Khatia’s baby was heard crying during encores
NewsFrom a Standard review of Khatia Buniatishvili’s return to Vienna:
A new, leading voice has entered Khatia Buniatishvili’s life: the Georgian pianist gave birth to her first child in June and is clearly trying to sort out her priorities…
A touching image immediately after the break: applauded by an already waiting audience, the young mother rushing up apologizes with a gesture from her new life (rocking movement)….
After an artistic Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Serge Gainsbourg’s La Javanaise as an encorein a piano version by Buniatishvili with unexpected “singing”: Anyone sitting in the front rows clearly heard a longing baby cry from backstage.
Obviously he has a fine taste in music. Or she.
She. Daughter’s name is Charlotte.
Khatia, better focus on your baby instead of chasing new contracts. Work can wait.
Can we stop the constant judging of young mothers ? Everyone seems to know better than them what they should do. These kinds of comments are exhausting. Would you write this about a man who just had a baby ?
Fathers simply do not have ( and cannot !) breastfeed their babies …
There’s this amazing new invention called the bottle. They even hold breast milk too.
The bottle is a workaround (and could possibly have helped in this situation) but it’s never a full replacement of breastfeeding. Also mothers have to pump then, which adds to their time consuming obligations.
That she wants to return to the concert circus less than three months after birth is her right and free choice, but you can’t have it all.
Men can’t have babies
I’m sure she is more than capable of doing both. Lots of us have a career and bring up perfectly happy children. They’re not mutually exclusive nor should they be.
Just play with the lid down and throw the bassinet on top Khatia. Or do the left hand concerto while using the right hand to hold the baby for a mid concert feeding. After all, the baby comes first.
So true! And for the person who gave a thumbs down, what’s wrong with you? That was a very funny comment Couperin made.
Cute!
Congrats to Khatia for juggling career and motherhood.
Check out “Song of love” with Katharine Hepburn (actually Rubinstein’s playing) performing the end of Carnaval with her baby crying in the wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kV9jmooks&ab_channel=Setsuled
A while back while listening to Damrau in the Met there was a clear little voice heard saying “Mama”. no confirmation but I am convinced it was her child.
Of course here on slippedisc people still talk about how women should prioritize motherhood and claim that men can’t breastfeed…Classical music audiences need a generational upgrade.
I would rather have a small cry from a baby than a cell phone ringing or people talking.
Psychopath mother? Child abuse? Who cares? Those are a cherished tradition in the classical realm.
One should hope Kathia doesn’ arrange a marriage with a “famous” conductor or composer to build her “legacy”.
This, btw, is the artform that “intelligent” people should follow….or so its being commanded from the ivory tower.
Thanks but no thanks….
That’s a bit absurd – or absurdly extreme! Multitudes of women leave their babies all day, every day because they must work to support them. I seriously doubt that is the case with Khatia’s baby!
Men can have it all, why can’t she? Stop with all this nonsense. She is a mother and also the best piano player in the world. She’s brilliant and can obviously do several things at once. Bravo!…