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As she has demonstrated in her critically acclaimed albums of the keyboard music of Liszt and Chopin, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is a stunning virtuoso with impressive skills and her dynamic playing compels listening. However, for her 2014 Sony album, Motherland, she finds subtle expressions in her favorite character pieces, and none of them could be considered showstoppers. Most of the selections reflect calm and intimate moods, typified by Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze, Tchaikovsky's Autumn Song, Debussy's Clair de lune, and Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte, while the liveliest pieces, which include Mendelssohn's Song Without Words in F sharp minor, György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 7, Dvorák's Slavonic Dance in E minor, and Scarlatti's Sonata in E major, offer rather modest displays of technique. Instead of dazzling her listeners, Buniatishvili is putting forward her personal, private side in this understated program, and the key to her selections is the sense of yearning that these pieces evoke. The most passionate outpouring of emotion comes in her own arrangement of Vaguiorko ma, a Georgian folk song that surely must hold a special place in her emotional world. Because this is a gentle and poignant album, listeners may find it is best appreciated in a quiet space with few distractions.
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Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Egon Petri, Transcriber - Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
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Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Giya Kancheli, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - György Ligeti, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Franz Liszt, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Antonin Dvorak, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Gvantsa Buniatishvili, Associated Performer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Maurice Ravel, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Frédéric Chopin, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Alexandre Scriabine, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Domenico Scarlatti, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Edvard Grieg, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Arranger, Main Artist, Piano, Arranger, Piano - Traditional, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Wilhelm Kempff, Arranger - Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Georg Friedrich Händel, Composer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Khatia Buniatishvili, Main Artist, Piano, Piano - Arvo Pärt, Composer - Andreas Neubronner, Producer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
As she has demonstrated in her critically acclaimed albums of the keyboard music of Liszt and Chopin, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is a stunning virtuoso with impressive skills and her dynamic playing compels listening. However, for her 2014 Sony album, Motherland, she finds subtle expressions in her favorite character pieces, and none of them could be considered showstoppers. Most of the selections reflect calm and intimate moods, typified by Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze, Tchaikovsky's Autumn Song, Debussy's Clair de lune, and Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte, while the liveliest pieces, which include Mendelssohn's Song Without Words in F sharp minor, György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 7, Dvorák's Slavonic Dance in E minor, and Scarlatti's Sonata in E major, offer rather modest displays of technique. Instead of dazzling her listeners, Buniatishvili is putting forward her personal, private side in this understated program, and the key to her selections is the sense of yearning that these pieces evoke. The most passionate outpouring of emotion comes in her own arrangement of Vaguiorko ma, a Georgian folk song that surely must hold a special place in her emotional world. Because this is a gentle and poignant album, listeners may find it is best appreciated in a quiet space with few distractions.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:40
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Khatia Buniatishvili
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
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