There is such total power and control in her playing. It feels like not a single sound, vibration or overtone is accidental. As if she is sculpting the sound meticulously as it hovers above the piano. I am always in awe of her mastery.
We used this piece at my beloved mother's funeral just 3 days ago to accompany a slide show of photos of her life from a baby with her parents to a child with her 3 siblings, to a school girl, to getting married, to her having her 5 children to having her grand and great-grandchildren into her old age, dying aged 97 after many moves to many places including Algeria during its terrible war of independence in the 1950s - a whole lifetime in just over 6 minutes of music. The music of Schubert was a perfect accompaniment to these photos, in fact I cannot get over just how perfect this music was - what a lovely tune it opens with and how many lovely tunes Schubert composed!. Schubert was a genius and yes, Khatia plays this with feeling, tenderness and great artistry. This music will forever remind me of my Mum who also loved Schubert's impromptus. RIP Margaret Stedeford
I'm learning this piece right now and your story is very touching. I'm sorry for your loss, but thanks for sharing, it really inspires me to understand better the power of this piece and put my heart in it. Thank you so much.
Your story touches my heart. I hope your mother lives forever in your loving memories. Also I am certain your mother now is in her Creator's place, in absolute peace and tendernrss.
immer mal wieder höre ich andere Interpretationen zum Vergleich- und doch komme ich immer wieder hier her zurück. für mich bleibt sie die innigste, einfühlsamste. unübertroffen.
Schubert was for a long time one of the most underrated composers, I'm very happy that more and more of people are discovering his talent and genius, but that make me think how many other great composers lay there forgotten by the time for different reasons, with beautiful pieces we maybe will never hear and appreciate.
She plays sublimely. And she always takes you by surprise. What a wonderful gift she has. Of her generation, she stands out for me... always willing to take risks and, god forgive, never giving a routine performance of anything. This is mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing it.
I would like to thank all of those Mothers who instilled a love of music in their children. We can all see and hear what wonder and joy these musicians bring to the world. Khatia brings me such joy that I can't wait to get up in the morning and listen to her once again. So ... to the Mothers who made their children practice all of those hour, to the makers of such wonderful pianos, to TH-cam and to Khatia Buniatishvilli , Thank You
I just know that feeling, when you are playing, and you are just caught up in it and lost in the magic of the music, and the world suddenly seems small and comforting for a moment, and it is heavenly, that feeling. I yearn for it more and more as I learn to feel with my fingertips, and see with my ears, and hear with my heart. Thank you Khatia, for love.
That was beyond perfection Khatia! No one could possibly perform that piece any better than this! Your touch is brilliant, full of fire but gentle as a summer breeze in the soft areas. Schubert would be very, very pleased to hear his composition played on this grand level. Thank you so much Khatia for this unforgettable recital. I just loved it!!!
I've always thought Schubert is a hugely underrated composer, this piece tipifies this, it has everything, pathos, drama, feeling, virtuosiry and its not especially well known, but its wonderful and this rendition is just beautiful!
The music she plays is never trivialized. Not only does she know it well but treats it as if it is sacred. She may be the most accomplished pianist performing at this time.
I have fallen in love with Khatia just listening to her express her inner soul through her music and she'll never know who i am. That is how she touched me with her music. She's an angel.
People would ask what are the differences between Khatia's piano playing and other female or male pianists. Well, If you just listened to a CD, it's okay. But if you viewed on TH-cam, watched her and any other pianists playing the same concerto, you'd immediately notice the differences between them; not just a little bit but a lot. Khatia let you understand and experience more of the lyrics of this concerto, allowed you to know more about those composers when they composed those works, not just by her intoxicated body language and expression. She was actually completely immersed in every note and the music that made her complete. She was completely melted in it, talking with the composer and his concerto. You'd become more understanding and more passionate to his emotions when he composed this concerto. Khatia made it become more alive, more vividly colorful. And don't overlook the fact that when she played that night, she obviously caught cold with some light runny nose, so you saw that she asked the conductor to give her a handkerchief to wipe her nose. But didn't you notice, once she start to play, once her fingers touched the keys, all the cold symptoms were immediately disappeared, the music and what she played, actually comforted her. The other thing that amazed me by Khatia is (was) that almost every concerto or piano piece she played, she almost never paid too much attention to the keyboard, almost never looked at those keys. When the camera opposite the piano took her images, sometimes you couldn't even tell if she's playing, but in fact she was. That's what the difference between her and most of the other female or male pianists and how naturally superior to others. Her virtuosity gave us more opportunity to know better about every piece of music. It'd become a poem, a poetry, a love story, a romance.... that's not possible by just listening to or from a CD. She'd not just playing it, she's talking to you and to herself at the same time, she's telling you a wonderful story. Because she herself IS THE MUSIC and all the composers were fulfilled by her!
Ίσως επειδή σ' αυτή της την παρουσία δεν φοράει ξέκολο φουστάνι !! Δεν παύει όμως να είναι υπέροχη όπως πάντα.΄ Ακόμα λένε πως υπέροχος είναι και ο χαρακτήρας της όπως λένε αυτοί που είχαν την τύχη να την συναναστραφούν. Μπράβο της !!
Deep tenderness and power, submitted to the piano with high virtuosity. It is not for nothing that Khatia Buinatishvili is considered one of the best pianists in the world, today.
Welch unbegrenzte Gnade und Liebe muss Gott dabei überkommen sein; als er dieses Herz zum Schlagen brachte .... Khatia - . Die Musikwelt dankt deinem Schöpfer.
Chopin (favorite) wrote beautiful melodic lines. But his innovation was in how he "dressed" that melody with rich harmonic textures and progressions. Schubert's the best lyricist closely followed by Mozart.
This performance is so very beautiful on so many different levels (the score, the heart felt execution, the instrument, the setting, and the musician). The world needs more of this! Much respect…Thank you!
It's the way she connects with the piece - the expression on her face, the calmness one gets from her interpretation, that part of what she plays that words can never do justice to describe - that makes one agree, without a doubt, that even Schubert would be smiling in heaven to hear his work being played here so phenomenally on a Steinway. Many thanks, Khatia.
Schubert is one of the few composers who can move me and stir up emotions that are so deep within me. It is so sad he died at aged 31. What a tragedy for Classical music to have him die so young. He could have composed so many more pieces for us to enjoy had he lived until at least age 50.
