Winter warmer: Khatia wins London residency
NewsThe Barbican autumn-winter seasons, announced this morning, contains a James Macmillan world premiere conducted by Antonio Pappano, a visit by Gustavo Dudamel with his Simon Bolivar orchestra of Venezuela (all friends now) and a surprising spotlight residency.
From Tbilisi via Paris, put your palms together for Khatia Buniatishvili.
Your ‘palns’ so stuck together already you can’t type with excitement? Sun journalism at its best!
If this site had pages, this would be the daily Page 3 Model : )
London engaged Khatia, NY engaged Yuja.
And they say orchestra management doesn’t know how to reach out to the masses.
Marketing. Always marketing.
Please don’t lump Khatia and Yuja together – the former is Pepsi and the latter is Champagne.
Ms Wang is a magnificent pianist. The other not so much.
“(all friends now)”
This is nothing short of scandalous. As I write, Putin’s friend and ally Nicolás Maduro – whose regime top brass Gustavo Dudamel counts among his personal friends – is preventing opposition front-runner Maria Corina Machado from running for president, knowing she would win by a landslide. She is the Navalny of Venezuela, poison and death aside. While the progressive world quite rightly ejects Putin’s thugs from the cultural space, it welcomes Dudamel and his regime-owned propaganda machine masquerading as an orchestra. And in New York, where GD is now king, homeless Venezuelan migrants line the streets, dispossessed by the very same tyranny that will deliver the Simon Bolivar Orchestra to the braying Barbican audience. To Venezuelans, the ironies are profound, bitter and demoralizing. They understand the fundamental reality that music transforms nothing as long as it serves tyranny.
Another one to be avoided.
Alright. Since no one else will say it, I’ll say it. Va-va-voom!
no one has said it because classical music fans are predominantly gay males.
So she will be commuting from her Paris house to London?
Wonder why no American orchestra has engaged her yet, only her violinist sister.
Actually, Khatia Buniatishvili has performed with at least one US orchestra (LA Phil) and her sister (Gvantsa) is a pianist, not a violinist. If you are thinking of Lisa Batiashvili (rather common error), she is a fabulous violinist indeed, but is not related to KB at all.
She is clearly popular but she does have her knockers.
The series will be known as “Boobs at the Barbican”.
Or “The Boobican Series”, it will sell like hotcakes.
Don’t know why she gets so much hate. She can actually play and play well, even if some of her interpretive decisions are controversial (her Schubert D. 960 is quite something, and actually quite compelling in its way). She’s certainly a far more interesting artist and interpreter than Yuja. I wish people looked beyond the obvious, shall we say, assets, and actually listened with an open mind.
Yes she certainly can play the notes and she usually does so while exaggerating much in her typically self-indulgent manner of interpretation that often crosses the line into poor taste – in other words, a full level below the brilliant Yuja Wang.
You are describing Lang Lang to a tee, not Khatia. Her “Pictures at an Exhibition” on youtube is great!
In terms of self-indulgent exaggerations of her interpretations, KB is pretty close to LL, but she does not have his very beautiful tone.
Once again the editor falls into the comfort zone of click bait journalism. Everything about this screams anachronism.