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Born in 1987 in Georgia, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at the age of three. She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was 6 and appeared internationally at age 10. Khatia studied in Tbilisi with Tengiz Amiredjibi and in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg.

Buniatishvili signed with Sony Classical as an exclusive artist in 2010. Her 2011 debut album included Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, Liebestraum No. 3, and Mephisto Waltz No. 1.

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83, by Johannes Brahms is separated by a gap of 22 years from his first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near Vienna.

The pianist Yuja Wang and Khatia Buniatishvilli are performing Brahms' first Hungarian Dance.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Dance / Duet / Piano

Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1 – Wang & Buniatishvili, Piano

The Hungarian Dance No. 1 is the first of the 21 Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) composed by Johannes Brahms, based mostly on Hungarian themes and completed in 1869.

Chopin – Étude Revolutionary No 12 in C Minor, - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Chopin – Revolutionary Etude – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Known as Étude Revolutionary, Chopin Étude Op 10, No 12 in C minor is dedicated “à son ami Franz Liszt” (“to his friend Franz Liszt”). The 12th Étude appeared around the same time as the November Uprising in 1831 and its first chord sounds like a gunshot.

Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Concerto in A Minor – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The work was premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Dreams of Love – Buniatishvili, Piano

Dreams of Love is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 by Franz Liszt. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

Liszt - Transcendental Etude No 5, Feux Follets - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

Scriabin - Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No 1 - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude

Scriabin – Etude in C-Sharp Minor – Buniatishvili, Piano

Scriabin’s Etude in C-Sharp Minor was written in 1887, when the composer was just 15 years old. It was the first of the Three Pieces, Op. 2, and was one of Alexander Scriabin’s earliest successes.

Liszt - Grand Galop Chromatique - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Grand Galop Chromatique – Buniatishvili, Piano

Grand galop chromatique in E-flat major, S.219 is a bravura piece by Franz Liszt, composed in 1838. This gallop was one of Liszt’s favorite encores which he considered a “rouser.” …

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

Piano / Concerto / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Grieg – Piano Concerto – Khatia Buniatishvili

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and is among the most popular of all piano concerti.