Khatia Buniatishvili..... Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday..... [yt]
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| Posted on April 26, 2016 at 00:23:16 | ||
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Pianist and conductor teamed up the Israel Philharmonic to perform Tchaikovsky's First Concerto....... This was a unique performance.... Khatia took an unorthodox approach to the concerto, and it came out all Tchaikovsky..... More frenetic than deliberate, a good thing with this composer..... Zubin got a Concertgebouw-like cohesiveness from the Israelis, the whole turned out to be far greater than the sum of its parts. This is not a performance for the note-perfect crowd. Ms. Buniatishvili plays as if her favorite pianist was Horowitz.... The explosiveness and passion are rare nowadays..... I was in love. Khatia responded to the rhythmic applause from the audience with an enthralling encore of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2. And finally, a celebration of Zubin Mehta's 80th birthday..... This took place roughly two weeks ago.   
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| Khatia is definitely not a partisan of the "every note in its place" school!, posted on April 26, 2016 at 09:39:08 | |
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I love how, at the beginning, she comes in noticeably faster than the tempo that Mehta has set, as if to say, "C'mon, let's move this thing along!". And her short-changing of the longer notes in this opening section gives a feeling of impetuousness (or perhaps merely a sense of impatience!). And on the very last note in the piece, I love how she plays a tremolo instead of the written octave. Lots of stray notes, but you're definitely right that, overall, she conveys the "explosiveness and passion" of the concerto. I still think she's one of the most interesting pianists around these days. Even so, the encore (the Liszt - and not the original in the "friska" - fast - secion, but some other arrangement. I haven't kept up, so I don't know whose it is) has too much junk in it (wrong or poorly articulated notes) for me. I still love Khatia anyway, and I can't deny the excitement she creates, wrong notes and all. (BTW, I was getting what sounded like overload distortion in the louder sections of the concerto.)  (Khatia with Chris from Coldplay - I guess she played on their latest album. I don't know if she played in that bathrobe she's wearing, or if the gown underneath was just too revealing - LOL!) I also finally found where there's a hi-rez (24/192) download of Khatia's latest album. It's at Acoustic Sounds - I'll try to download it today and report on it.   Khatia's latest ablum - 24/192 download at Acoustic Sounds Finally, here's a recent recital that Khatia gave in Paris, including an unexpected (from her anyway) Haydn Sonata (the C-minor) and the same Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2:
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| Watch out if you think you are the only person who is right! :) nt, posted on April 30, 2016 at 06:58:36 | |
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