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[Draško]

What is she doing? 

Bigger question is what is she doing with Andante sostenuto of D960 at fourteen and a half minutes 

[Mandryka]

Bigger question is what is she doing with Andante sostenuto of D960 at fourteen and a half minutes 

Ha I noticed that too!

[Que]

Bigger question is what is she doing with Andante sostenuto of D960 at fourteen and a half minutes 

She seems to be very leisurely.... 

I know a nice of her quite closely, also a musician, and she told me that the mother of Khatia is staging these poses, for she know the financial effect of them.

If it sells, it sells....

Q

[André]

She stopped to smell the flowers.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

She stopped to smell the flowers.

...and fell in.

[Mandryka]

Why, Schuberting no doubt...

Jokes aside, I'm interested in hearing it, the lady is a very fine pianist.

I guess you've heard this

https://www.youtube.com/v/2cmcR88yHe4

[Florestan]

I guess you've heard this

https://www.youtube.com/v/2cmcR88yHe4

I haven't, thanks for posting it.

[San Antone]

I have considered Buniatishvili more sizzle than steak - her recording of the Liszt B Minor (a work I have listened to 250+ recordings of) is not in my top fifty recordings: a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, IMO.  Maybe she's gotten better, I haven't kept up with her more recent releases.

[Mandryka]

the Liszt B Minor (a work I have listened to 250+ recordings of)

Bloody hell!

[San Antone]

Bloody hell!

Yeah, it is an ongoing project and one of the only times where I am comparing recordings and with a way to rank them.  It is frustrating since I had it 99% completed in 2015 but because of a flash drive glitch lost my documents and had to go back to the last saved version which was only about 50% complete.  I've been slowly going back and re-listening and rating them but I've only gotten the first 100 done.

You might say I am a Liszt B minor sonata obsessive.

[Mandryka]

I have considered Buniatishvili more sizzle than steak - her recording of the Liszt B Minor (a work I have listened to 250+ recordings of) is not in my top fifty recordings: a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, IMO.  Maybe she's gotten better, I haven't kept up with her more recent releases.

Most of the music she's recorded doesn't interest me much so I haven't followed her, but I have listened to her Chopin sonata. What I will say is that I like very much the sound she makes, soft and sweet, with lots of air between the voices. And I like the total eradication of domineering foceful aggression.

[Mandryka]

Why, Schuberting no doubt...

Jokes aside, I'm interested in hearing it, the lady is a very fine pianist.

You can hear the Schubert/Liszt Ständchen from that recording on Spotify. It has her distinctive sound and voicing, which I like so much. It is slow and sometimes a bit plodding in terms of rhythm (compare her Bach arrangement on the CD Motherland.)

[Wanderer]

Is that the artist?  What is she doing? 

I'd say she's in a Pre-Raphaelite mode, possibly trying to emulate the pose of Ophelia by Millais:

[Madiel]

I'd say she's in a Pre-Raphaelite mode, possibly trying to emulate the pose of Ophelia by Millais:

Which reminds me, I think that painting is in  town right now...

[Wanderer]

Which reminds me, I think that painting is in  town right now...

It is!
Along with, among others, Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott.

[Mandryka]

with a way to rank them.

Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhhhh. Kill me now!

[betterthanfine]

I'd say she's in a Pre-Raphaelite mode, possibly trying to emulate the pose of Ophelia by Millais:

Seems to be a popular theme in upcoming releases:

[Alek Hidell]

Since it's Schubert, the first thing that came to my mind was Death and the Maiden. But of course that's not a piano piece, nor does she include an arrangement of it on the disc (if one has been done).

[Florestan]

Since it's Schubert, the first thing that came to my mind was Death and the Maiden. But of course that's not a piano piece, nor does she include an arrangement of it on the disc (if one has been done).

There is a four-hand one by Robert Franz, available on this disc:

[Todd]

(No proper cover yet.)