Orchestre National de Lyon Leonard Slatkin (Conductor) Khatia Buniatishvili (Piano) February 11, 2017
@alanwarburton8362
2 жыл бұрын
Mowjhawke
@alanwarburton8362
2 жыл бұрын
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@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
What words, dear "bloodgrss", how many emotions! Did I step on your foot, respected businessman who sells half-naked, barefoot, busty whiskey drinkers who call themselves "pianists"?! Owning a piano keyboard is not yet an art, it is a craft! Therefore, your "pianists" attract the attention of an uneducated audience with their half-naked body, bare feet and other tricks. As their bodies age, these "pianists" will disappear! Together with them, you will disappear, dear "bloodgrss"! And we will all say goodbye to you: Ciao, baby!!! With your propaganda of the "attractive young half-naked body" you block the way to the stage for really talented people. Your place is the garbage pit of history!
@Vodichka9
2 жыл бұрын
@Georges Can can You're the proverbial swine gazing at pearls. One wonders how little shame you have in publicly exposing yourself.
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
@@Vodichka9 You are deeply mistaken if you think classical music is meant to boost testosterone levels in your aging body! This "lady" shamelessly sells her body, she successfully sells her body in her other videos. It is precisely such "lovers of classical music" as you, dear sir, who destroy classical music by writing sweet comments. It is these "lovers of classical music" who drool and snot at the sight of the "fresh body" of a pianist! kzitem.info/news/bejne/t3iQzoRpmoKSgYo
@jazluvr99
17 күн бұрын
To say that I am blown away by this performance would be a gross understatement. Beauty, style, elegance, God-given talent, flawless technique - and that extra special flair for the dramatic - Khatia is beyond compare. Oh, I almost forgot that incredible orchestra! 😉 Wonderful performance of this timeless classic.
Thinking same. How fortunate I am to hear & see this performance.
@randybenjamin5685
4 ай бұрын
Today, February 12th 2024, is the 100th Anniversary of the first performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" . This performance is magnificent.
@skopp888
Жыл бұрын
The genius of Rhapsody in Blue is how it invokes such a feeling of well being, of familiarity, of nostalgia. Of a time gone by, of good times, of better times. Of good times still to come
@timford3599
Жыл бұрын
Beautifully stated Rishie.
@Jacquiejo2012
5 ай бұрын
This was magnificently and masterfully preformed!
@cpalmer5033
3 ай бұрын
N@@Jacquiejo2012
@kirbyculp3449
2 ай бұрын
After listening many many times I have finally felt that this music describes the feelings of a man that is going on a date for dancing with his beautiful future wife.
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
16 күн бұрын
@@kirbyculp3449 You need HER !
@DanielDaniel1
Жыл бұрын
Nobody mentioning how masterfully this was recorded and mixed. Huge shout out to the sound team
@MariusRiley
Жыл бұрын
💯
@pierre-gabrieljobin9450
Жыл бұрын
Indeed the sound of this colourful piece is very rich and very well mixed.
@IsraelChaffin
Жыл бұрын
No doubt! And the camera angles with shot duration and switching was engaging-it pulled me further in and gave me the joy of seeing key players as they expressed the beauty within their soul.
@williamherndon4873
Жыл бұрын
Improving on perfection….you just wit nessed it
@LucBoeren
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@DecoWorks4u
Жыл бұрын
That clarinet intro almost squeezed the life out of me. Sensational performance
@YewtBoot
Жыл бұрын
He was masterful at it, and Khatia certainly made good note of it.
@spikespa5208
Жыл бұрын
Her expression at his little embellishment at 0:47. Priceless. And again at 5:12.
@jakerazmataz852
8 ай бұрын
Flawless.
@FreeCandle
7 ай бұрын
Came to say this!
@craigcarlson4022
6 ай бұрын
Yes, indeed!
@301rs
3 ай бұрын
What a privilege! Without modern technology and KZitem, I probably would have never seen this wonderful performance. The artistry of Khatia and the accompanying orchestra are pure magic!
@kevinburnson
2 ай бұрын
One wonderful piece of music!! You can see the pride, the passion, the pleasure in the faces of these musicians!! BRAVO!! This is what you get when great orchestras and great music come together. What a treat for body and soul.
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
2 ай бұрын
@@kevinburnson I suppose you mean BODY !!!
@tomskimcdouglegaming806
5 күн бұрын
And those tiddies. Spectacular.
@valeriecoopet9897
4 ай бұрын
I am not a musician, but I am pretty sure most musicians are magical creatures put on earth to create beauty.
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
2 ай бұрын
Pfffff !!!!!
@rickhunter7
24 күн бұрын
Here's a secret: being a musician is more about hard work than talent. Sure being talented helps but most of it is just practice, so, in reality anyone can be a musician with enough effort.
@lucashankins9425
Жыл бұрын
George never imagined this being played so well.
@danoneill8751
8 ай бұрын
Holy crap. Statistically speaking, no one will ever do anything so well as that pianist in that performance.
@benthread
27 күн бұрын
Playing with Khatia is like playing with the composer of all her pieces. She represents them. She embodies the soul of every piece she plays and she can play anything. And she revives these pieces for the audience and her fellow players who I can imagine love playing with her more than anything. She is a performer but also a channeler.
@jimwalker5412
Жыл бұрын
I'm 75 yoa my Father passed away when I was 12 yoa RIB was his favorite piece of music, this just brought me to tears, Love you Dad
@789armstrong
2 жыл бұрын
If Gershwin had seen this performance he would write another rhapsody just for Khatia.
