Khatia Buniatishvili en Oviedo: una velada de grandes contrastes

By Matteo Conti, 10 February 2018

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Reviewed at Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Oviedo on 8 February 2018

Brahms, Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor, Op.5

Tchaikovsky, Concert Suite from The Nutcracker

Liszt, Mephisto waltz no. 2, S 515

Liszt, Rhapsodie espagnole, S 254

Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Buniatishvili in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 24th March

Jonathan Nott and the OSR bring surgical precision to Debussy’s vivid sketches, while Khatia Buniatishvili’s Brahms evokes the soulful, improvisational warmth of a pre-war piano legend at the Elbphilharmonie.

****1

Protests disrupt the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Proms appearance

Dominic Lowe, 29th August

Despite the disruption, the musicians of the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín continue their interesting programme of Sutherland, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky.

***11

Highly individual Mozart from Buniatishvili

Nick Boston, 9th December

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields give exciting performances at the Barbican, with idiosyncratic Mozart from Buniatishvili.

***11

Khatia Buniatishvili in search of her lost fingers

Alain Lompech, 30th October

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto turns out to be a shipwreck for the Georgian pianist, despite an admirable Orchestre de Paris and conductor (Kirill Karabits).

*1111

Power and personality: Buniatishvili, Märkl, the Taiwan Philharmonic

Alexander Hall, 9th April

Khatia Buniatishvili may divide opinion, but for sheer visceral excitement she's hard to beat. Jun Märkl on tour with the Taiwan Philharmonic at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie impresses in milder ways.

****1

Quirky Rachmaninov from Buniatishvili and the RPO in Atlanta

William E Ford, 15th January

A most idiosyncratic version of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto from Khatia Buniatishvili along with a notable performance of Sibelius' Second Symphony from the RPO, touring the United States under Mark Wigglesworth.

***11

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Matteo Conti

Nacido en una familia de artistas, de madre pianista y padre pintor, a los diez años comenzó a tocar el piano en Italia, país donde nació. Dos años más tarde se trasladó a España y comenzó estudios oficiales de música en el Conservatorio Jesús de Monasterio de Santander. Tras ello, cursó el Título Superior de Piano en Oviedo y a continuación el máster de profesorado. Actualmente realiza el Máster de Musicología en la Universidad de La Rioja, actividad que compagina con sus otras pasiones: la enseñanza y la filosofía.