People are jealous of greatness. Khatia is very much like the great composers of their time: out of the box, risk taking performers, and brilliant. I give her freedom and applaud her sometimes unconventional style. I love it! Brava, Khatia!! 💕🌺💕
I guess that many of the negative comments have a no musical base... - you may should listen to Glenn Gould's piano transcription of Ravel's "La valse". - Then you might get an imagination of what Khatia Buniatishvili is doing! - She's excellent in every way... - perfect technique, style, expression, interpretation, performance and of course she's very beautiful. - But the last attribute unfortunately leads to underrate her musical skills... - Don't look at her beauty, listen to her music, sit back an just enjoy! - And do not compare a interpretation of a wonderful piano transcription with a traditional old fashioned orchestra performance...
For me a good musician is someone who suggests a possibility that is not visible until we listen to their performance. Why do they have to play what all people expect already in their mind? The pianists are not idiots, no one plays to ruin the composer's spirit, just open your mind and see what's inside. "Ravel should be like this" if you say this, that means you believe that the artificial intelligence can be an alternative to the arts someday, because robots can do so well what we expect.
People shouldn’t be limited to one type of performance. If u dislike her interpretation then listen to something else. Yes, it is rushed in the eyes of many but some people may enjoy it unlike others. I personally would prefer a slower interpretation but i still respect this performance.
@@lagunagreg4019 ravel is my favorite composer. And as a pianist personally i dont play music to please the people who wrote the music. I do it because i love the music. So if playing it different way pleases, why not play it that way. Classical music isnt some academic spectacle. Its supposed to be enjoyed just like any other type of music.
As a pianist that will stay up for 2 days trying every manner of way to find a pieces inner beauty, this makes sense to me. Although, I would prefer to rewrite the whole transcription of la valse myself. I personally think this transcription is reduced too much. It captures La valse from what I see to everyone as a means of showing off what the piano can do not what the music intended. Ravel himself stated: "This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion... pushed to the extreme. But one should only see in it what the music expresses: an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement". "Sergei Diaghilev hearing a two-piano reduction performed by Ravel and Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev said it was a "masterpiece" but rejected Ravel's work as "not a ballet. It's a portrait of ballet". Ravel, hurt by the comment, ended the relationship. Subsequently, it became a popular concert work..."
@@jadebrooks5138 - Do you understand what he wrote... - "Sergei Diaghilev hearing a two-piano reduction performed by Ravel and Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev said it was a "masterpiece" but rejected Ravel's work as "not a ballet. It's a portrait of ballet". Ravel, hurt by the comment, ended the relationship. Subsequently, it became a popular concert work..."
This pretty lady is very talented. Yet as exciting as it is to watch her play the piano at such a fast tempo, this just is not how "La Valse" is supposed to be played. Sounds much too rushed.
@@ldece627 by the same thinking, you don't know that this out of control mess is how it should go either. And it is indeed an out of control mess, ignores most of the composer's indications, quite unstylistic, et cetera.
Although Ravel said he did not mean for la valse to represent the decaying collapse of the old order (as Europe crashed into World War I) , it’s how so many understand the piece. Some people complain about the speed at which she plays, but to me it makes sense: how better to express headlong overindulgence than the pyrotechnics straining against the limits of her phenomenal technical ability? The fin de siecle interpretation represents an era where objective values were collapsing. We’re not merely watching la valse, we’re watching someone playing la valse.
😍fortunally the world are full of greath pianist(s. hough,perahia,L Zilberstein,Pizarro ,B. Rana,exc.).Still khatia govern and check all the lay of the sounds,and she re-made and re-feature the notes as a goddess of the nature.G . Gould said once in a interview that the best pianist of his childood was been hofmann...💘
And again i see "Messy" effect. Of course her technique just excellent but interpretation. Its soo fast. She just run. In some place I even dont hear notes. It must be played like valse, very lightness. But she just almost destroy it. Drink alcohol every time when she will do accelerando
Yes, of course! Khatia doesn’t understand the meaning of music, of technical etc…She isn’t able to understand anything! If Ravel wrote there Pianissimo, doesn’t matter!!! Khatia shake head and hit the piano!…. Did you listened Liszt’s ,,Mephisto Walz” or B minor Sonata with Khatia??? Are you serious????