@dominiquedesbarres7433
2 жыл бұрын
Gershwin sees and hears her.
@christopherczajasager9030
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed. "Rhapdody for Boobs"?
@jaewok5G
2 жыл бұрын
maybe for Cyan … ya know, to give it some contemporaneousness
@oldblckmajic
2 жыл бұрын
I agree totally.
@rafaelventura-rosa4688
2 жыл бұрын
@@christopherczajasager9030 play nice Chris
@nnaHume
27 күн бұрын
Эта девушка восхитительна!!!!! Просто глаз не оторвать от игры и ее эмоций!!!❤
@shaunweaver2107
8 ай бұрын
I love how Ms. Buniatishvili not only enjoys playing, but seems to thoroughly enjoy listening to the orchestra as well. Her phrasing is so clear, precise and full of expression. What a joy! What a great recording. Bravo to all!
@patrickrussell1888
3 ай бұрын
Well, my Leonard Berstein version of the 60s was due for modernization...and this version did just that! 😊
@James-un8rr
2 ай бұрын
Truely real angels ,,!,❤❤❤
@HanWijman
4 ай бұрын
Rhapsody in Blue was played at the funeral of my late Father. Afterwards we got so many compliments about the beautiful music. A lot of new fans.
@RonCook-ny3lo
Жыл бұрын
I am 88 years old. I have heard this composition many many times. I have never heard it performed this well by a performer who seems to totally enjoy it. I am sure if George were listening to this particular performance, he would say "Ah. This is what I heard when I composed it."
@UKOnation
Жыл бұрын
I didn´t read many answers ( exaktly it´s only yours at the moment), but I´m shure, this is the best comparison and also compliment to her, which can be given. I agree 100 %.
@AFMMarcelD
Жыл бұрын
May you have many, many more years of listening pleasure in the company of great composers. I'm 64, been listening to it since I was a kid, best music in the world.
@dawhike
Жыл бұрын
This type music keeps us ALL ALIVE! I hope I'm still kicking at 88! 😎
@t.s.t.4085
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for erudite/sweet, comments. I'm 55+: Sang, played clarinet, sang again, acted, and (Yuch....) Sang, and sang, and sang.......
@t.s.t.4085
Жыл бұрын
Tell us so much more about yourself, 88-year old. We (U.S.) want(s) to learn.
@unclemarkmark
Жыл бұрын
Khatia obviously dropped down from heaven to play this.
@vacancywithin
4 ай бұрын
She could have dropped by to see me, but she chose this instead. 😢
@mysterj1
3 ай бұрын
Whew. Stunning performance by a stunning woman.
@user-hz2kn3nv3z
Ай бұрын
I've watched this video 10 times, it never gets old! Khatia is just fantastic! So talented, no sheet music, so fast her fingers blur! She crosses her hands, how do you do that! Her expressions are just as interesting to watch, you can tell she is enjoying herself performing RIB, and she cues the rest of the orchestra with just a look. The orchestra is fantastic, and I agree the sound and video people captured the performance perfectly. What a blessing to run across this on U-tube.
@lucashankins9425
5 ай бұрын
She is a temptress. I love the enthusiasm she brings to the orchestra. She makes eye contact to confirm the next movement is ready.
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
5 ай бұрын
She only makes eye contact to ..... poor man !
@lucashankins9425
4 ай бұрын
@@user-yl9fs8mj9q Is it a demand or flirt? Maybe both…
@bobsmachine618
Жыл бұрын
The look on her face seems to say "This is what all the hard work was for, and it was worth it.". All the musicians in this performance are exceptional.
@Frankincensedjb123
Жыл бұрын
It seems to say I'm a total histrionic
@haroldsmith8969
Жыл бұрын
Agree 100 percent
@pauljohnlongua4093
Жыл бұрын
Or...My farts don't stink. 😜
@patricksirmon6555
Жыл бұрын
The look she would give to the individuals during their solos was almost if they were performing it directly to her. ❤❤❤
@kcmichaelm
Жыл бұрын
This was my favorite part!! It seemed a heartfelt acknowledgment of the back-and-forth which makes the piece so wonderful. It felt like each part playing off each other. This was the first time I’ve ever seen Bernstein’s production topped.
@entelektuel.yolculuk
6 ай бұрын
@@kcmichaelm me favourite part is her whole body :))
@terrybrowning5143
11 ай бұрын
the clarinetist stole the show...certainly my heart!.....that ascension...flawless!
@nortledorfus
Жыл бұрын
This is THE MOST MOVING MUSIC I'VE EVER HEARD...and I'm 73 years old. Her performance and that of the orchestra was absolutely OUTSTANDING. Brought me to tears.
@noeliafernandez9478
11 ай бұрын
Excelente interpretación !pianista y orquesta
@lukebradley3193
7 ай бұрын
The classic American symphony in my opinion. It was composed a couple years before the great depression, but it seems to define the spirit that carried America through that, and into the Looney Tunes act of involving itself in WWII. Just this beautiful chaos to the piece, all these distractions and victories. The pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, was apparently born in the Soviet Union, and it's something to think that with her semitic features she may not have even been born to play the piece had America not found that strength to involve itself in world affairs when very poor. All the pieces just come together in this performance, to make this incredible thing. Music is such a universal language, there really isn't anything anyone needs to say if one can really listen, and YOU sir, can obviously really listen...
@bennywyman1
5 ай бұрын
😅
@semajtee
5 ай бұрын
Me too!