We will never know how that will sound cos recording wasnt invented during Schubert's era. Thank you Schubert for your incredible compositions. I hope you can see how many people all over the world appreciate the beautiful Music you left us with. RIP Schubert.
Kept in style of Franz Schuberts’ poetic romantic spirit yet a warm touch and the sound of Buniatishvilis’ hands in this recording of true musicianship
I don't like every performance by K Buniatishvili, but this one is a true gem. The music flows like honey. She hits that bass note at 4:40 - and lets it resonate - as perfectly as I can possibly imagine.
I am truly amazed at this woman. She has an immense talent. I imagine she must put in countless hours of practice, but how she plays and the sort of mystical channeling of the composer of each piece she plays is the stuff of magic and ethereal realms. Only music can evoke such feelings and only true musical geniuses can pull it off. Khatia is surely one of the best at it
And just think, no one (but NO ONE!) wanted to hear this music when Schubert was still alive. Although the 3rd and 4th Impromtus, D899, were published in Schubert's lifetime - albeit in 1827, the year before he died - the vast majority of his solo piano works were first heard by the general public MANY years later. The three piano pieces, "Impromtus, D946" for example, did not reach the concert hall until 1868/69... 40 years after the demise of their creator; the wonderful A-flat major Piano Sonata, D557 (composed in 1817!) was first published and performed in 1888. Schubert was considered, by the mid-to-late-1800s, to be "quaint" and "old fashioned" and "not on a par with modern composers." Another 50 years would pass before the daring and unconventional likes of Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer and Alfred Brendel (all Austrians, like Schubert) to unearth these lost and buried gems (Rachmaninov famously was "not aware" of any solo piano music by Schubert in the mid 1920s!). As was the case with Gustav Mahler at the beginning of the last century, Schubert's "time would come." And for my Spanish-speaking friends (Y para los hispanohablantes entre nosotros.): Y solo piense, nadie (¡pero NADIE!) Quería escuchar esta música cuando Schubert todavía estaba vivo. Aunque el 3. ° y 4. ° Impromtus, D899, se publicaron en la vida de Schubert, aunque en 1827, el año anterior a su muerte, la gran mayoría de sus obras para piano solo fueron escuchadas por primera vez por el público en general MUCHOS años después. Las tres piezas para piano, "Impromtus, D946", por ejemplo, no llegaron a la sala de conciertos hasta 1868/69 ... 40 años después de la desaparición de su creador; la maravillosa Sonata para piano mayor en si bemol, D557 (¡compuesta en 1817!) se publicó y actuó por primera vez en 1888. A mediados y fines de 1800, se consideraba que Schubert era "pintoresco" y "anticuado" y " no está a la altura de los compositores modernos ". Pasarían otros 50 años antes de que los gustos atrevidos y poco convencionales de Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer y Alfred Brendel (todos austriacos, como Schubert) descubrieran estas gemas perdidas y enterradas (Rachmaninov famoso "no estaba al tanto" de ninguna música de piano solo de Schubert en a mediados de la década de 1920! Como fue el caso de Gustav Mahler a principios del siglo pasado, el "momento" de Schubert llegaría. Mike D.
Because honestly, Schubert's music isn't that great. It's very repetitive, he is often unable to modulate the thematic material. I honestly think that to call him a "great" composer is not correct.
@@charles-valentinalkan5681 You are correct, Schubert wasn't a "great" composer; he was one of the VERY GREATEST! "Unable to modulate the thematic material"? GOOD LORD! Schubert never considered dead musicological terms, such as thematic modulation, instrumental monologue and intonation fabula (please!), because he was too busy writing beautiful, haunting and mostly approachable music that has lasted nearly 200 years! The best way to RUIN classical music is through constant and frivolous over-analysis. Beethoven was not GREAT because he took care to modulate his themes, he was GREAT because the basis of his themes and melodies were pure, unadulterated EAR CANDY... and THAT you cannot learn at a music college. The first of Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946, for example, is a musicological mess: the second theme is only loosely based on the first - with occasional "erroneous" melodic wanderings - and the prevailing triplet-rhythm flies in the face of the 2/4 time signature; creating the "inappropriate" illusion that the piece is actually in 6/8 time... and ALL that analytic twaddle means NOTHING when listening to (and thoroughly enjoying!) one of the finest works ever written for solo piano! Listen with living ears, and leave the musicological foibles to the diseased.
@@gardenphoto - MASTERFUL, GENIUS COMEBACK MR. DAVIS FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS, A FINE REBUTTAL TO ONE WHO DIMINISHES THE GREAT NAME OF ALKAN, I CAN GUARANTEE THE REAL ALKAN RECOGNIZED THE EXTREME WORTH OF SCHUBERT'S CONTINUITY AND PROLIFIC GENIUS !!! MR. DAVIS, HAVE YOU DISCOVERED MY ALL TIME FAVORITE AMERICAN PIANIST IVAN DAVIS - IF NOT, LOOK HIM UP, DO A SEARCH, OR GO TO ONE OF MY OTHER CHANNELS "CHPNLZT" WHERE I HAVE A FEW PERFORMANCES OF HIS, (INCLUDING SCHUBERT) AND YOU MIGHT LIKE HIS EPIC PERFORMANCE OF SCARLATTI !!!
@@AVIDEOGAL Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm just so TIRED of pseudo-experts diminishing the names of great composers... of which SCHUBERT (!!!) is one of the most profound (and so was Alkan; fantastic innovator!). YES, Mozart was a mere amateur when it came to solo piano writing; his sonatas are attractive (and even staggering when he uses minor keys!), but Schubert was on another, very much higher level altogether; as Alfred Brendel said, "Beethoven's Sonatas were rigidly structured; Schubert's sonatas just seem to happen." FANTASTIC! Acting on your glowing recommendation, I just listened to Ivan Davis' debut recording playing Liszt (from 1961); A very fine pianist indeed; tremendous touch! I especially enjoyed his interpretation of "La leggierezza," idiomatic to the hilt! His performance of Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, Op. 66, is equally satisfying. Thanks again, AVIDEOGAL; we must be brave in the face of an ARMY of musical pretenders. Mike D.
