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Khatia Buniatishvili:

Labyrinth

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:

Schubert

Having blazed her way into public consciousness with her fearlessness on stage as well as on record, Georgian-born pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has become known for her distinctive artistic approach and bold interpretive flair, which combine to make her playing and performances both unmistakable and unmissable.

Celebrated by media around the world, she has been described by The Observer as "one of today's most exciting and technically gifted young pianists", while Madame Figaro has called her "the popstar of the classical music world", adding that "with Khatia Buniatishvili, only the repertoire is classical. As for the rest, there's no limit."

Khatia Buniatishvili:

Kaleidoscope

Sony Classical releases pianist Khatia Buniatishvili's new album Kaleidoscope. The recording includes Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," a genius musical translation inspired by a collection of art, and Ravel's "La Valse." Plus, three movements from Stravinsky's ballet "Petrushka," works that all exist in two versions for piano and orchestra, choreographed as a ballet. The consciously ambiguous title of the album comes from Khatia's idea that "the richness of color in this music reminds me of a kaleidoscope. It is one person's gaze at excerpts from reality at a very specific moment." With these words, she is hinting that a work like "Pictures at an Exhibition" is not mere material for virtuosity, but rather a "highly personal work."

8 Total 54 Total
SYND: C24, Classical Music Indy, CBC
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, MOOD
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Austin, New Orleans, Canada
Online: AccuRadio, Taintradio, Passion Musique et Culture

Khatia Buniatishvili:

Motherland

For her third recording on CD, Motherland, Khatia Buniatishvili reveals a new, highly personal side to herself. Under the title MOTHERland this album combines works from Bach to Pärt and from Brahms to Kancheli in which longing for home, the merriment of a folk dance or the eternal cycle of growth and decay in nature can be heard. These are quiet, dreamy pieces, most of them not written for the concert hall but expressing a personal quest – for peace, a protected place, childlike freedom from care.

32 New 'ON' 37 TOTAL
SYND: PRI/Classical 24
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, MOOD
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Portland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Madison WI
Online: MusiClassical, WGOE

Khatia Buniatishvili:

Chopin

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, and the album encompasses five works superbly showcasing the breadth of her skills as a pianist. Chopin's Sonata No. 2, op. 35, in formal and pianistic terms, is one of the most consummate works of the post-Beethoven period and above all known for its fascinatingly, strangely scurrying finale, which Robert Schumann compared to the mocking smile of a sphinx. The unprecedentedly lavish Ballade No. 4, op. 54 is extremely demanding, both technically and artistically. Waltz No. 2, op. 64, is suffused with Slavic heavyheartedness, while Mazurka No. 4, op. 17 concludes enigmatically, as if with an open question. This Polish folk dance is also the basis for the finale of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2.

94 New 'ON' this week: 94 Total
SYND: Classical 24
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Portland, Austin, Denver, New Orleans, Louisville KY, San Antonio
Online: RadioIO, Taintradio

Khatia Buniatishvili:

Franz Liszt

The extremely gifted young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is devoting her debut album on Sony Classical 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 the music of Liszt, she seeks and finds her idea of musical completeness and pianistic perfection, saying that "only he would enable me to present as a unity the many aspects of my soul."

19 New 'ON' this week: 61

Synd: PRI: Classical 24, The Romantic Hours
Direct: Music Choice, In-Flight
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Antonio

Online: Taintradio