer
    Posted At: July 12, 2011

    The extremely gifted young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is devoting her debut album on Sony Classical, available July 5, to Franz Liszt in celebration of the composer's 200th birthday this fall. Although Buniatishvili sees herself as belonging truly to the 21st century, like the Romantics she looks for greatness in small things and for the universal in the individual. In ...
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