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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 – Baba Yaga (Pictures of an Exhibition) – Buniatishvili, Piano

Baba Yaga, The Hut on Hen’s Legs, is the ninth piece of Pictures of an Exhibition, a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

Schubert-Liszt – Ständchen (Serenade) – Buniatishvili, Piano

Franz Schubert composed a number of works known as Ständchen (serenade). Franz Liszt’s transcription for piano solo is the fourth lied from Schwanengesang, a collection of songs written by Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously.

Debussy - Clair de Lune (Moonlight) - Buniatishvili, Piano

IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC / Suite

Debussy – Moonlight – Buniatishvili, Piano

Clair de Lune (Moonlight) in D-Flat Major is the third and most famous movement from Claude Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. Its name comes from Verlaine’s poem “Clair de lune”, which means “moonlight” in French.

Piano / 20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Tango

Piazzola – Libertango – Khatia & Gvantsa Buniatishvili, Piano

Libertango is a composition by tango composer Astor Piazzolla, recorded and published in 1974 in Milan. The title is a portmanteau merging “Libertad” (Spanish for liberty) and “Tango”, symbolizing Piazzolla’s break from Classical Tango to Tango Nuevo.

Chopin - Scherzo No 3 in C-Sharp Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 3 – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Scherzo No 3 Op. 39 in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Waltz

Ravel – La Valse – Buniatishvili, Piano

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Concerto for Piano No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano 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 / CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano / Transcription

Schubert-Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnrade – Buniatishvili, Piano

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 18 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust.

Bach - Concerto for 2 keyboards - Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili

BAROQUE MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Bach – Concerto for Two Keyboards – Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili

The well-known Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 is the basis of the transcription for this Concerto for two keyboards. It was transposed down a tone to allow the top note E6 to be reached as D6, the common top limit on harpsichords of the time.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Intermezzo / Piano

Brahms – Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 2 – Buniatishvili, Piano

Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 2 in B-Flat Minor is the second of the three Intermezzi for piano composed by Johannes Brahms in 1892 for solo piano.