Virtuously emotional
This legendary piano concerto is considered to contain the most notes per time in the solo part. Khatia Buniatishvili is not impressed by such superlatives: “She shapes her solo part with great expressiveness, but never loses the balance between fervent intensity and intelligent control over her playing,” is what BR Klassik wrote admiringly about her recording of Sergei Rachmaninov’s famous 3rd Piano Concerto.
Virtuosity, after all, is never an end in and of itself for the Georgian-French pianist, but is always at the disposition of her extraordinary emotionality.
With Honegger’s wildly sporty “Rugby” and Stravinsky’s dance-like “Petrushka”, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has added two more pieces to the program that are as expressive as they are complex.
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