@ofdrumsandchords
5 ай бұрын
Great performance, indeed. Happy man, with so many masterpieces to discover. Musicians have a say. Mozart is a man talking to God, Bach is God talking to men.
@joeherald7319
Жыл бұрын
Just one guy's opinion but, I think is the most moving piece of music ever written. It's got some of the musical stylings of the best of 20th century America. There's: classical, jazz, big band, stride piano, banjo, march tempo, blues, concerto and more. And in this performance Khatia totally "gets it". And the way she is dressed adds an extra 1940's swanky night club aura to this beautiful presentation. PS- I could watch this every day and get chills every time.
@renendell
3 ай бұрын
You’re not alone. It’s one of my favorites
@wa1-marketing955
2 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree ..
@mikeaubrey1310
Ай бұрын
i just sent a half dozen texts suggesting that this is the finest music ever written. 100 yrs old. this version is the best of the best. you are correct. at 9min 35 seconds is proof
@charlotteb.derrick5117
Ай бұрын
Spot on you are! One of my all time favorites….I must add you are very observant….on all points….💜💜💜
@jazluvr99
17 күн бұрын
Agreed... on all counts!! 😀
@johnalcorn8079
Жыл бұрын
George Gershwin wrote classics from Summertime to Rhapsody in Blue.He kept changing direction in music.He died at 38yrs old,who knows what he would have written.A Genius!
@IbanezArtist85
Жыл бұрын
And Summertime was even recorded by the Zombies (and done very well by them).
@sondrasmith2691
Жыл бұрын
He WAS true genius. I agree with you.
@invisibleink2644
3 ай бұрын
And Ira, too.
@robotaverage
20 күн бұрын
If he'd lived long enough to get a Fender Strat in his hands he would have slayed like Hendrix.
@JohnCollins-th8hm
5 ай бұрын
Ive said it before, and I’ll say it again, but watching a great performer onstage completely enjoying themselves is just the best. She is so fun to watch. And hairdo is just perfect!
@Fatdog-Dakind
5 ай бұрын
...all this and she never missed a note and had the entire piece set to memory O M G !!! That is truly amazing! Piano Power! Band too!
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
5 ай бұрын
Je bent verbaasd dat iemand je in de steek laat? Ik ben geen second choice !!!!
@paladin1726
3 ай бұрын
She is as beautiful as beautiful gets. Yes, that hair when she’s playing is perfect
@davidphillips3925
Ай бұрын
Yes, it is quite evident when this lady plays the piano it is all about her.
@godly74
4 ай бұрын
100 years of Rhapsody in Blue! It's still as good as the first time I heard it.
@mitchmatthews6713
2 жыл бұрын
Those little eye flirts she does with clarinetist shows that she is truly enjoying this. She is also incredibly talented!
@TheRealBrook1968
Жыл бұрын
Flawless clarinet solo. One of my favorite pieces and is the best opening I have ever heard in a live performance.
@sosenpott5445
Жыл бұрын
Der Klarinettist ist wirklich großartig, ganz im Gegensatz zu Khatia Buniatshili. Da gibt es niemanden, der oder die großartiger ist, als Yuja Wang. Ich bin verliebt in sie. The clarinettist is really great, in contrast to Khatia Buniatshili. There is no one more magnificent than Yuja Wang. I am in love with her.
@IsraelChaffin
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Mmmmm. ^_^
@randyzaucha8745
Жыл бұрын
I abandoned clarinet to play keyboards.
@nattersting976
Жыл бұрын
If this doesn't make your neck hair quiver, you aren't alive.
@IsraelChaffin
Жыл бұрын
@@randyzaucha8745 how's that experience been?
@juanrabanales4933
3 ай бұрын
Man of culture, we meet again. 🥸
@MrWphilips
3 ай бұрын
Khatia is a superstar! Incredible musicianship and brilliant personality! She brings this masterpiece to emotional life! Wonderful!
@dontheshark
Жыл бұрын
Love watching her enjoyment of performing and her respect for the orchestra while they were playing. Her smiling throughout was wonderful.
@rickandosca8262
5 ай бұрын
YES!
@kezilkka
2 жыл бұрын
Who would not love Khatia?
@Chicken_Consumer
Жыл бұрын
A part of my soul disintegrates every time an unskipable ad interrupts this performance
@paulychannel7914
Жыл бұрын
Then pay for an ad free subscription ! ..... You won't regret that ......
@davidhankins7776
3 ай бұрын
I am a 65-year-old CPA, taking a break from doing tax returns. I was so overwhelmed by this video that I had to respond. It was mesmerizing! First of all, I am blown away by her passion. She literally absorbs and becomes the music. It is almost like watching a great athlete perform. She is so physically powerful and yet graceful. Her strength, not only in her hands is extraordinary. I recall watching Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin play guitar in the movie The Song Remains the Same, and how his hands move so incredibly fast, and the power that came out of that thin man. Again, like watching a great athlete. Khatia is similar. She attacks the piano, like she is trying to squeeze every last note and sound out of it. Yet, she is graceful as well. What a combination! Khatia reminds me of Judy Garland. Ms. Garland would just belt out her songs, singing as loudly and powerfully as possible. A literal wall of sound. It didn't matter what the song was. She gave it her complete effort. She could make the song Mary had a Little Lamb sound like the greatest piece of music ever. Khatia also has incredible focus and concentration. She is in "the zone", a place of total consciousness and mindfulness, like an out of body experience. A place where only the greats can go and experience. I think perhaps the best way to describe her performance and playing is breathtaking! She literally takes your breath away. I found this video while watching an old clip of Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire dancing to Boogie with Stu by Led Zeppelin. It is amazing watching her dance. Breathtaking! You can't take your eyes off of her. Again, like Khatia. Like Ms. Hayworth dancing among dozens of other dancers, Khatia demands full attention. The consummate entertainer. She is playing amongst some of the best musicians in the world, and yet she is the central focus. And yet as others have shared, she is humble and shares the spotlight with the orchestra. Frankly, I don't usually get this moved or touched to respond to a KZitem video. But I can see that I'm not the only one! I am so blessed to have discovered Khatia and her music. Some people are just extraordinarily talented and special. She is definitely one. Thanks for letting me share. Back to tax returns!
