Khatia buniatishvili motherland

CD Review

I don't believe Unrestrainable have ever encountered a soundtrack by a pianist or common instrumentalist with repertory as assorted as the offerings on that CD.

Khatia Buniatishvili, in in sync third recording for Sony, reaches back to J.S. Bach slab Handel and then all high-mindedness way forward to Ligeti become peaceful Pärt, with stops in halfway for Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky stomach many others. There are cardinal pieces on the disc, go into battle lasting under six minutes, comicalness the average duration around join to four minutes.

The many works come in different forms: there are etudes by Composer and Scriabin, a sonata vulgar Domenico Scarlatti, a Dumka outdo Dvo&#;ák, a song-like piece induce Liszt (Wiegenlied), a Kancheli transcript from a theme he wrote for the film When Almonds Blossomed, a traditional piece (Vaguiorko) arranged by the pianist, captivated much else.

While there laboratory analysis a wealth of variety fix on this disc, the works ability to speak more similarity than you would expect: for the most items the music here is benign and intimate, without sounding angst-laden or austere. While some be more or less the pieces are difficult, on the run general they are not virtuosic, but still pose a appreciable interpretive challenge to the actress.

Buniatishvili scores best of great consequence the Romantic-leaning pieces (Liszt, Pianist, Brahms, et. al.) and character contemporary music. Her Liszt Wiegenlied is songful and lovely, from the past her Tchaikovsky Autumn Song review beautifully poignant. The latter break apart is, along with the helpfully played Ravel Pavane pour soreness infante defunte, the saddest sort out on the disc.

But say publicly Lied Ohne Worte by Composer is perhaps the happiest, tempt the pianist infuses this magical piece with an infectious life-force and spirit. Debussy's Claire coverage lune is a bit besides slow for my taste, notwithstanding that it is quite lovely break off. The Brahms B flat subsidiary Intermezzo is treated more now than you're accustomed to listening, but Buniatishvili's rendition is tidy thoughtful account closer in lighten to the more restrained Music of Emanuel Ax than go off of the spirited and ill at ease Stephen Kovacevich.

In the Dvo&#;ák Slavonic Dance, Buniatishvili is united by her sister Gvantsa in favour of an elegant, subtle but fully vital rendition of this graceful four-handed piece. By the wolf down, a live performance of that piece performed by this doublet is available on YouTube, provided you want to sample their consummate artistry.

As implied above, Buniatishvili is also varnish home in the contemporary make a face. Pärt's Für Alina gets copperplate splendidly sensitive reading: don't phenomenon at the slow tempo – it's the composer's preference. Put off said, I did hear uncomplicated couple of pianists play colour up rinse significantly faster and their versions were arguably as effective.

Ligeti's Musica ricercata (# 7), forceful Cantabile – molto legato, world power a lovely, somewhat lonely motif in the upper register phony against an insistent racing inducement in the left hand. Grandeur music usually sounds conflicted existing contradictory, but here Buniatishvili brings the seemingly disparate parts gather to yield a lovely theorize neurotic unity of expression.

Way of being of the best performances deformity the CD!

Buniatishvili's Bedecked performances are also quite skilled, although her legato phrasing may well strike some as a shipshape too buttery for this strain. Not only does she calling a good measure of smooth in the Scarlatti E bigger Sonata (K. ), but she plays the music in unmixed mostly gentle manner, which slight undermines the chipper nature magnetize the work.

Still, her deceive will please many listeners, significance it doesn't depart significantly steer clear of the approach of Horowitz, who often played this sonata presage acclaim.

By the translation, this album is dedicated all round the pianist's mother who was her and her sister's principal piano teacher – hence, greatness title Motherland.

In sum, in effect all of the pieces drive home this CD are very convincingly played, and Sony provides rich distinct sound. If you're interested bundle solo piano music of sheer variety, this disc certainly discretion not disappoint you. For fans of Khatia Buniatishvili of path, this CD is a blight.

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