Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano
Labyrinth
Performers
Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano
Program
SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1
CHOPIN Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4
CHOPIN Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor
J. S. BACH "Air on the G String" from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 (transcr. Khatia Buniatishvili)
SCHUBERT Impromptu in G-flat Major, D. 899, No. 3
LISZT "Ständchen" from Lieder aus Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang
CHOPIN Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53
CHOPIN Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4
COUPERIN "Les baricades mistérieuses" from Sixième ordre, Second Livre de pièces de clavecin
LISZT Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (after J. S. Bach)
LISZT Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor (transcr. Vladimir Horowitz)
Encore:
GAINSBOURG "La Javanaise" (transcr. Khatia Buniatishvili)
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.At a Glance
The unifying thread that runs through the dozen short pieces on Khatia Buniatishvili’s program isn’t immediately apparent. If the even more varied selection of music featured on her recent recording titled Labyrinth is any guide, the theme of tonight’s concert may be as much metaphysical as musical. In her characteristically philosophical commentary for the album, the pianist associates the labyrinthine nature of the human mind with “the discoveries and disappearances of civilizations, epochs, genres.” In that light, a concert program can perhaps be seen as a paradigm for life itself. As Buniatishvili writes, “In these twists and turns, we cannot see where the exit is, and we further complicate a more straightforward path. Approaching an end while looking for an exit, an endless striving for freedom, a dependence on the unknowable is our fate; to create inside the labyrinth so as to endure—our achievement, even though this may well disappear together with ourselves …”