Every time I hear Khatia play I fall in love with her all over again. The notes and timing are one thing but the strength that each note gets is what makes her genius. I've got to say that Khatia is easily the best pianist that I have ever heard. Khatia is honoring every one of us with her dedication to the nuances. She is drop-dead gorgeous on top of it all.
The most glorious piece of music I have ever heard, tears streamed from my eyes, this lady plays from the soul. Truly staggering and without equal, Khatia Buniatishvili is a living legend.
Schubert ! Another composer I love most.i could feel in my heart and soul the way you touch the Piano. Flowing coming from your both hands.i wish I could meet you in person. Fantastic, amazing Pianist! Peace and quiet room hearing you playing. It forgets my loneliness and imagining the life experiences in my life. Thanks for playing Khatia! Love you!
Beautiful tasteful and emotional musical performance with nothing "overdone". As an aside, I love the way she maintains her posture and focusses on putting the emotion into the music itself , refraining from the excessive gyrating and gesticulations which many pianists resort to now.
I have just seen and listened to her other concert and she had altered my mood, so I think she must have something for making us feeling her music so deeply. I love her. She is able to put all her body, mind and soul playing these oeuvres.
Schubert's piano Impromtus are some of the most beautiful piano music written in the Romantic Era in my opinion. It's the subtly of the melodic development that makes them so stunning and this viruosi radiates confidence, beauty, poise, and almost actual total embodiment of what she's playing. Remarkable.
She's so deep when is playing! It's like the notes are coming from her heart😢😢. And this Schubert's impromptu is a real masterpiece! It can take us to the holy heaven! Thanks for sharing this lovely moment ❤
@@hugomikaelsson4055 Her gorgeous 'Ständchen' performance, through which I discovered her, is so unbelievably disruptive that I'm almost sure it was some kind of sabotage attempt, perhaps with some competitor in the audience or something. Doors banging and all, things dropping on the floor, hard to imagine as many 'accidents' coming together in a single performance.
I listen to it frequently. It still is one of the most beautiful pieces of music; to listen to the way this incredibly talented pianist plays it never fails to move me.
As beautiful and moving a performance of this piece as I have heard. Her signature fluid, and perfectly tapered, diminuendos are on full display here. I hope she turns now to all the great Schubert sonatas.
Kathia, Yuja Wang, Alice Sara Ott, Martha Argerich, Valentina Lisitsa, Helene Grimaud and many others. Thank you for your music!! What a splendid time to be alive!
@Alexander Scriabin I totally agree, but imagine if the comment was : "Alfred Brendel, Sokolov, Lang Lang, Fazil Say, Barenboim, and many others" would you had the same remark in an opposite way? I think it's not a bad intention to name only pianist if the same sex, even if it's on purpose, it's not a mark of something mean I think.
Exquisite heavenly piece by Schubert masterfully played by Khatia and definitely one of favourite renditions of it. I’ve listened to many pianists play this sublime piece yet Khatia takes it to another level. She’s really making herself one with the music and putting her soul into it, I’ve found a bit of heaven. Thank you ❤️
Yes. My favorite piece by my favourite most romantic composer, delivered more masterfully than I have ever heard it played. I try myself to reproduce it's true beauty, melancholy and passion, yet listening to such a breathtaking rendition by this beautiful pianist, simply tells me of the thousands of hours of practice I have ahead of me.
Where has she been all my life?! I JUST discovered her music this weekend and I'm 6 hours into listening. I'm hooked for life! Khatia is simply amazing, and mesmerizing. Brava!!!
Thats the Spirit ~Really? I generally don’t respond to comments like this, but this was totally uncalled for. Obviously, I know Khatia did not write this music and it is her interpretation of it. Don’t be a hater all your life. Geesh.
Such beautiful music. Of all the great composers, Franz Schubert died the youngest, at the age of 31. All the spectacular prodigies were writing symphonies from the age of 5, but it was only through experience that they wrote their truly immortal works. Apart from Schubert, only Frederyk Chopin was composing such masterpieces as such a young man, almost a boy by our standards today. Mozart wrote his greatest pieces in his 30s, Beethoven in his 40s, Wagner in his 50s.
Effortless, lyrical, singing tone with emotionally exposed beautifully wrought phrasing...I don't know anyone alive who is doing it better than Khatia. Wow🥰
Sometimes, some benevolent God falls in love with a human being and gives him special gifts. This happened to Khatia Buniatishvili, who is not only a brilliant pianist and a beautiful woman, but also got the divine touch, that ability that only a few have, to make everything they do special.
I have listened to this hundreds of times. I can’t hear or detect any mistake and the performance is truly perfect. I will likely listen hundreds of more times.
Так сыграть прочувствовать душой это великое произведение . На столько возвыситься над суетой под силу только избранным великим профессионалам. Браво!!!!!!!!
Franz Schubert has always been hidden, in the shadow of Beethoven, it is only said that his music is very beautiful, but it turns out that he did not find any orchestra that played it and practically only in the "schubertiadas" could exhibit his music. He wrote more than six hundred lieder, of which much, after his death, were unpublished, but the truth is that Schubert was one of the main musicians of the nineteenth century. khatia !! , thank you for interpreting in a virtuous way the work of this great genius of music.
this is simply perfect. deep. warm. expressive, but not overdosed. and for your usual kind of interpretation with sometimes very unique kind of play this is relatively close to the original text. i usually love your special interpreations (as for example for mussorgsky), but i love it also when the interpretation goes along with the original text. and as it is proved here the original text gives often enought space for own kind of playing. and btw. the video is also perfect. wonderfully taped. sound is also perfect.
Gould once said that Schubert boring was. He has never heard (and seen) Khatia. It is true that after having listened to Richter playing Schubert , he changed his mind.
Con esta pieza de Schubert, por primera vez, me he sentido contenido y amorosamente acariciado en mi espíritu. Tu talento y dulce ejecución son asombrosos. Muchas gracias Khatia, por compartir tu sensibilidad, tu arte y talento. Un gran abrazo.