@derkmanley3220
21 күн бұрын
Dear D: Thank you for Your Text. You are an excellent writer! I confess. I have never had a CPA as a friend or Colleague 😅. I commend you on your ability to describe Khatia. You left out one other thing about Her: She has to be the sexiest Pianist on the Planet 🌏. If you are still with us , I. E, please respond to my Comments. Faithfully Yours, The Rev. Derrill B. Manley , Jr., Ph.D
@derkmanley3220
21 күн бұрын
Khatia! You are A Force of Nature!
@hanszimmer8801
Жыл бұрын
This is the greatest performance of Rhapsody in Blue I've ever heard. Absolutely formidable and overwhelming. I love it 💙
@thomassicard3733
Жыл бұрын
All the fast notes are SO FAST that you can't even hear them!! WONDERFUL!! Right??????
@wchambers3849
9 ай бұрын
You should listen to Leonard Bernstein’s performance. The best I’ve ever heard!
@kevinmalone3210
5 ай бұрын
@@wchambers3849I agree, Bernstein performance was unmatched. She's very good, but her style isn't on par with the way he played it.
@Dbean48
4 ай бұрын
Totally agree, Gershwin would approve of this performance..above and beyond any before..😎🇺🇸
@craighill1882
3 ай бұрын
Bernstein was an overrated pretty boy, loved by the critics and no one else.
@jasonstarr6419
2 жыл бұрын
As a performer - professional for a period of my life - I know how important it is to be recognized for my/your contribution in a performance. Her attention to the principals and conductor for quite some time prior to taking her own bow shows that she not only has tremendous talent, but also has enough humility and appreciation for others that she recognized them first. Brilliant performance, tremendous humanity.
@vibratingstring
2 жыл бұрын
She is thoughtful and a superb speaker and thinker too.
@mariodisarli1022
2 жыл бұрын
@@vibratingstring International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) 31.03.2016 ..... One may say that it is important for musicians to have a unique musical style and personality, but is it even acceptable to interpret the pieces like what Buniatishvili did? Buniatishvili is intoxicated by being virtuosic and often forgets what is behind the music. One should have faith in his or her own interpretation, but he or she should also re-think whether he or she is doing justice to the music or not. In addition, technique is much more than playing the notes accurately and rapidly. Technique refers to the total mastery of the keyboard. Yet, at times Buniatishvili’s playing lost control, no matter use of pedal, or tone production. Virtuosity does not necessarily mean speed and volume. In order to become a mature artist with individuality, Buniatishvili has to reflect on her musical approach and attitude towards music making.
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
What words, dear "bloodgrss", how many emotions! Did I step on your foot, respected businessman who sells half-naked, barefoot, busty whiskey drinkers who call themselves "pianists"?! Owning a piano keyboard is not yet an art, it is a craft! Therefore, your "pianists" attract the attention of an uneducated audience with their half-naked body, bare feet and other tricks. As their bodies age, these "pianists" will disappear! Together with them, you will disappear, dear "bloodgrss"! And we will all say goodbye to you: Ciao, baby!!! With your propaganda of the "attractive young half-naked body" you block the way to the stage for really talented people. Your place is the garbage pit of history!
@vibratingstring
2 жыл бұрын
@@georgescancan7503 heavens to betsy...BARE FEET! OH THE SCANDAL!
@vibratingstring
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariodisarli1022 she is young yet. I like what she does. I also like what Rubenstein does. The world is not flat thank goodness
@par72golfer
9 ай бұрын
Khatia is a rhapsody in and of herself. No one can play this incredible music like she does.
@davelester1985
Жыл бұрын
That piano had great tone, most wonderful sound, and when loud in upper register ....such warmth.
@johnhenke6475
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, about 10 or 11, I road my bike to downtown in Casa Grande Arizona and discovered the Salvation Army store. It was a musty smelling place with lots of old uniforms from the Second World war and all kinds of interesting junk nobody wanted anymore. There was these old 78 RPM records for ten cents each. They were only 20 years or so old at that time. I bought Rhapsody in Blue, I don't know why. I took it home and set our record player on 78 RPM and flipped over the needle and played it. I cried listening to it. It was so beautiful. I didn't know music could be so beautiful. You just made me cry again. Thank you.
@haroldbrown6630
2 жыл бұрын
Well written comment . . . I can smell the place.
@petervrabcak5597
2 жыл бұрын
The man was a genius, so is the lady!
@alexdevon2588
2 жыл бұрын
Your wonderful true story made me cry. Emotionally and sentimentally, beautiful! I adore this piece also and when Khatia plays it, she really feels it and transmits this feeling to us. The best of Worlds.
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
@@alexdevon2588 Alexander Boot Writer, critic, polemicist Sex sells - all of us short The other day I listened to something or other on KZitem, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand… [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.
@imbok
2 жыл бұрын
When I heard this performance, I ugly cried - hard. This stuff is magic.