Well I happen to agree. The girl likes to rush like crazy when it suits her. I don't think she follows one single indication by the composer. We hear a lot of Katie but very little Ravel. And her playing has actually gotten a lot better than it was a couple of years ago.
Khatia doesn’t understand the meaning of music, of technical etc…She isn’t able to understand anything! If Ravel wrote there Pianissimo, doesn’t matter! Khatia shake head and hit the piano! This is not possible!
@@gabrielneitzel1460- you keep harping on that comparison, but no, it is not necessary to make. Katia makes enough of an out of control mess of this piece that even her dress doesn't distract from it.
Oh please... How can you call any performance of this level disgusting. It shows your lack of artistic flexibility. It may not be what you would expect from a Ravel peace but that just makes it interesting and different. Nobody forces you to like this. Just don't call it disgusting please.
I am sorry, I admire the technical abilities of this pianist, but playing this masterpiece like this is just disappointing. So fast that at the end she plays half the notes.
쇼팽,라흐 등을 좋아하는 나로써는 솔직히 라발스라는게 처음 들었을땐 굉장히 기이하고 이상하게 들렸다 허나 이분은...아무리 지금의 적응되고 듣기좋은 라발스라지만 이분은 정말 해석이 독특하고 더욱 괴상하다 그런데 또 해석이 자기만의 개성으로 살리는건지 완전히 이상하게마냥 들리지는 또 않는다 이런 해석이 혹여나 진정한 라발스의 정의가 아닌지에 대한 조심스런 생각도 해보게 된다...
That someone feels it’s okay to post negative comments about an artist and/or a performance on several You Tube sites under a false name not taking any responsibility or justifying your remarks, is to me a sign of the decline of civilization. Take something for your headache and go listen to something else and be more productive as a human being.🌿
+loulou blue "... Speaking of flair, Buniatishvili emerged from the wings in a shiny silver dress, which said “Vegas.” The woman behind me remarked to the man she was with, “You don’t need to hear the music”-in other words, looking was enough. ... But, again, she was extreme. She slapped at the keyboard vulgarly. At one point, she stood up, the better to pound the keyboard. Her playing hurt my ears, ... And she seemed to play heedless of the public, heedless of pianistic norms, heedless of anything. I thought, “She’s in her own private Idaho.” ... Afterward, audience members went to the front of the hall, to take her picture. She beamed. She will obviously be a “star,” and is probably one already: the dress, the lionessness, the loudness. I imagine she’ll be known as “Khatia,” with the “Buniatishvili” on the sidelines."... THE NEW CRITERION by Jay Nordlinger, New York City ... "But Buniatishvili, who performed in a glittery, bright-red dress, was all about self-indulgence. Sometimes grotesquely distorted, this was music reflected in the aural equivalent of funhouse mirrors. One could only guess that the standing ovations, whoops and bravas came from people not well acquainted with the pieces." ... THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS Scott Cantell ..."No matter how fast she plays, no matter what the character of the music, everything comes across the same way - the pianistic equivalent of a society wedding photograph, with edges blurred and defining human characteristics removed. ... Buniatishvili is neither careless nor ungifted. She is simply overhyped, immature and preoccupied with beauty of presentation - a poor example to the legions of young pianists who aspire to her fame and fortune. At no point did this recital reveal a shred of the musical temperament we expect of a scion of Georgian musical tradition." ... THE FINANCIAL TIMES Ltd 2014 06.06.2014 THE GUARDIAN classical music Wigmore Hall, London Andrew Clements Thursday 2 April 2015 12.28 BST ...The good news is that the piano survived it all intact; the bad is that on the question of whether Buniatishvili can ever be a serious artist, the jury is very much still out.
People are jealous of greatness. Khatia is very much like the great composers of their time: out of the box, risk taking performers, and brilliant. I give her freedom and applaud her sometimes unconventional style. I love it! Brava, Khatia!! 💕🌺💕
Saw the length of this performance and already knew what I was going to get...
