Khatia: My control is that I lose control
OrchestrasThe flamboyant Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is taking up directing concertos from the keyboard. She plays London’s Barbican in December.
‘My control is that I lose control,’ she tells an AP videographer. ‘I just give everything I have. I am proud that I achieved independently … from conductors, from male powers, or even female.’
Watch here.
The title of this post chimes-in appropriately with the picture.
I’m sorry to be ungallant but Ms. Buniatishvili must be the least able musician to come to international prominence in recent years.
Not just ungallant, but wrong.
Any examples of musicians less qualified?
To quote from her own bio:
Khatia Buniatishvili, shining pianist at the height of her abilities, came into this world in a shower of light during the summer solstice. On a human level, she is attracted more to equinoxes, being smitten by justice and seeking day and night in equal share. By lifting one’s eyes skywards one might notice her playing hide-and-seek with either Venus or Mercury. The cosmos is her garden and it is in its movement that she feels alive, astride a comet.
Yes, that says it all, and also about the world of classical music today.
Ugh…such pretentious clap trap.
Bravo to the women of Classical music…Khatia and Yuja are the future…
I say! All that talk that women are sentimental, unhinged, addicted to fancy dressing, believing obvious nonsense and seeking day and night in equal share, and cannot stop mayking typoos, is nonsense! We bring some life in an art too long suppressed by shabby-daddies who don’t dare to show their flesh!
Sally
It’s almost beyond belief that you would compare the two, Ms. Wang is one of the greatest pianists who has ever lived whether or not one is in sympathy with her approach. The other it would be kind to describe as barely competent.
The cynicism of it all… a performer cultivating a ridiculous kitsch image to get gigs, agents using her to sell to halls who cynically employ her to get gullible people buying tickets for a show instead of classical music, and the bottom line is money to be made.