The young pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is a unique phenomenon in classical music: her playing and her recordings for Sony Classical are highly praised, with the instinct of a film director she manages to tell stories with the music and put them in the right light, and she achieves them huge numbers of people, including many younger ones, on social media. All of her albums reached high positions in the classical charts, and Buniatishvili received numerous awards for her recordings, including the Echo Klassik Prize. The new album “Labyrinth” is just as imaginative, sensitive and philosophical as the pianist herself. “Labyrinth” pursues the immeasurable search that defines human life. As in a film, it traces a development through the music chosen by Buniatisvhili: procrastination, melancholy, sensuality, joy and sorrow – all from the point of view of a woman enlightened through self-reflection and cleverness. The album recorded in the “Grande Salle Pierre Boulez” in the Philharmonie de Paris creates its own, almost unreal space by making use of the tonal language rich in images of composers from Scarlatti to Morricone, from Bach to Glass. “The labyrinth,” says the Paris-based pianist, who also speaks fluent German, “is fate and creation, dead end and redemption – a polyphony of life, of the senses, of remembering dreams, of the neglected present; unexpected or expected turns of speech or the unspoken … the labyrinth of our mind “. With the album “Labyrinth”, Buniatishivili presents her most colorful and varied selection of music to date. With the uncompromisingness that is typical for her, she puts her extraordinary piano playing at the service of the imagination and describes – with all joys and sorrows – a womans dance with life. The album includes film music by Philip Glass (from “The Hours”) and the recently deceased Ennio Morricone (Debora´s theme from “Once Upon a Time in America”), piano pictures by Erik Satie and Serge Gainsbourg, a Latin American dance by Heitor Villa -Lobos, an Estonian prayer by Arvo Pärt, a Hungarian etude by György Ligeti, but also John Cages famous presentation of musical silence and works by Scarlatti, Brahms, Bach, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Couperin and Liszt. Khatia Buniatishvili also arranged some pieces for the album himself, such as Bachs “Badinerie” for piano four hands and his “Sicilienne” BWV 596 based on Vivaldis D minor concerto RV 565. When listening, Labyrinth unfolds a magical pull, a labyrinth of music , in which there are always new, fascinating twists – and which you actually dont want to find out. A1 Deborahs Theme 5:22 A2 Gymnopédie No.1 3:31 A3 Prélude In E Minor Op. 28/4 2:48 A4 Arc-En-Ciel 4:07 A5 Badinerie 1:20 B1 Air On The G String 5:19 B2 Vocalise Op. 34/14 6:18 B3 La Javanaise 3:23 B4 Valsa Da Dor 5:21 C1 Les Barricades Mystérieuses 2:24 C2 Sicilienne 2:53 C3 Intermezzo In A Major Op. 118/2 7:35 C4 Pari Intervallo 7:50 D1 Im Going To Make A Cake 3:05 D2 Sonata In D Minor K 32 4:43 D3 Consolation (Pensée Poétique) In D-Flat Major S 172/3 5:13 D4 433 4:33 D5 Adagio 3:51