I guess that many of the negative comments have a no musical base... - you may should listen to Glenn Gould's piano transcription of Ravel's "La valse". - Then you might get an imagination of what Khatia Buniatishvili is doing! - She's excellent in every way... - perfect technique, style, expression, interpretation, performance and of course she's very beautiful. - But the last attribute unfortunately leads to underrate her musical skills... - Don't look at her beauty, listen to her music, sit back an just enjoy! - And do not compare a interpretation of a wonderful piano transcription with a traditional old fashioned orchestra performance...
I agree, so many people are spoiled by other recordings to the point where an objectively good performance is apparently trash.
So did she catch her train?
I *like* how fast she plays this, but this a very good joke.
O sorriso dessa menina é de quem sabe que nos deu um presente . Gratidão , Bela .❤🌹🌹🌹
For me a good musician is someone who suggests a possibility that is not visible until we listen to their performance. Why do they have to play what all people expect already in their mind? The pianists are not idiots, no one plays to ruin the composer's spirit, just open your mind and see what's inside. "Ravel should be like this" if you say this, that means you believe that the artificial intelligence can be an alternative to the arts someday, because robots can do so well what we expect.
Like how succinctly you expressed this.
CARISSIMA KHATIA.....LA TU ENERGIA INTERPRETATIVA AL PIANOFORTE DIVINIZZA LA MUSICA. UN BACIONE JO
Muy cierto. ¡Gracias!
Khatia je t’admirent je t’aime ton toucher est unique personne d’autre que toi sais jouer de cette façon 💟💟💟💟💟
Speedrun complete!
People shouldn’t be limited to one type of performance. If u dislike her interpretation then listen to something else. Yes, it is rushed in the eyes of many but some people may enjoy it unlike others. I personally would prefer a slower interpretation but i still respect this performance.
Does it occur to you that Ravel never meant for this piece to be played like this? Is that important to you at all?
@@lagunagreg4019 ravel is my favorite composer. And as a pianist personally i dont play music to please the people who wrote the music. I do it because i love the music. So if playing it different way pleases, why not play it that way. Classical music isnt some academic spectacle. Its supposed to be enjoyed just like any other type of music.
......why?
As a pianist that will stay up for 2 days trying every manner of way to find a pieces inner beauty, this makes sense to me.
Although, I would prefer to rewrite the whole transcription of la valse myself. I personally think this transcription is reduced too much.
It captures La valse from what I see to everyone as a means of showing off what the piano can do not what the music intended.
Ravel himself stated:
"This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion... pushed to the extreme. But one should only see in it what the music expresses: an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement".
"Sergei Diaghilev hearing a two-piano reduction performed by Ravel and Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev said it was a "masterpiece" but rejected Ravel's work as "not a ballet. It's a portrait of ballet". Ravel, hurt by the comment, ended the relationship. Subsequently, it became a popular concert work..."
@@jadebrooks5138 - Do you understand what he wrote... - "Sergei Diaghilev hearing a two-piano reduction performed by Ravel and Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev said it was a "masterpiece" but rejected Ravel's work as "not a ballet. It's a portrait of ballet". Ravel, hurt by the comment, ended the relationship. Subsequently, it became a popular concert work..."
You should check out Gryaznov’s transcription - it preserves a lot of details from the original
Yes, is a run! But is awesome! Incredible, khatia, a new la valse!
This pretty lady is very talented. Yet as exciting as it is to watch her play the piano at such a fast tempo, this just is not how "La Valse" is supposed to be played. Sounds much too rushed.
At least it's better than Glenn Gould's interpretation lmao
@@ldece627 by the same thinking, you don't know that this out of control mess is how it should go either. And it is indeed an out of control mess, ignores most of the composer's indications, quite unstylistic, et cetera.
Потрясающая Катя!Виртуозность уровня бог.Музыкальность,свобода,красота-все лучшие эпитеты!
No more funny than Kahtia playing la valse
Although Ravel said he did not mean for la valse to represent the decaying collapse of the old order (as Europe crashed into World War I) , it’s how so many understand the piece. Some people complain about the speed at which she plays, but to me it makes sense: how better to express headlong overindulgence than the pyrotechnics straining against the limits of her phenomenal technical ability? The fin de siecle interpretation represents an era where objective values were collapsing. We’re not merely watching la valse, we’re watching someone playing la valse.
