Khatia Buniatishvili: Labyrinth version on vinyl 2LP in Standard edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company Sony Classical on 19. February 2021.

Khatia Buniatishvili's new recording for Sony Classical is as imaginative, sensitive and philosophical as the award-winning pianist herself. The concept album "Labyrinth" explores the immeasurable quest that is human life. Like a film, it follows the evolution of procrastination, melancholy, sensuality, joy and suffering - all from the perspective of a woman enlightened by self-reflection and wisdom. Recorded in the Pierre Boulez Grand Hall of the Paris Philharmonic, the recording creates its own almost surreal space using the richly imaginative tonal language of composers from Scarlatti to Morricone, Bach to Glass. The labyrinth, says the French-Georgian pianist, is fate and creation, dead ends and redemption - a polyphony of life, of the senses, of remembered dreams, of neglected present; of unexpected or expected twists and turns of the spoken or unspoken... the labyrinth of our minds. On the album "Labyrinth", Khatia Buniatishvili presents her most varied and diverse selection of music to date. With her characteristic uncompromisingness, she puts her extraordinary piano playing at the service of the imagination and describes - with all its joys and sorrows - a woman's dance with life. The album features film music by Philip Glass (The Hours) and the recently deceased Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America), whom Khatia Buniatishvili says "deserves his place among the greats". Also included are piano paintings by Erik Satie and Serge Gainsbourg, Latin American dance by Heitor Villa-Lobos, an Estonian prayer by Arvo Pärt, a Hungarian etude by György Ligeti, John Cage's infamous presentation of musical silence, and works by Scarlatti, Brahms, Bach, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Couperin and Liszt. For the album Khatia Buniatishvili also arranged some pieces herself, such as Bach's Badinerie for piano four hands and his Sicilienne BWV 596 after Vivaldi's Concerto in D minor RV 565. Khatia Buniatishvili is a unique phenomenon in classical music: the delicacy of her touch is unparalleled and she can tell stories and put them in the right light with the sensitivity of a film director. The pianist has worked closely with top musicians such as Zubin Mehta, Paavo Järvi and Gidon Kremer, with whom she has recorded several CDs.

Album spans genres Classical, Baroque, Romantic and Contemporary classical. 180g Vinyl.