CD From Hell: Khatia Buniatishvili Defaces “Pictures”

Jed Distler

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Several piano pedagogues warned me about Khatia Buniatishvili’s recording of […]

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Album Title: Kaleidoscope
Reference Recording: Mussorgsky: Bronfman (Sony), Ravel: Muraro (Accord), Stravinsky: Pollini (DG)

MODEST MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
MAURICE RAVEL: La Valse
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Three Movements from Petrouchka

    Soloists: Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

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