Khatia Buniatishvili Labyrinth (2xLP)

Khatia Buniatishvili Labyrinth (2xLP)

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Condition: Brand New Description Release details Tracklist Khatia Buniatishvili's new recording for Sony Classical is as imaginative, sensitive and philosophical as the multi-award-winning pianist

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Khatia Buniatishvili's new recording for Sony Classical is as imaginative, sensitive and philosophical as the multi-award-winning pianist herself. The concept album "Labyrinth" explores the immeasurable quest that is human life. Like a film, it traces a development: Procrastination, melancholy, sensuality, joy and suffering - all from the perspective of a woman enlightened by self-reflection and wisdom.
Recorded in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris, it creates its own almost unreal space by using the richly pictorial tonal language of composers from Scarlatti to Morricone, from Bach to Glass.
The labyrinth, says the French-Georgian pianist, is fate and creation, impasse and redemption - a polyphony of life, of the senses, of reminiscent dreams, of the neglected present; unexpected or expected turns of the spoken or unspoken ... the labyrinth of our minds.
With "Labyrinth", Khatia Buniatishvili presents her most colourful and varied selection of music to date. With her typical lack of compromise, she puts her extraordinary piano playing at the service of the imagination and describes - with all its joys and sorrows - a woman's dance with life.
The album includes film music by Philip Glass (The Hours) and the recently deceased Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America), about whom Khatia Buniatishvili says "he deserves his place among the greats." Also included are piano pictures by Erik Satie and Serge Gainsbourg, a Latin American dance by Heitor Villa-Lobos, an Estonian prayer by Arvo Prt, a Hungarian etude by Gyrgy Ligeti, John Cage's infamous presentation of musical silence, and works by Scarlatti, Brahms, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Couperin and Liszt.
For the album, Khatia Buniatishvili also arranged some pieces herself, such as Bach's Badinerie for piano four hands and his Sicilienne BWV 596 after Vivaldi's D minor Concerto RV 565.
Khatia Buniatishvili is a unique phenomenon in classical music: the delicacy of her touch is incomparable, and with the flair of a film director she manages to tell stories and put them in the right light. The pianist works closely with top musicians such as Zubin Mehta, Paavo Jrvi and Gidon Kremer, with whom she has also recorded several CDs.
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Artist: Khatia Buniatishvili Label: Sony Classical Format: LP Units: 2 Country: Europe Genre: Classical Style: Baroque, Classical, Contemporary, Romantic
A1 Deborah'S Theme
A2 Gymnopdie No.1
A3 Prlude In E Minor Op. 28/4
A4 Arc-En-Ciel
A5 Badinerie
B1 Air On The G String
B2 Vocalise Op. 34/14
B3 La Javanaise
B4 Valsa Da Dor
C1 Les Barricades Mystrieuses
C2 Sicilienne
C3 Intermezzo In A Major Op. 118/2
C4 Pari Intervallo
D1 I'M Going To Make A Cake
D2 Sonata In D Minor K 32
D3 Consolation (Pense Potique) In D-Flat Major S 172/3
D4 4'33''
D5 Adagio