QUESTA È LA KATIA CHE PREFERISCO !!!Lei Si ESPRIME attraverso il cuore, niente acrobazie o tecnicismo visto che questo improvviso di Schubert è una preghiera , e la grande Katia riesce a renderla sommessa seppure forte nell'intensita' del suo Misticismo. È una grande, grandissima interprete che mi auguro continui ad essere sempre ricca di immaginazione e di profonda interpretazione....dote che ormai......sta scomparendo ....... per lasciare spazio a musica fatta di tanta ,troppa " cerebralita'". Grazie Katia per tutte le emozioni che mi hai regalato🌠
At the face of it it might appear like histrionics - in reality she is immersed in her music and is one with the piano. Now in my middle adulthood I feel Katia is a gift to humankind. During my youth I have listened to several pianists of their times. Katia is among the better performers of ALL TIMES. @Katia I take u as a role mode and my guru for my learning and practice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🌺🙏🏻🌺🙏🏻🌺.
With this piece by Schubert, for the first time, I have felt content and lovingly caressed in my spirit. Your talent and sweet execution are amazing. Thank you very much Khatia, for sharing your sensitivity, your art and talent. A big hug.
Eu, ouço clássicos desde criança.Essa obra de Schubert, sempre soou como uma prece que fortalece nossos sentidos, Kátia Buniatshvilli, toca com muito sentimento. Fazendo sua interpretação a melhor que já ouvi.
In an age of space travel, and wireless communication, this type of accomplishment is truly amazing. I am glad that I stopped by to listen to this performance.
There is such total power and control in her playing. It feels like not a single sound, vibration or overtone is accidental. As if she is sculpting the sound meticulously as it hovers above the piano.
I am always in awe of her mastery.
Yes. Its a cliché, but she becomes the music.
We used this piece at my beloved mother's funeral just 3 days ago to accompany a slide show of photos of her life from a baby with her parents to a child with her 3 siblings, to a school girl, to getting married, to her having her 5 children to having her grand and great-grandchildren into her old age, dying aged 97 after many moves to many places including Algeria during its terrible war of independence in the 1950s - a whole lifetime in just over 6 minutes of music. The music of Schubert was a perfect accompaniment to these photos, in fact I cannot get over just how perfect this music was - what a lovely tune it opens with and how many lovely tunes Schubert composed!. Schubert was a genius and yes, Khatia plays this with feeling, tenderness and great artistry. This music will forever remind me of my Mum who also loved Schubert's impromptus. RIP Margaret Stedeford
I'm learning this piece right now and your story is very touching. I'm sorry for your loss, but thanks for sharing, it really inspires me to understand better the power of this piece and put my heart in it.
Thank you so much.
😭 Beautiful words.
Miss my mom too 🖤
She loved Madame Butterfly
So sorry for your loss
Your story touches my heart. I hope your mother lives forever in your loving memories. Also I am certain your mother now is in her Creator's place, in absolute peace and tendernrss.
Thankyou. I know she is there for "in my Father's house are many mansions" John 14 2
❤
We're so fortunate to be able to listen to such beautiful music. Most people in the world will never have the opportunity.
immer mal wieder höre ich andere Interpretationen zum Vergleich-
und doch komme ich immer wieder hier her zurück.
für mich bleibt sie die innigste, einfühlsamste.
unübertroffen.
Schubert was for a long time one of the most underrated composers, I'm very happy that more and more of people are discovering his talent and genius, but that make me think how many other great composers lay there forgotten by the time for different reasons, with beautiful pieces we maybe will never hear and appreciate.
Perfection. Depth. Beauty. Intensity. Subtlety. Pain. Pleasure. All of those are in this and Khatia delivered this exceptionally.
Totally agree
It's an honor to watch this piece played with such love, care, and precision.
She plays sublimely. And she always takes you by surprise. What a wonderful gift she has. Of her generation, she stands out for me... always willing to take risks and, god forgive, never giving a routine performance of anything. This is mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing it.
I love how Khatia gives every single note the meaning it deserves. The result is outstanding.
She gives everything to her music and hers fans.
NOBODY PLAYS LIKE HER1. SHE IS THE BEST ARY MOREIRA LISBOA ITANHEM BA BRASIL
Pas d'autres mots
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SUblime
She breathes Schubert. I feel in another world. Thank you Khatia.
I had the exact same reaction - she is breathing the music!
I would like to thank all of those Mothers who instilled a love of music in their children. We can all see and hear what wonder and joy these musicians bring to the world. Khatia brings me such joy that I can't wait to get up in the morning and listen to her once again. So ... to the Mothers who made their children practice all of those hour, to the makers of such wonderful pianos, to TH-cam and to Khatia Buniatishvilli , Thank You
I just know that feeling, when you are playing, and you are just caught up in it and lost in the magic of the music, and the world suddenly seems small and comforting for a moment, and it is heavenly, that feeling. I yearn for it more and more as I learn to feel with my fingertips, and see with my ears, and hear with my heart. Thank you Khatia, for love.
"I yearn for it more and more as I learn to feel with my fingertips, and see with my ears, and hear with my heart."
That was beautifully put. Continue your quest for the sublime, my friend.
I feel like crying when listening to her performances. And she is so stunningly gorgeous.
That was beyond perfection Khatia! No one could possibly perform that piece any better than this! Your touch is brilliant, full of fire but gentle as a summer breeze in the soft areas. Schubert would be very, very pleased to hear his composition played on this grand level. Thank you so much Khatia for this unforgettable recital. I just loved it!!!
*coughs in Horowitz*
Just Listen Horowitz!
Nobody cannot play Like him. Never!
Alfred BRENDEL
@@lilikaamore2123 the bad thing about that video is poor audio quality and audience. But yes i think horowitz did better
I've always thought Schubert is a hugely underrated composer, this piece tipifies this, it has everything, pathos, drama, feeling, virtuosiry and its not especially well known, but its wonderful and this rendition is just beautiful!
Schubert is my favorite composer. All of his pieces are absolutely beautiful
"typifies" - the same 'type'
schubert isnt underrated he's generally considered one of the greatest composers ever
Why on earth would you think Schubert as underated. ???
Dans « Pensée des morts » Liszt lui rend un profond hommage.
The music she plays is never trivialized. Not only does she know it well but treats it as if it is sacred. She may be the most accomplished pianist performing at this time.
Kathia sensitivy can only be described as Tenderness! Wonderful. Total commitement to the music she plays....
Rev. Stephen A. Cakouros ... I totally agree, music lives and breathes through Khatia’s fingers.
Rev. Stephen A. Cakouros 8
Possibly yes. With Juga Wang not far behind. Khatia is Wonderful!
