Catalogue # 88697766042
Recent Sony Classical signing Khatia Buniatishvili is a phenomenal and acclaimed young artist, and regarded as one of the great pianists of the future. Her debut album for Sony Classical is devoted to Franz Liszt, with a focus on the Faust theme: Liszt’s third Liebestraum is characterised by the line from Goethe’s Faust: ”O stay! Thou art so fair!” and the Mephisto Waltz was inspired by an episode in Nikolaus Lenau’s Faust poem. Moreover Khatia Buniatishvili reads Faust, Marguerite and Mephisto into the themes of the centrepiece of the recording, the Sonata in B Minor – technically one of the most demanding works ever written for piano.
Liszt:
Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 in A flat major
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
La Lugubre Gondola II, S200 No. 2
Prelude and Fugue in a minor, BWV 543 (J.S. Bach), S. 462/1
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
