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.
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.
Bravo to the women of Classical music…Khatia and Yuja are the future…