@walterweckers771
Жыл бұрын
Artistry aside, what fascinates me in this is how Khatia enjoys the interaction with the orchestra. She's having FUN.
@johndymond1605
9 ай бұрын
This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written❤
@debracarnow9475
9 ай бұрын
I agree.
@ShockzG5
Жыл бұрын
The best clarinet solo I’ve heard of this piece. Laid back af man just how it was meant to be
@silvergirl7810
Жыл бұрын
Right? That was THE sexiest intro to this song I’ve ever heard- I was happily hanging on every note
@007JHS
2 жыл бұрын
Love that opening clarinet.
@TheMarpalm
2 жыл бұрын
This is the original kzitem.info/news/bejne/t3eruqOre5p_aKA
@007JHS
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheMarpalm Many thanks...I'd seen that too... For 1945 was it....The sound recording was great... as was the Art Deco style set and photography
@DonnaMcMasterRiver
2 жыл бұрын
That is a really tough solo! And he did it perfectly. 😍
@Kamadev888
2 жыл бұрын
Called a "glissando", the clarinetist has to stretch a single low note from the bottom of his low register up and into a high note in his highest register. takes YEARS of practice. (thank you Jennifer)
@m.f.912
2 жыл бұрын
Clarinet in the jewish music culture is a super classic. Gershwin as a jew had huge influences from hassidic jewish music from eastern europe. KLEIZMER music, if you love clarinet, may amaze you.
@user-jw5tw2gs6d
5 ай бұрын
Это чудно, великолепно! Все великолепны: и оркестр и Хатия шикарна во всём: в исполнении, в эмоциях!!!! А какое вступление !!! Как красиво!!!! Не хватает слов, чтоб выразить насколь ко это гениал ьно!!!
@bradzoltick6465
5 ай бұрын
The best performance of Rhapsody in Blue - ever! Wonderful playing. Just beautiful.
@dariuszm.d.4360
Жыл бұрын
Probably the best 17 minutes of my life.... again and again and again.
@raquelcastro457
Жыл бұрын
Super magnífico, super magistral y super hermosísimooooooo
@alexdevon2588
2 жыл бұрын
She embraces the piano, and the piano embraces her. Rapsody in Blue, as it has never been played before! What a love story.!!!
@juligrlee556
4 ай бұрын
Thank you Khatia for everything you have invested in your music. It's heavenly.
@donmcmillan261
4 ай бұрын
A class lady at the piano. As she finishes she acknowledges the Conductor, the concert mistress, the orchestra, and then she takes her bow to receive audience recognition. Such a beautiful piece of music. thanks, Khatia!
@billsimpson604
Жыл бұрын
If people are still around in a hundred thousand years, they will still be listening to that piece. And it won't be better than that performance. Gershwin attained immortality with that work. Khatia played it perfectly.
@liberalwithguns5265
Жыл бұрын
Well said sir! And so true
@timford3599
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Bill. We are of the same mind in appreciation of this wonderful performance of ALL involved.
@dxdxdkino1583
Жыл бұрын
Khatia Buniatishvili, the orchestra, the conductor, the sound team, the camerawork... Everything is on point. Beautiful performance
@larrycurrid8626
9 ай бұрын
Oh my God! Astounding. What a magnificent performance. No one writes music like this anymore.
@entelektuel.yolculuk
9 ай бұрын
Peter Gundry, Adrian Von Ziegler, Hans Zimmer, Ye Banished Privateers. Pyrolysis, Stormfrun, Burzum, Sleep Dealer, Steve Wilson, Joe Satriani, Death and Megadeth does.
@vernacular1483
8 ай бұрын
Maybe you’re just looking in the wrong places 😊
@entelektuel.yolculuk
8 ай бұрын
@@vernacular1483 :D Whole bodies of women are great and hof
@werideatdusk
3 ай бұрын
Megadeth???
@NyteNArmor
Жыл бұрын
This Gershwin piece and this performance of it has it all. It's blusey, jazzy, classical and sexy. I've watched it several times. It's simple amazing.
@johnnyxmusic
4 ай бұрын
I mean at times it’s corny, and hackneyed, and over the top and a bit cartoony… But it never stops being brilliant. I adore it. ❤❤❤
@fporretto
2 жыл бұрын
“Rhapsody in Blue” is the clearest, highest, strongest shout of joy in American music. It’s impossible to play it decently unless you love it - and Khatia Buniatishvili clearly does. This performance combines exuberance and precision in perfect proportion. Bravo!
@bruceatkinson5357
2 жыл бұрын
Quite decently!
@SchwarzeWitwe2
2 жыл бұрын
I saw a youtube comment years ago that called it a "brilliant piece of British music." Excuse me?!
@fporretto
2 жыл бұрын
@@SchwarzeWitwe2 *_HUH??_*
@SchwarzeWitwe2
2 жыл бұрын
@@fporretto some fool thought it was British, which blew my mind.
@fporretto
2 жыл бұрын
@@SchwarzeWitwe2 Well, it blew mine, too! I suppose I should just relax and chuckle over the mistake -- but can you imagine if some American were to refer to the marches of Elgar as _American_ music? It would be the War of 1812 all over again! The British would invade and burn down Washington D.C. again...though come to think of it, that doesn't sound so bad just now...😉
@Bustafunny
2 жыл бұрын
That was the jazziest, bluesiest arrangement of Rhapsody In Blue I've ever heard. Music at it's absolute finest!
