Khatia Buniatishvili - Prokofiev - Piano Sonata N. 7 Op 83

[@peter6534]

This is sublime and incandescent. What an artist she is.

[@GeorgeJazzVideos]

Stunning!! The same reasons her detractors cite as criticisms are the exact things that make her amazing to me. She performs and interprets pieces her own way. Oh my....how outrageous!!! I have been playing jazz for most of my life and its amusing to me to hear those critics of classic performers cite interpretation (different from what they deem appropriate) as a negative. In the jazz world that very thing is one of its greatest assets. Your own voice. I know many will disregard my comment. So be it. I would just say to wander over to our world to see some people push the boundaries. Consider living your life according to how other think you should....down to the smallest details. Not a life I would want to live. Cheers all!! Music! The Wonderful Gift all these artists are gracious enough to share with us! Bless them all for bringing that light into our lives....and our soul! ❤🙏

[@LorenzoCacciotti]

It is one thing to interpret, another is to simplify

[@ciararespect4296]

​@@LorenzoCacciottiexactly. She's definitely cheating

[@nihilistlemon1995]

​@ciararespect4296 I mean the guy above is a jazz musician . So playing wrong notes and pretending to be jazz is their thing .

[@raffaelelazzaronimusic]

I. Allegro inquieto (0:21) II. Andante caloroso (8:00) III. Precipitato (14:50)

[@lordleo9047]

4:12 WHAT!! ARE YOU SERIOUS?? she's just showing off at that point

[@mariodisarli1022]

THE GUARDIAN classical music Wigmore Hall, London Andrew Clements Thursday 2 April 2015 12.28 BST "The jury is out whether Buniatishvili can ever be a serious artist after a shapeless Pictures at an Exhibition and Liszt as a low - grade circus act." There’s no doubting Khatia Buniatishvili’s talent. The Georgian pianist has an imposing technique at her disposal and, when she puts her mind to it, the ability to produce moments of insight and refined sensibility. She is in her late 20s now, at a time in her life when most pianists are turning early promise into real achievement, but to judge by the rash, immature playing in her latest London appearance, Buniatishvili is still some way from doing that. Her programme - Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and a sequence of Liszt - was clearly designed for effect, and to have her fans on their feet and cheering at the end; predictably, they obliged. Pictures, though, had no shape at all, with the slower movements ponderously slow - Il Vecchio Castello was interminable - and faster ones lightning fast, so that they became trivialised, and Buniatishvili kicked up such a storm in The Hut on Fowl’s Legs that the dramatic effect of the segue into the final Great Gate of Kiev, one of the clinching moments in the whole work, was fatally undermined. That tendency to extremes - the thinking that ever faster, ever louder, is automatically the best way to go - ran through the Liszt pieces too. Three studies from different sets, La Leggierezza, Feux Follets and La Campanella, at least allowed everyone to admire the pearly evenness of Buniatishvili’s fingering, but apart from a rather unconvincing Liebesträume to begin, around them were pieces that encouraged her to be as noisy as possible: the first Mephisto Waltz (not insidious, just rowdy), the Grand Galop Chromatique (turned into a low-grade circus act) and the second Hungarian Rhapsody - played, of course, in Vladimir Horowitz’s version, which adds tweaks and further elaborations to Liszt’s original. The good news is that the piano survived it all intact; the bad is that on the question of whether Buniatishvili can ever be a serious artist, the jury is very much still out.

[@hyramesshiramess1035]

Mario DiSarli "Critics are those who have FAILED in Music and Art" ~ Albert Schweitzer

[@johndoily9407]

Yup that sums it up. Critics actually do a great service. They show our faults, no matter how jarring. Artists who attack their critics are just butt-hurt musicians wanting their 2nd- (or 3rd-) rate work recognized. Just because you toiled away at something does not mean it was a worthy endeavor.

[@willemboone7912]

The last movement is such a mess, there are more wrong than right notes!

[@安海無人]

他の人のコメントも賛否両論みたいだけど、特に有名な3楽章は個性的ですね。 まるでなでるような打鍵と、異常に速いテンポ。あまりにも異形な演奏で、終結部は、もはや打鍵ミスなのか、ジャズの即興演奏みたいにわざと音を変えてるのか、それすらも良く分らない・・・ Other people's comments seem to be mixed,and the famous third movement is particularly unique. The keystrokes sound as if she is stroking, and the tempo is abnormally fast. Especially the conclusion is so atypical that I'm not even sure if ithey are just playing errors or if the notes are deliberately changed, like a jazz improvisation...

[@konigstephan]

ouch

[@mac1024]

If she didn't play so fast in the last movement the whole thing wouldn't be be full of mistakes. The last 30 seconds were barely recognizable.

[@msc1978]

Ужас

[@ciararespect4296]

Far more attractive than wang

[@richardvolpe7664]

Not even worthy of commentary.