This Is a great Ravel's walse personal and emotional interpretation
Almost as egregious as her other performance on YT!
😍fortunally the world are full of greath pianist(s. hough,perahia,L Zilberstein,Pizarro ,B. Rana,exc.).Still khatia govern and check all the lay of the sounds,and she re-made and re-feature the notes as a goddess of the nature.G . Gould said once in a interview that the best pianist of his childood was been hofmann...💘
A certainly controversial performance
True!
And again i see "Messy" effect. Of course her technique just excellent but interpretation. Its soo fast. She just run. In some place I even dont hear notes. It must be played like valse, very lightness. But she just almost destroy it. Drink alcohol every time when she will do accelerando
...OMG! 🤔
This is the most UNMUSICAL interpretation I have ever heard.
Yes, of course! Khatia doesn’t understand the meaning of music, of technical etc…She isn’t able to understand anything! If Ravel wrote there Pianissimo, doesn’t matter!!! Khatia shake head and hit the piano!….
Did you listened Liszt’s ,,Mephisto Walz” or B minor Sonata with Khatia??? Are you serious????
Well I happen to agree. The girl likes to rush like crazy when it suits her. I don't think she follows one single indication by the composer. We hear a lot of Katie but very little Ravel. And her playing has actually gotten a lot better than it was a couple of years ago.
I thought I left the playback speed at 1.5 by accident 😧
I like this performance more than others, because its a bit faster, harder and that is exactly this, what I love on Kathia, Bravo Kathia!
Khatia doesn’t understand the meaning of music, of technical etc…She isn’t able to understand anything! If Ravel wrote there Pianissimo, doesn’t matter! Khatia shake head and hit the piano! This is not possible!
ძალიან მიყვარს ხატია, მაგრამ ამ ინტერპრეტაციამ გული დამწყვიტა.
Yuja Wang მოისმინეთ
ეს ვალსი
მართლა უნიკალურია
Subjugating and Paralizing. No one can remain emotionally indifferent.
Khatia's technic is very good. But, She's La Valse is very fast and no musicaly
besides I can't hear what Ravel's intention
Listen to Glenn Gould's piano transcription of "La valse" ua-cam.com/video/BS0i9aCGclc/v-deo.html - then you may change your mind.
@@gabrielneitzel1460- you keep harping on that comparison, but no, it is not necessary to make. Katia makes enough of an out of control mess of this piece that even her dress doesn't distract from it.
Carissima KHATIA.....SEI ....S T E L L A R E.......TI AMMIRO INFINITAMENTE. UN ABBRACCIO JO ALBOT
simplemente espectacular, le hace el amor al piano
Y del piano salen llamas espirituales de fuego y de amor. Al final, yo temblada y casi me puse a llorar. Jamas sentí un efecto igual!
Je ne sais pas danser, mais je sais écouter
Ela é uma valsa de carne e ossos e muita beleza .❤🌹🌹🌹
Disgusting, disgusting, this is not Ravel.......
Fritz Kirchhoff Hello Amigo Fritz! of course that you are in the second option!
Yes I totally agree...
Agreed....its rushed and all over the place.
Oh please... How can you call any performance of this level disgusting. It shows your lack of artistic flexibility. It may not be what you would expect from a Ravel peace but that just makes it interesting and different. Nobody forces you to like this. Just don't call it disgusting please.
Seong jin Cho es brillante
Wow
God knows how many times I tried to understand her intentions but…There’s no sense or elegance, just her beautiful figure. But you know…beauty fades…
it's already gone
😢😂
She's so deliberate in her approach that it seems almost cheap to chastise her perf
Well to me she sounds out of control in several spots, too many. And this is so much better than it was a couple of years ago.
Horrible
Trop rapide! Trop mélangé ! Elle a tuée la valse!
I think you should slow down the song a bit. I think that it was played to fast that the epic ending was kind of blurred
I am sorry, I admire the technical abilities of this pianist, but playing this masterpiece like this is just disappointing. So fast that at the end she plays half the notes.
I love her interpretation. except Ravel La Valse. I cannot find composer's intend.