@ellenmarch3095
2 жыл бұрын
Well, it was the arrangement Gershwin wrote, so... Not knocking anyone's talent, this was a great performance to be sure, but I've only ever heard one arrangement, both playing in orchestra and a piano solo version that had all parts on the same keyboard. Every note is in order, the only thing you can really play with is tempo.
@ellenmarch3095
2 жыл бұрын
Just saying Gershwin is a genius.
@MottiShneor
2 жыл бұрын
No it isn't. Sorry.
@silvergirl7810
Жыл бұрын
I agree- that intro - wow- the sexiest intro to this song I’ve ever heard!
@davidelongo6438
Жыл бұрын
Your statement clearly proves you know literally nothing about Jazz and Blues, of course. Please, do you a favour, and go to listen to the Rhapsody as conducted by Maurice Peress in 1987.
@RodrigoRaez
2 ай бұрын
One of the best versions I've ever heard. And the pianist incredible, of course.
@blissbombseventeen8114
Жыл бұрын
This retired dancer/ choreographer just wants to get back up again listening and watching the pure mastery and magic weaved by Khatia! Love the orchestra, conductor and gosh those rhythms!
@melvynemanuel4396
Жыл бұрын
Her timing is impeccable. Brings a lump to my throat. Watching her is like a beautiful, beautiful dream. I am emotionally overcome. I'm so glad I'm alive to here her play.
@warbuzzard7167
9 ай бұрын
To see such people so connected to the music is a great inspiration!
@comfyathome
7 ай бұрын
Spell-check "here"!
@melvynemanuel4396
7 ай бұрын
a typo no doubt.@@comfyathome
@DariusSarrafi
2 жыл бұрын
She totally gets jazz. It's always nice to hear someone of her caliber and passion play this piece!
@derinmenekse6774
10 ай бұрын
She is AMAZING, the orchestra is AMAZING everything is fabulous about this video ❤️🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🧿
@GT-bz9nc
5 ай бұрын
Absolutely stunning performance of a masterpiece.
@neil6477
Жыл бұрын
What I love about this performance is the apparent ease with which she plays, and still finds time to have a great deal of fun in her interactions with the orchestra. A fantastic talent and an absolute pleasure to watch.
@randysandford4033
Жыл бұрын
Not only was the music SUPERB but watching her facials as she played without a single note in front of her, just straight from the heart, is what made this particular "Rhapsody" soar above all the others. BRAVO!
@krisc.2478
7 ай бұрын
This has been my favorite musical piece for 60 years
@Qplus-tc5hh
Ай бұрын
47 years for me. Found it in the 5th grade at 10 years old.
@bruceb5481
9 ай бұрын
Perfection in every way. This performance gets better each time I watch it and hear it. But I must admit I'd watch Khatia play Jingle Bells.
@hlpimcnfsdl9715
2 жыл бұрын
khatia is everywhere. Speaking language after language. Relatively young. At the top of her game. Playing globally. The world at her feet. The comment section full of praise. Can you imagine how that must feel? And yet, watching her I get the feelng she's holding it all together. With style, with grace, and with a whole lot of passion and talent. She is a gem.
@francescolaface192
2 жыл бұрын
Katia.e' una pianista.versatile e irraggiungibile. Complimenti.
@MusicAdmirer
Жыл бұрын
I love that she's acknowledging the orchestral musicians.
@sosenpott5445
Жыл бұрын
Please listen to and watch Yuja Wang. Everything you say about Khatia applies to her.
@hlpimcnfsdl9715
Жыл бұрын
Yuja wang is a force of nature. I have watched her. She's an experience all to herself.
@petersnell3128
2 жыл бұрын
With her soul she plays. The result: an interpretation too sublime for words to fully describe. Hats off to Khatia!!👏👏👏👏
@dawnnoele
Жыл бұрын
I love love love how she thanked the conductor and the orchestra before she took her bows. That shows incredible humility and respect. This is the first time I've watched her play, but I'm definitely gonna look for more. She's incredible. 💕💕💕
@paulware4701
Жыл бұрын
Likewise!
@user-yl9fs8mj9q
10 ай бұрын
She is not humble at all
@kevinmeachem2138
10 ай бұрын
Also noted the way she listened to and showed appreciation for the clarinet solo before giving her tremendous performance. Team effort.
@leastcoast5606
7 ай бұрын
@@user-yl9fs8mj9qJerk.
@rortlieb
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the greatest compositions in history and this is the best performance I’ve heard. BRAVISSIMO!!!
@larumpole
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with Leonard Bernstein’s 1976 performance of Rhapsody in Blue at the Royal Albert Hall in 1976 (search for it on KZitem), and that was, to me, the definitive rendition - I could neither appreciate nor enjoy the slightest deviation from Bernstein’s authoritative cadence and his orchestration. Khatia Buniatishvili’s spirited and sympathetic performance now challenges my mindset; I am open to two fantastic renditions of Gershwin’s masterpiece. Bravo Ms. Buniatishvili! Gershwin would adore your interpretation and style, and Leonard would truly respect and appreciate the competition.
@semajtee
Жыл бұрын
I agree with you 100%
@katz7life
Жыл бұрын
I also have that one performance in 1979 as THE one. Then I listened to this one. My life is infinitely better and richer, with no exaggeration.
@TheMorphrick
9 ай бұрын
I still prefer the Bernstein one, but this is my second favorite
@robertcraven1771
8 ай бұрын
I’d never have thought anyone would give Bernstein a run for his money. I stand corrected.
