Stars when they were young (7): Khatia confronts her teacher
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I had no idea she studied with Eric Cantona’s uncle.
My interview with Khatia (in Dutch)
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2016/06/12/khatia-buniatishvili/
What a grueling irdeal if a kesson, and an ungrateful piece, Prokofiev’s “Suggestion diabolique”, isn’t it? Will she ever get those hammered forte double trills right to suit her teacher?
this piece was on Alexis “Sigi” Weissenberg’s debut LP, a 10″ Columbia, with his first version of Scriabin’s exquisite Nocturne for the left hand, Op. 9, No. 2, which he played better than anyone dead or alive; a Scriabine prelude in B-flat minor, and more PRKFV … the third sonata?
It’s worth noting that this guy is one of the happy beneficiaries of Ravel’s copyrights hijacking saga…
https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le-zoom-de-la-redaction/le-zoom-de-la-redaction-10-novembre-2017