I can accept her Mephisto Waltz which is also faster than average time but this La Valse is just too fast and blurry for my tastes
Gran intérprete, magistral, hermosa, con gran pasión. La mejor versión para piano conocida hasta ahora
It'd be hard to find a worse performance of any other piece of music by a professional.
An opinion voiced by a nobody who hides behind a made-up name. Get another cheap hobby, please.
I like this part from 3:20
le pied !
Ela tem grandes habilidades, mas com certeza isso é uma La Valse para apressados... lol
like or dislike that is the problem but it is Ravel?? need what? for beeing better
fantastic
와
My ears hurt.
What a mess…
ugh she sounds like a typewriter
All of these comments are from people who can’t/don’t play. Clearly.
Oh I can play this piece just fine, and have taught it a few times as well.
Kathia doesn't get Ravel. I'm afraid she's too girlish to the point of slapstick silliness?
쇼팽,라흐 등을 좋아하는 나로써는 솔직히 라발스라는게 처음 들었을땐 굉장히 기이하고 이상하게 들렸다
허나 이분은...아무리 지금의 적응되고 듣기좋은 라발스라지만 이분은 정말 해석이 독특하고 더욱 괴상하다
그런데 또 해석이 자기만의 개성으로 살리는건지 완전히 이상하게마냥 들리지는 또 않는다
이런 해석이 혹여나 진정한 라발스의 정의가 아닌지에 대한 조심스런 생각도 해보게 된다...
The worst performance I’ve ever heard . Ravel would be angry
That ovation is symptomatic of western civilization's moral and intellectual decline.
That someone feels it’s okay to post negative comments about an artist and/or a performance on several You Tube sites under a false name not taking any responsibility or justifying your remarks, is to me a sign of the decline of civilization. Take something for your headache and go listen to something else and be more productive as a human being.🌿
@@capemaxi- well I think your inability to express any artistic restraint or judgement is also.a sign of what we all must tolerate from the masses.
J’adore Khatia j’adore Ravel mais.. cette interprétation est trop mécanique et il n’y a pas beaucoup de émotion 😭 Dommage
Una interpretación maravillosa de Khatia !!!
nice girl but but what else??
+loulou blue
"... Speaking of flair, Buniatishvili emerged from the wings in a shiny
silver dress, which said “Vegas.” The woman behind me remarked to the
man she was with, “You don’t need to hear the music”-in other words,
looking was enough. ... But, again, she was extreme. She slapped at the
keyboard vulgarly. At one point, she stood up, the better to pound the
keyboard. Her playing hurt my ears, ... And she seemed to play heedless
of the public, heedless of pianistic norms, heedless of anything. I
thought, “She’s in her own private Idaho.” ... Afterward, audience
members went to the front of the hall, to take her picture. She beamed.
She will obviously be a “star,” and is probably one already: the dress,
the lionessness, the loudness. I imagine she’ll be known as “Khatia,”
with the “Buniatishvili” on the sidelines."... THE NEW CRITERION
by Jay Nordlinger, New York City
... "But
Buniatishvili, who performed in a glittery, bright-red dress, was all
about self-indulgence. Sometimes grotesquely distorted, this was music
reflected in the aural equivalent of funhouse mirrors. One could only
guess that the standing ovations, whoops and bravas came from people not
well acquainted with the pieces." ... THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Scott Cantell
..."No matter how fast she plays, no matter what
the character of the music, everything comes across the same way - the
pianistic equivalent of a society wedding photograph, with edges blurred
and defining human characteristics removed. ... Buniatishvili is
neither careless nor ungifted. She is simply overhyped, immature and
preoccupied with beauty of presentation - a poor example to the legions
of young pianists who aspire to her fame and fortune. At no point did
this recital reveal a shred of the musical temperament we expect of a
scion of Georgian musical tradition." ... THE FINANCIAL TIMES Ltd 2014
06.06.2014
THE GUARDIAN classical music Wigmore Hall, London
Andrew
Clements Thursday 2 April 2015 12.28 BST
...The good news is that the piano survived it all intact; the bad is
that
on the question of whether Buniatishvili can ever be a serious artist,
the jury is very much still out.
Ridiculously fast tempos and a lot of "excitement".... Her teachers must throw their hands up in despair!
i prefer the valse by g gould! and yuja wang