The fiery pianist Khatia Buniatishvili possesses not only talent but also the rare gift of charisma. At ease in the spotlight, her exuberance, showmanship and communication skills have won her a wide audience.
Keywords: Early Music, Piano Recital
| Khatia Buniatishvili | Piano |
| Quatre impromptus op. 90, D899 | Franz Schubert |
| Sonate n° 2 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Ballade n° 4 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mephisto-Walz n° 1 | Franz Liszt |
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Piano star Khatia Buniatishvili, a virtuoso with a brilliant career and a remarkable aura, surrounds herself with some of her closest friends for a celebration of music featuring some of the composers she holds most dear.
Following April’s duo recital with her sister, Khatia Buniatishvili takes centre stage in a programme exploring the relationship between Chopin and prolific woman-of-letters George Sand.
Khatia Buniatishvili performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led by Fabio Luisi. The orchestra also plays Nielsen's Symphony No. 2 and Sørensen's "Evening Land." A special children's program is available during the first half.
At the tender age of five Mikko Franck (b. Helsinki, 1979) knew that he wanted to become a conductor, and by 17 he had already launched his professional career. Like many of his famous colleagues from Finland, he honed his skills with the great conducting teacher Jorma Panula. Currently he heads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Alongside Franck, the young Franco-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili – known for her passionate and extroverted readings – will give her BRSO début in a work thoroughly in keeping with her emotional delivery: Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Composed after a severe crisis, it is perhaps the most personal and rapturous of his four piano concertos. Bruckner’s Seventh is likewise associated with a personal turning point: it was with this symphony that the 60-year-old composer finally gained widespread recognition. The Seventh has retained its popularity to the present day.
At the tender age of five Mikko Franck (b. Helsinki, 1979) knew that he wanted to become a conductor, and by 17 he had already launched his professional career. Like many of his famous colleagues from Finland, he honed his skills with the great conducting teacher Jorma Panula. Currently he heads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Alongside Franck, the young Franco-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili – known for her passionate and extroverted readings – will give her BRSO début in a work thoroughly in keeping with her emotional delivery: Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Composed after a severe crisis, it is perhaps the most personal and rapturous of his four piano concertos. Bruckner’s Seventh is likewise associated with a personal turning point: it was with this symphony that the 60-year-old composer finally gained widespread recognition. The Seventh has retained its popularity to the present day.
At the tender age of five Mikko Franck (b. Helsinki, 1979) knew that he wanted to become a conductor, and by 17 he had already launched his professional career. Like many of his famous colleagues from Finland, he honed his skills with the great conducting teacher Jorma Panula. Currently he heads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Alongside Franck, the young Franco-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili – known for her passionate and extroverted readings – will give her BRSO début in a work thoroughly in keeping with her emotional delivery: Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Composed after a severe crisis, it is perhaps the most personal and rapturous of his four piano concertos. Bruckner’s Seventh is likewise associated with a personal turning point: it was with this symphony that the 60-year-old composer finally gained widespread recognition. The Seventh has retained its popularity to the present day.
The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!
Our current Artist Spotlight, Khatia Buniatishvili, joins forces with her sister Gvantsa for an exhilarating evening of piano duo music from Mozart to Gershwin via Ravel.
»You can really move the audience deeply if you give everything you’ve got at a performance, as if you were playing for the very last time.« This approach, as simple as it is radical, is probably the secret of Khatia Buniatishvili’s success: her unerring artistic honesty spreads directly to the audience, which greets every one of her appearances with frenzied acclaim. The Georgian star pianist plays one of her favourite pieces in Hamburg tonight: Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, which has been one of the absolute evergreens of the piano repertoire since it was first performed in 1875. After the interval, the Taiwan Philharmonic under its chief conductor Jun Märkl sets a lively contrast to the dramatic Tchaikovsky in the shape of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.
Since his revelation at the Geneva Competition in 1990, Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner has proven one most captivating performers of his generation. In particular with Chopin, Debussy and Schumann, whose works he never tires of reexploring at the piano.
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