@@walkingphotos I agree! I'm seeing her for the first time. Wonderful playing. Such soul.
I have fallen in love with Khatia just listening to her express her inner soul through her music and she'll never know who i am. That is how she touched me with her music. She's an angel.
You said it very well Ralph and I agree with you.
@som Slovaak Judge not, and learn to be kind please.
@som Slovaak what if he likes his mom's basement?
Seeing all the different languages in the comments...
music really does bring people together
Wonderful isn't it? She's just brilliant!!
Music is an international language.
Personnalité incroyable
lol
@KrownSkull WHO ASKED
People would ask what are the differences between Khatia's piano playing
and other female or male pianists. Well, If you just listened to a CD,
it's okay. But if you viewed on TH-cam, watched her and any other
pianists playing the same concerto, you'd immediately notice the
differences between them; not just a little bit but a lot. Khatia let
you understand and experience more of the lyrics of this concerto,
allowed you to know more about those composers when they composed those
works, not just by her intoxicated body language and expression. She was
actually completely immersed in every note and the music that made her
complete. She was completely melted in it, talking with the composer and
his concerto. You'd become more understanding and more passionate to
his emotions when he composed this concerto. Khatia made it become more
alive, more vividly colorful. And don't overlook the fact that when she
played that night, she obviously caught cold with some light runny nose,
so you saw that she asked the conductor to give her a handkerchief to
wipe her nose. But didn't you notice, once she start to play, once her
fingers touched the keys, all the cold symptoms were immediately
disappeared, the music and what she played, actually comforted her. The
other thing that amazed me by Khatia is (was) that almost every concerto
or piano piece she played, she almost never paid too much attention to
the keyboard, almost never looked at those keys. When the camera
opposite the piano took her images, sometimes you couldn't even tell if
she's playing, but in fact she was. That's what the difference between
her and most of the other female or male pianists and how naturally
superior to others. Her virtuosity gave us more opportunity to know
better about every piece of music. It'd become a poem, a poetry, a love
story, a romance.... that's not possible by just listening to or from a
CD. She'd not just playing it, she's talking to you and to herself at
the same time, she's telling you a wonderful story. Because she herself
IS THE MUSIC and all the composers were fulfilled by her!
Ίσως επειδή σ' αυτή της την παρουσία δεν φοράει ξέκολο φουστάνι !! Δεν παύει όμως να είναι υπέροχη όπως πάντα.΄ Ακόμα λένε πως υπέροχος είναι και ο χαρακτήρας της όπως λένε αυτοί που είχαν την τύχη να την συναναστραφούν. Μπράβο της !!
Deep tenderness and power, submitted to the piano with high virtuosity. It is not for nothing that Khatia Buinatishvili is considered one of the best pianists in the world, today.
Welch unbegrenzte Gnade und Liebe muss Gott dabei überkommen sein; als er dieses Herz zum Schlagen brachte .... Khatia - . Die Musikwelt dankt deinem Schöpfer.
What huge depths of feeling she conjures up, yet how modestly and openly she shares those feelings with us. Thank you Khatia.
Beautifully put.
A good description of Schubert himself
Just one example of why Liszt regarded Schubert as the most lyrical of all composers.
Who would be second? Chopin?
And the origin of lyricism in classical music
You sure it wasn't because he was beefing with Chopin who was definitely the greatest lyricist.
@@derekwestcott7851 Chopin was not a Lyricist.
Chopin (favorite) wrote beautiful melodic lines. But his innovation was in how he "dressed" that melody with rich harmonic textures and progressions. Schubert's the best lyricist closely followed by Mozart.
This performance is so very beautiful on so many different levels (the score, the heart felt execution, the instrument, the setting, and the musician). The world needs more of this! Much respect…Thank you!
Великолепное исполнение прекрасной музыки.Очень чувственное, тем более в исполнении столь симпатичной женщины, браво !
Méditation admirable de profondeur , de sérénité et de délicatesse ; bravo Madame Buniatishvili ....
Je l'admire tellement que je vais l'ecouter en concert en avril prochain a la Philarmonie de Paris
Bernard Colmar
Artists are called "Mademoiselle" in France, until they die. Even married.
It's the way she connects with the piece - the expression on her face, the calmness one gets from her interpretation, that part of what she plays that words can never do justice to describe - that makes one agree, without a doubt, that even Schubert would be smiling in heaven to hear his work being played here so phenomenally on a Steinway. Many thanks, Khatia.
But even if I turn the screen away to read comments her interpretation is still wonderful.
True, she's sweet and melancholic, this piece needs that, sweetness and melancholy.
I love that she hardy moves. ALL her effort is in portraying the emotions through her hands!
There's no pomp, no circumstance. Just a deep connection with the music.
I can understand the way she feels and what she wants to say through her music. She makes the piano sing so heavenly...
Schubert is one of the few composers who can move me and stir up emotions that are so deep within me. It is so sad he died at aged 31. What a tragedy for Classical music to have him die so young. He could have composed so many more pieces for us to enjoy had he lived until at least age 50.
Very true!! And Khatia brings out the very essence of his soul!!!!!!! We are blessed!!!!!
@@spiramus the only one who can play this with perfection is still Schubert himself.
We will never know how that will sound cos recording wasnt invented during Schubert's era. Thank you Schubert for your incredible compositions. I hope you can see how many people all over the world appreciate the beautiful Music you left us with. RIP Schubert.
Thank God he lived and wrote this magic down on paper so that it could be revivified millions of times over.
He was pretty F ing good and so prolific to die at just 31 yrs only!
Kept in style of Franz Schuberts’ poetic romantic spirit yet a warm touch and the sound of Buniatishvilis’ hands in this recording of true musicianship
I don't like every performance by K Buniatishvili, but this one is a true gem. The music flows like honey. She hits that bass note at 4:40 - and lets it resonate - as perfectly as I can possibly imagine.
