Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 88697766042
Release: 2011
Size: 224 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
02. Lento assai – Allegro energico – Grandioso
03. Andante sostenuto
04. Allegro energico
05. Mephisto Waltz No. 1
06. La lugubre gondola, S. 200
Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach, BWV 543-548, S.462
07. No. 1, Prelude in A Minor (After BWV 543)
08. No. 1, Fugue in A Minor (After BWV 543)
Recent Sony Classical signing Khatia Buniatishvili is a phenomenal and acclaimed young artist, and regarded as one of the great pianists of the future. Her debut album for Sony Classical is devoted to Franz Liszt, with a focus on the Faust theme: Liszt’s third Liebestraum is characterised by the line from Goethe’s Faust: ”O stay! Thou art so fair!” and the Mephisto Waltz was inspired by an episode in Nikolaus Lenau’s Faust poem. Moreover Khatia Buniatishvili reads Faust, Marguerite and Mephisto into the themes of the centrepiece of the recording, the Sonata in B Minor – technically one of the most demanding works ever written for piano.