Khatia Buniatishvili in Search of Faust

Acclaimed young pianist Khatia Buniatishvili’s debut album for Sony Classical is devoted to Franz Liszt. Although she sees herself as belonging truly to the 21st century, like the Romantics, she looks for greatness in small things, for the universal in the individual. And in the music of Liszt, she seeks and finds her idea of musical completeness and pianistic perfection. The repertoire places a focus on the Faust theme: Liszt’s third Liebestraum is characterised by the thought 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 centerpiece of the recording, the Sonata in B Minor – technically one of the most demanding works ever written for piano.

Khatia Buniatisvili plays Liszt’s Nocturne No. 3 in A-flat Major (Liebestraum):

Piano sheet music, Liszt’s Nocturne No. 3 in A-flat Major (Liebestraum)::