@guybo07
7 ай бұрын
I so want to find it on KZitem & see & hear it!! 😮
@MrPetrie
2 жыл бұрын
As a Mississippi farm boy beginning college in the summer of 1959 at Memphis State University, I attended my first live classical concert and heard Leonard Pennario and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performing Rhapsody in Blue at the Overton Park Shell. What a great beginning for a lifetime of listening to live classical performances! This is a special treat to see and hear the beautiful and talented Khatia Buniatishvili performing this masterpiece.
@Griffinmc
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite high schoolteacher and I have great taste! Hey, B.C., isn’t Khatia wonderful? And I’ve loved Gershwin since I was that nerdy kid in your classes!
@mauriceedwards4298
3 ай бұрын
This song hits it's 100th birthday this year; it's still got the magic! 'Course, Khatia brings her own bit to it 🙂
@victorvillatoro7241
5 ай бұрын
This is brilliant. From the expressiveness of the orchestra, to the sound production, to the camera work. Bravo.
@TerranceTrzynka
Жыл бұрын
I can understand why she gave such enthusiastic applause to the orchestra, their communication was a beautiful thing to behold. Surely an new benchmark for the performance of Rhapsody in Blue.
@renostarman
Жыл бұрын
There are not enough superlatives or adjectives to do this preformace justice. The clarinet, the trumpets, the trombones, the viloins,the composition itself, could any of it been any better? And I haven't mentioned the pianist ==simply perfection!
@robbyrtg1147
Жыл бұрын
I cannot express how upset I am that I wasn't able to see this performance live. Don't let them release time machines! Favorite composition ever, favorite performance ever. Nothing compares to this level of musicianship. Anyone can play what's on the score but these people made it way much more than what was on the paper. Hearing them/Khatia play live is now on my bucket list!
@DavidBFreedman
6 ай бұрын
I doubt that we could see all her facial expressions sitting in the audience. This might be better?
@stephenburnage7687
4 ай бұрын
Gosh, if we had a time machine, to visit the best performances of all time....that would be a long list..
@diegoforesti4726
Жыл бұрын
Sono passati quasi cento anni dalla prima esecuzione di questo capolavoro e risentendolo oggi è più fresco e vitale che mai!!! Caposaldo del Novecento di un genio assoluto che ci ha lasciato troppo presto. Chissà cosa avrebbe potuto scrivere ancora se fosse vissuto più a lungo. Grazie George!!!!
@TTony-tu6dm
2 жыл бұрын
Possibly the greatest piece of American music ever composed. And she blows it away. Bravo!
@photo3642u
Жыл бұрын
The sensuous conversation between the piano & principle clarinet was palpable, aided & abetted by the eye contact that Ms Khatia is well known for! This performance sets the standard for others to aspire to.
@franciscojunqueira
8 ай бұрын
I'm AMAZED how she talks and swings with the orchestra.... she is INCREDIBLE and they are FANTASTIC!
@lucashankins9425
Жыл бұрын
In my opinion, the best interpretation of RIB. The tone and tempo of the conductor multiplied by the passion on the piano. The best I have ever seen. It’s a definite standing ovation.
@mariajosesanpaiosousafonse2904
6 ай бұрын
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@mariajosesanpaiosousafonse2904
6 ай бұрын
The best interpretation I have heard of RIB
@ratking_c24
2 жыл бұрын
Her playing is gorgeous but can we also mention the cinematography!! The cuts and angles make you feel as if you’re in a busy city and it fits sooo good with the music!!
@redskindan78
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! It feels like Manhattan, and I can imagine people in the 1930s, wearing tuxedos and drinking champagne.
@reddyandre
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing camera work, AND amazing EDITING.
@valerie_handani_pianist
2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more. I drown in admiration while watching this amazing music video!
@stephaniestanley8041
2 жыл бұрын
Yes the editing made this a living, breathing performance!
@bruceatkinson5357
2 жыл бұрын
Hearing is enough for me.
@josephbruggeman7549
2 жыл бұрын
She brought out things I have never noticed before such a gifted performance
@larrythegood9529
Ай бұрын
This is the piece that inspired me to play piano for the next 50 years.
@ThePiersidente
9 ай бұрын
It Is incredibile how they all seem to have a good time performing such an incredibly technically difficult masterpiece making It sound so Natural. And also She Is breathlessly beautiful...
@meteor2012able
3 ай бұрын
I am 91 yo, I first heard this in a movie when I was a teenager. I was smitten by the composition and never stopped being amazed ...😢 at how impactful it is. Great performance!!!❤❤❤
@RandysFiftySevenChevy
3 ай бұрын
United Airlines used it their advertising, and that's where I first was exposed to this beautiful tune.
@TKn-dq8kp
2 ай бұрын
I am 91 as well and saw this movie after we were liberated in The Netherlands. This movie music never left me until now, unfortunately there was no Kathia then. What an artist! What a beauty!. Great experience whenever I play it and great memories. Thank you!
@1867DJP
2 ай бұрын
What movie?
@TKn-dq8kp
2 ай бұрын
@@1867DJP As far as I can remember the name of themovie had something to do with the rhapsody but even as I remembered the music I am not sure about the movie's name, it is almost 75 years ago
@1867DJP
2 ай бұрын
@@TKn-dq8kp Maybe an American in Paris
@College-Boy
Жыл бұрын
This is the first I've ever seen of Khatia. I'll never use the term 'musician' loosely again. Exquisite!
@steveburke3923
Жыл бұрын
This is a lady with mischief in her heart! Her looks to the musicians as they answer her magnificent playing bring a smile to my face. And her playing...OHH..her playing...is as breathtaking as her beauty!
