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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.

It ever there was a "recital of two halves", then this was it, with a leaden Sonata in B flat major countered by blazing Liszt at the Barbican. 

Famed for her Liszt, the Georgian pianist also impressed with weighty, dignified Brahms in her International Piano Series recital.

The Chinese American pianist gives a confident, purposeful performance, without his personality quite shining through.

I suspect that we seek out many of the world’s great soloists beacuse we know what we will get, but we might well seek out Buniatishvili because we don’t.

Time honoured tradition has it that the pianist in a song recital plays the supporting role, hence the slightly derogatory term “accompanist”. Someone forgot to share that script with Giuseppe Vaccaro.

Julian Rachlin steps in at the last moment and scores a win on a winning score.

There are few composers for the piano as viscerally exciting as Franz Liszt and there are few pianists today who perform his music with as much visceral excitement as Khatia Buniatishvili. 

Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvilli dazzled and delighted in a highly accomplished performance of music by Mussorgsky and Liszt.

In Amsterdam, Mariss Jansons conducts the Concertgebouw orchestra in a selection of six stunning rhapsodies for large orchestra.

Un sorprendente cambio de programa determinó el devenir de un concierto que resultó superficial aun entretenido.

La Fondation Vuitton nous fait découvrir le jeune pianiste japonais Mao Fujita, premier prix au concours Clara Haskil l'an dernier. Il s'impose en maître de la digitalité dans un programme Liszt/Scriabine/Prokofiev. 

Mariss Jansons und das BRSO widmen zusammen mit Pianist Denis Matsuev einen Abend der Rhapsodie. España ist dabei der Ausgangspunkt für den Abend, bei dem Matsuev nicht vollkommen überzeugen kann.

Khatia Buniatishvili gestattete weder sich noch dem Publikum eine Atempause in diesem hamburger Konzert voller fingertechnischer Drahtseilakte.