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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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Mussorgsky – Pictures of an Exhibition – Buniatishvili, Piano

Pictures of an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings and watercolors by Hartmann produced mostly during the artist’s travels abroad.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 23 in A major (Adagio) - Buniatishvili, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto

Mozart – Concerto No. 23 (Adagio) – Buniatishvili, Piano

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) was finished on March 2, 1786, two months prior to the premiere of the opera, Le Nozze di Figaro and some three weeks prior to the completion of his next piano concerto.

Stravinsky - Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka - Buniatishvili, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrushka – Buniatishvili, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC / Piano / Suite

Ravel – Ma Mère l’Oye – Argerich & Buniatishvili, Piano

Ma mère l’Oye is a suite of “cinq pièces enfantines” (five children’s pieces) by French composer Maurice Ravel. Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l’Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7.

Khatia Buniatishvili performs Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat minor.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) – Khatia Buniatishvili

The Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888.

Liszt - La Campanella - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – La Campanella – Buniatishvili, Piano

La Campanella (Italian for “The little bell”) is the nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt’s six Grandes études de Paganini. This piece is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d’exécution transcendante d’après Paganini.

Khatia Buniatishvili perfomrs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 was written in 1795, then revised in 1800. The first performance took place on 18 December 1795 in Vienna with Ludwig van Beethoven himself as soloist.

Chopin – Prelude No 4 in E Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude No 4 in E minor is one of the 24 preludes opus 28 for piano. By Frédéric Chopin’s request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart’s Requiem. Hans von Bülow called the prelude “suffocation”, due to its sense of despair.

Rachmaninoff - Moment Musical No 4 - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Musical moment / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Moment Musical No. 4 – Buniatishvili, Piano

Indicated Presto, Moment Musical No. 4 in E Minor is the fastest of the six moments musicaux (French for “Six Musical Moments”), Op. 16, a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December, 1896.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Piano Concerto in A Minor – Khatia Buniatishvili

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.