I am truly amazed at this woman. She has an immense talent. I imagine she must put in countless hours of practice, but how she plays and the sort of mystical channeling of the composer of each piece she plays is the stuff of magic and ethereal realms. Only music can evoke such feelings and only true musical geniuses can pull it off. Khatia is surely one of the best at it
And just think, no one (but NO ONE!) wanted to hear this music when Schubert was still alive. Although the 3rd and 4th Impromtus, D899, were published in Schubert's lifetime - albeit in 1827, the year before he died - the vast majority of his solo piano works were first heard by the general public MANY years later. The three piano pieces, "Impromtus, D946" for example, did not reach the concert hall until 1868/69... 40 years after the demise of their creator; the wonderful A-flat major Piano Sonata, D557 (composed in 1817!) was first published and performed in 1888. Schubert was considered, by the mid-to-late-1800s, to be "quaint" and "old fashioned" and "not on a par with modern composers." Another 50 years would pass before the daring and unconventional likes of Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer and Alfred Brendel (all Austrians, like Schubert) to unearth these lost and buried gems (Rachmaninov famously was "not aware" of any solo piano music by Schubert in the mid 1920s!). As was the case with Gustav Mahler at the beginning of the last century, Schubert's "time would come."
And for my Spanish-speaking friends (Y para los hispanohablantes entre nosotros.):
Y solo piense, nadie (¡pero NADIE!) Quería escuchar esta música cuando Schubert todavía estaba vivo. Aunque el 3. ° y 4. ° Impromtus, D899, se publicaron en la vida de Schubert, aunque en 1827, el año anterior a su muerte, la gran mayoría de sus obras para piano solo fueron escuchadas por primera vez por el público en general MUCHOS años después. Las tres piezas para piano, "Impromtus, D946", por ejemplo, no llegaron a la sala de conciertos hasta 1868/69 ... 40 años después de la desaparición de su creador; la maravillosa Sonata para piano mayor en si bemol, D557 (¡compuesta en 1817!) se publicó y actuó por primera vez en 1888. A mediados y fines de 1800, se consideraba que Schubert era "pintoresco" y "anticuado" y " no está a la altura de los compositores modernos ". Pasarían otros 50 años antes de que los gustos atrevidos y poco convencionales de Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer y Alfred Brendel (todos austriacos, como Schubert) descubrieran estas gemas perdidas y enterradas (Rachmaninov famoso "no estaba al tanto" de ninguna música de piano solo de Schubert en a mediados de la década de 1920! Como fue el caso de Gustav Mahler a principios del siglo pasado, el "momento" de Schubert llegaría.
Mike D.
PERSONALLY, I LIKE SCHUBERT BETTER THAN MOZART, AT LEAST FOR PIANO SOLO LIKE THIS !!!
Because honestly, Schubert's music isn't that great. It's very repetitive, he is often unable to modulate the thematic material. I honestly think that to call him a "great" composer is not correct.
@@charles-valentinalkan5681 You are correct, Schubert wasn't a "great" composer; he was one of the VERY GREATEST! "Unable to modulate the thematic material"? GOOD LORD! Schubert never considered dead musicological terms, such as thematic modulation, instrumental monologue and intonation fabula (please!), because he was too busy writing beautiful, haunting and mostly approachable music that has lasted nearly 200 years! The best way to RUIN classical music is through constant and frivolous over-analysis. Beethoven was not GREAT because he took care to modulate his themes, he was GREAT because the basis of his themes and melodies were pure, unadulterated EAR CANDY... and THAT you cannot learn at a music college. The first of Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946, for example, is a musicological mess: the second theme is only loosely based on the first - with occasional "erroneous" melodic wanderings - and the prevailing triplet-rhythm flies in the face of the 2/4 time signature; creating the "inappropriate" illusion that the piece is actually in 6/8 time... and ALL that analytic twaddle means NOTHING when listening to (and thoroughly enjoying!) one of the finest works ever written for solo piano! Listen with living ears, and leave the musicological foibles to the diseased.
@@gardenphoto - MASTERFUL, GENIUS COMEBACK MR. DAVIS FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS, A FINE REBUTTAL TO ONE WHO DIMINISHES THE GREAT NAME OF ALKAN, I CAN GUARANTEE THE REAL ALKAN RECOGNIZED THE EXTREME WORTH OF SCHUBERT'S CONTINUITY AND PROLIFIC GENIUS !!!
MR. DAVIS, HAVE YOU DISCOVERED MY ALL TIME FAVORITE AMERICAN PIANIST IVAN DAVIS - IF NOT, LOOK HIM UP, DO A SEARCH, OR GO TO ONE OF MY OTHER CHANNELS "CHPNLZT" WHERE I HAVE A FEW PERFORMANCES OF HIS, (INCLUDING SCHUBERT) AND YOU MIGHT LIKE HIS EPIC PERFORMANCE OF SCARLATTI !!!
@@AVIDEOGAL Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm just so TIRED of pseudo-experts diminishing the names of great composers... of which SCHUBERT (!!!) is one of the most profound (and so was Alkan; fantastic innovator!).
YES, Mozart was a mere amateur when it came to solo piano writing; his sonatas are attractive (and even staggering when he uses minor keys!), but Schubert was on another, very much higher level altogether; as Alfred Brendel said, "Beethoven's Sonatas were rigidly structured; Schubert's sonatas just seem to happen." FANTASTIC!
Acting on your glowing recommendation, I just listened to Ivan Davis' debut recording playing Liszt (from 1961); A very fine pianist indeed; tremendous touch! I especially enjoyed his interpretation of "La leggierezza," idiomatic to the hilt! His performance of Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, Op. 66, is equally satisfying. Thanks again, AVIDEOGAL; we must be brave in the face of an ARMY of musical pretenders.
Mike D.
Every time I hear Khatia play I fall in love with her all over again. The notes and timing are one thing but the strength that each note gets is what makes her genius. I've got to say that Khatia is easily the best pianist that I have ever heard. Khatia is honoring every one of us with her dedication to the nuances. She is drop-dead gorgeous on top of it all.
Эта Женщина и есть воплощение музыки. Я просто очарован! Браво Катя, простите, если не точно транскрипирую!
The most glorious piece of music I have ever heard, tears streamed from my eyes, this lady plays from the soul. Truly staggering and without equal, Khatia Buniatishvili is a living legend.
I am grateful I was introduced to this otherworldly pianist by the TH-cam algorithm.
Thank you for your stunning performances!
Красивая девушка, потрясающая игра, редкое сочетание красоты и таланта, получил эстетическое наслаждение. Спасибо 🙏
Absolutely lovely, soulful Schubert, played with so much feeling by Khatia.