@dxwallace55
Жыл бұрын
Our band teacher in high school once told me "You like the sound of the band more than your own instrument". I think some people like the "whole" more than the "parts"
@philipdavidson8420
Жыл бұрын
Both good-looking and talented, yes. I believe the scientific term is " hot chick" 😉
@Remshmuck
Жыл бұрын
@@philipdavidson8420 super duper
@philipdavidson8420
Жыл бұрын
@@Remshmuck YESSS 😃
@lhbbhm4170
3 ай бұрын
I did excerpts from Rhapsody for my piano recital in 1978. One of my favorite pieces. This version is exquisite.
@BlueVette3832
10 ай бұрын
A beautiful masterpiece and part of Americana. I wonder what George would think now to know that 100 years after he first played this musical score it is immediately recognized and still enjoyed 100 years later.
@rossdennis5694
2 жыл бұрын
I never grew up with Classical Music - parents were into the crooners (Bing, Val Doonican, Sinatra) with one exception, my father could play Rhapsody in Blue on piano in full and occasionally did at home, despite him having no association with orchestra's or other in his working/social life since I grew up - Used to be the 'piano man'' at dance halls/clubs in his youth playing all the latest hit songs. But I did tear up, listening to Khatia's rendition of this, as it so strongly reminds me of my father who passed away in 1986. She is brilliant and it is a magical composition !
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
I shed tears reading your biography of a "true connoisseur of classical music"! But I burst out laughing. Reveal to us the secrets of your delight, what exactly is in this work, what part of it do you like. Listen to this work performed by two more oriental women, their names are Lola Astanova and Yuya Wang. I am sure that you will lose your peace forever! kzitem.info/news/bejne/p6ap0alnjamCano
@rossdennis5694
2 жыл бұрын
@@jennifer86010 I happily stand corrected on the musical genre...but the emotional resonance remains.
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
@@jennifer86010 Who is Yuja? Product PR and show industry! Absolutely ordinary pianist, pulled onto the stage by mafia structures for the sexual entertainment of snotty youths and old libertines! Her videos and interviews multiply at the rate of cholera spread! She filled the entire Internet with her "art" consisting of a half-naked body. We must finally say: enough !!! The Classical Review Wang’s powerful virtuosity stronger on flash than depth in Boston recital May 13, 2018 By Aaron Keebaugh Yuja Wang performed Friday night at Jordan Hall for the Celebrity Series. Photo: Robert Torres ... There is no doubting Yuja Wang’s technique at the keyboard. The Chinese-born pianist is capable of unleashing torrents of octave runs, and her left-hand figures supply an almost orchestral sense of depth and gravity to her sound. She clearly shapes every phrase, and her notes resonate with a ping. ... Still, there were times Friday night when one wondered if Wang only saw some of this music as just showpieces for her mesmerizing technical skill. Her selections of Rachmaninoff Preludes and Études-tableaux, though played deftly, didn’t always flower with the vocal quality so integral to the composer’s style. Wang takes a full-bodied approach to Rachmaninoff, and she renders his textures in multi-dimensional shapes. In the Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, her strong left hand figures tethered the march rhythms to the ground. The Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10 unfolded in Debussyian washes of color. In the Étude-tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 39, No. 5, Wang’s harmonies and bass lines crashed together in blistering clusters. But in each, Rachmaninoff sense of sweeping grandeur went largely unexplored. Three of Ligeti’s Etudes, which filled out the program, were similarly muscular but lacking in probing musicality. Wang’s running chromatic figures blurred into a fog in Etude No. 9, “Vertige,” and in Etude No. 1, “Désordre,” churning Bartókian rhythms propelled the music ever forward. In Etude No. 3, “Touches bloquées,” Wang’s performance needed more of the intimacy that this music requires. Though Wang played the work quickly-as marked-the Etude’s halo-like harmonics, caused by the pianist keeping some of the keys depressed with the left hand while punching out syncopated figures with the right, failed to shimmer. Ligeti incorporated difficult passages into these works not as vehicles for showboating but to create ethereal musical tapestries. And throughout, it seemed as if Wang was playing Ligeti’s notes, not Ligeti’s music. ... The program will be repeated 8 p.m. Thursday night at Carnegie Hall in New York.
@georgescancan7503
2 жыл бұрын
@@jennifer86010 Alexander Boot Writer, critic, polemicist Sex sells - all of us short The other day I listened to something or other on KZitem, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand… [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.
@carolmikofsky4976
2 жыл бұрын
@@jennifer86010 aside from jazzy passages, there is the SOUND OF THE CITY
@aneyeinthesky7193
Жыл бұрын
Fantastique!! She does not play the music, SHE IS THE MUSIC!! her hands do not touch the piano, they joyfully dance with a piano full of sounds coming out. All the musicians are outstanding and she is the soloist.
@user-mr8br7tx2f
10 ай бұрын
I am 61 years old Brazilian Professor and love this Gershwin composition! Fantastic interpretation!
@harrietnix6396
5 ай бұрын
I've been hearing this tune for about 40-50 years, and I've never heard it so elegantly performed . Khatia and the orchestra were spectacular !
@anothertime1282
Жыл бұрын
My god, she is so magnificent it makes life worth living.
@robertborlenghi7308
2 жыл бұрын
It makes one feel better about humanity that George was able to create this work, and Khatia to bring it to life. Bravo!
@bartram33
3 ай бұрын
From someone who doesn’t have a musical note in his body, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, musicians are born not made. That was breathtaking, both Khatia and the orchestra!
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