Thank you, Schubert and Khatia.
She plays with her whole emotion in the piece naturally without any acting as if.... Great player!!
Khatia braucht keinen Applaus.
Sie hat unseren großen Dank.
Wonderful piece of music, it sounds like a deep prayer. Schubert was a very devout and sensitive man.
Non ne parlons pas de priere par pitié mais plutôt d'un cri d'amour pour rendre hommage
Schubert ! Another composer I love most.i could feel in my heart and soul the way you touch the Piano. Flowing coming from your both hands.i wish I could meet you in person. Fantastic, amazing Pianist! Peace and quiet room hearing you playing. It forgets my loneliness and imagining the life experiences in my life. Thanks for playing Khatia! Love you!
If she read your post, she probably went straight out and bought a handgun.
Superbe interprétation ! Elle joue à merveille !
Beautiful tasteful and emotional musical performance with nothing "overdone". As an aside, I love the way she maintains her posture and focusses on putting the emotion into the music itself , refraining from the excessive gyrating and gesticulations which many pianists resort to now.
I have just seen and listened to her other concert and she had altered my mood, so I think she must have something for making us feeling her music so deeply. I love her. She is able to put all her body, mind and soul playing these oeuvres.
@Dimitri Fugue what you're really saying: "penis comedy NOW"
Schubert's piano Impromtus are some of the most beautiful piano music written in the Romantic Era in my opinion. It's the subtly of the melodic development that makes them so stunning and this viruosi radiates confidence, beauty, poise, and almost actual total embodiment of what she's playing. Remarkable.
Schubert is looking down at you and crying over the beauty of your sensitivity......you are indeed one of the ''Chosen''
She's so deep when is playing! It's like the notes are coming from her heart😢😢. And this Schubert's impromptu is a real masterpiece! It can take us to the holy heaven! Thanks for sharing this lovely moment ❤
No audience = No coughing. Yay! Excellent performance. Perfect piece for her. I love the intensity when she plays.
Yes me too..When i saw there is no audience, i clapped my hands
Agreed, her rendition of "Ständchen" that's available on youtube is all but ruined by the audience. I felt sorry for her. She played her heart out.
@@hugomikaelsson4055 Her gorgeous 'Ständchen' performance, through which I discovered her, is so unbelievably disruptive that I'm almost sure it was some kind of sabotage attempt, perhaps with some competitor in the audience or something. Doors banging and all, things dropping on the floor, hard to imagine as many 'accidents' coming together in a single performance.
Me too! She interprets so very well.
Omg yes! I didn’t even think of that. No distracting echo either, come to think of it.
Очень нравится исполнительская манера Кати. Дай Бог длинного творческого и жизненного пути, девочка!!!
Хватит музыка льётся из твоих пальчиком и твоей души. Замечательное исполнение. Твоя манера исполнения. Талантом бог тебя наградил.
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I listen to it frequently. It still is one of the most beautiful pieces of music; to listen to the way this incredibly talented pianist plays it never fails to move me.
This piece is one of the jewels of world music, It is fluent gold
Such beauty and no one siting in the audience to appreciate it. Thanks TH-cam for putting it in my recommended viewing list.
As beautiful and moving a performance of this piece as I have heard. Her signature fluid, and perfectly tapered, diminuendos are on full display here. I hope she turns now to all the great Schubert sonatas.
Kathia, Yuja Wang, Alice Sara Ott, Martha Argerich, Valentina Lisitsa, Helene Grimaud and many others. Thank you for your music!!
What a splendid time to be alive!
Sí! Así ES!!
KegPatcha Ya, Sure, Yabetcha!
why do you only thank female pianists
@@bjornegan6421 why not 🙃
@Alexander Scriabin I totally agree, but imagine if the comment was : "Alfred Brendel, Sokolov, Lang Lang, Fazil Say, Barenboim, and many others" would you had the same remark in an opposite way? I think it's not a bad intention to name only pianist if the same sex, even if it's on purpose, it's not a mark of something mean I think.
Just looking at all the comments and views it just shows how music really does bring us all together
No audience!!! Sooo fantastic!!!! No one is disturbing this perfect Sound!!!!!!!!! Its like Angels Wings!!
Exquisite heavenly piece by Schubert masterfully played by Khatia and definitely one of favourite renditions of it. I’ve listened to many pianists play this sublime piece yet Khatia takes it to another level. She’s really making herself one with the music and putting her soul into it, I’ve found a bit of heaven. Thank you ❤️
Vesti N1
I totally agree, quite a mesmerising performance, so beautiful. Thank you Khatia
Yes. My favorite piece by my favourite most romantic composer, delivered more masterfully than I have ever heard it played. I try myself to reproduce it's true beauty, melancholy and passion, yet listening to such a breathtaking rendition by this beautiful pianist, simply tells me of the thousands of hours of practice I have ahead of me.
With what beauty and passion does Khatia interpret, simply extraordinary
@@georgescancan7503 Not next XY... The first Khatia. :)
Where has she been all my life?! I JUST discovered her music this weekend and I'm 6 hours into listening. I'm hooked for life! Khatia is simply amazing, and mesmerizing. Brava!!!
Camellia Hill her Interpretation. It‘s Schubert‘s music.
Thats the Spirit ~Really? I generally don’t respond to comments like this, but this was totally uncalled for. Obviously, I know Khatia did not write this music and it is her interpretation of it. Don’t be a hater all your life. Geesh.
Those dynamics are sublime, and the rubato is beautiful and dramatic without being gauche.
Katja plays like a dream. She takes me off any stress with this piece.
She is my new favourite pianist! I just love her so much!
Sua, e da torcida do Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil .
Un ABSOLU musical, comme toujours avec vous, Khatia Buniatishvili...
Merci beaucoup, merci encore une fois.
I judge only what I hear about.
And it's the only important thing.
The incredible precision of the human body and mind, soft and beautiful yet energetic and dynamic , amazing ❤️
My personal favorite performance of this master piece, ever! Her state of connection with the music is on the highest level.
Very good indeed, very near of the Horovitz' one, for me the best in youtube. Cheers
it's 2020 & everything is on fire, but this is so beautiful it made me cry
Stop defiling this music with references to world affairs! Beautiful music, beautuful woman- that's it!
I had the same feeling hearing Khatia Buniatshvili's interpretation of Chopin Prelude N°4 op 28
I cry allways
That CD has kept me sane
@@peterikarlstad I ukulele u u u okok
I have discovered this amazing pianist now! In these crazy days of Covid and world's caos! Thanks for this music!
Thanks for playing one of the most beautiful piano pieces ever so sensitively. 👍
That's my girl! she plays me to sleep every night with her dreamy rendition of this lovely work.
Such beautiful music. Of all the great composers, Franz Schubert died the youngest, at the age of 31. All the spectacular prodigies were writing symphonies from the age of 5, but it was only through experience that they wrote their truly immortal works. Apart from Schubert, only Frederyk Chopin was composing such masterpieces as such a young man, almost a boy by our standards today. Mozart wrote his greatest pieces in his 30s, Beethoven in his 40s, Wagner in his 50s.
She makes every note a work of art - and she pays with a depth of feeling that is truly wonderful. Thank you Khatia for such magical music.
Like the wind across a moor...and ocean-deep longing in the music. This feels rather special.
Effortless, lyrical, singing tone with emotionally exposed beautifully wrought phrasing...I don't know anyone alive who is doing it better than Khatia. Wow🥰
Khatia it's a beautiful , beautiful music . You are playing as magician, bravo., love it. You made my day.Thank you, with love from New Jersey, USA.
Sometimes, some benevolent God falls in love with a human being and gives him special gifts. This happened to Khatia Buniatishvili, who is not only a brilliant pianist and a beautiful woman, but also got the divine touch, that ability that only a few have, to make everything they do special.
one of the best interpretations i've ever seen!!! so fantastic and beautiful... and katia buniatshivili is one of the important pianists of the globe.
I have listened to this hundreds of times. I can’t hear or detect any mistake and the performance is truly perfect. I will likely listen hundreds of more times.
SO DO I . IS VERY NICE ARY MOREIRA LOISBOA ITANHAM BA BRASIL
Awesome!
The passion in her positioning at the piano is so profound and the music that results is sublime. She must be in another world when she plays,
Il pleut ,si le ciel pleure ,à vous écouter tout n’est plus que douceur. Merci Madame.
Emily, I think she is of another world.
Лучшее исполнение из тех, что я слышал. Всё сбалансировано великолепно, все три голоса. Прекрасно!
Я люблю слушать в исплнении Владимира Горовица.
@@zurabeshkenadze4841 Да, тоже великолепно!
Всё, что исполняет Хатия, могу слушать бесконечно...Её игра пронизывает меня до глубины...
Так сыграть прочувствовать душой это великое произведение . На столько возвыситься над суетой под силу только избранным великим профессионалам. Браво!!!!!!!!
She is beautiful inside and out. To feel and interpret music the way she does is very special. Love you Kathia!
Franz Schubert has always been hidden, in the shadow of Beethoven, it is only said that his music is very beautiful, but it turns out that he did not find any orchestra that played it and practically only in the "schubertiadas" could exhibit his music. He wrote more than six hundred lieder, of which much, after his death, were unpublished, but the truth is that Schubert was one of the main musicians of the nineteenth century. khatia !! , thank you for interpreting in a virtuous way the work of this great genius of music.
0:12 You can hear the echo of "Ellen's third song" (Schubert's Ave Maria) written two years earlier.
Excellent ear, sir 👍
Yes yes, I noticed that too.
^..^~~
I do wish I have your intellect.
Manfred Mann - Question
When the music arrives into the soul, only can express the true piano sound.
Thank you very much.
Bravísimo.
She has such an intuitive way of being one with her instrument. Absolutely beautiful.
this is simply perfect. deep. warm. expressive, but not overdosed. and for your usual kind of interpretation with sometimes very unique kind of play this is relatively close to the original text. i usually love your special interpreations (as for example for mussorgsky), but i love it also when the interpretation goes along with the original text. and as it is proved here the original text gives often enought space for own kind of playing. and btw. the video is also perfect. wonderfully taped. sound is also perfect.
Кажется, что музыка звучит внутри нее, а она к ней прислушивается. Восхитительна!
Gould once said that Schubert boring was. He has never heard (and seen) Khatia. It is true that after having listened to Richter playing Schubert , he changed his mind.
Хорошо подмечено
Мне тоже она очень нравится, её музыкальность и искренность !
, а как Вам - Alice Sara Ott ?
Con esta pieza de Schubert, por primera vez, me he sentido contenido y amorosamente acariciado en mi espíritu. Tu talento y dulce ejecución son asombrosos. Muchas gracias Khatia, por compartir tu sensibilidad, tu arte y talento. Un gran abrazo.
QUESTA È LA KATIA CHE PREFERISCO !!!Lei Si ESPRIME attraverso il cuore, niente acrobazie o tecnicismo visto che questo improvviso di Schubert è una preghiera , e la grande Katia riesce a renderla sommessa seppure forte nell'intensita' del suo Misticismo. È una grande, grandissima interprete che mi auguro continui ad essere sempre ricca di immaginazione e di profonda interpretazione....dote che ormai......sta scomparendo ....... per lasciare spazio a musica fatta di tanta ,troppa " cerebralita'". Grazie Katia per tutte le emozioni che mi hai regalato🌠
At the face of it it might appear like histrionics - in reality she is immersed in her music and is one with the piano. Now in my middle adulthood I feel Katia is a gift to humankind. During my youth I have listened to several pianists of their times. Katia is among the better performers of ALL TIMES. @Katia I take u as a role mode and my guru for my learning and practice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🌺🙏🏻🌺🙏🏻🌺.
One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing.
Oh wow. That was sublime. She has such finesse and grace in every note she plays
With this piece by Schubert, for the first time, I have felt content and lovingly caressed in my spirit. Your talent and sweet execution are amazing. Thank you very much Khatia, for sharing your sensitivity, your art and talent. A big hug.
I massivley adore this person, a gift to humanity through her musicality💞✨
Eu, ouço clássicos desde criança.Essa obra de Schubert, sempre soou como uma prece que fortalece nossos sentidos, Kátia Buniatshvilli, toca com muito sentimento. Fazendo sua interpretação a melhor que já ouvi.
In an age of space travel, and wireless communication, this type of accomplishment is truly amazing. I am glad that I stopped by to listen to this performance.