Mariam Batsashvili

Mariam Batsashvili – Schubert / Arr. Liszt: Ständchen, Serenade (After Schubert’s ‘Schwanengesang’ D. 957) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 18:44 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Mariam Batsashvili presents a collection of singles for piano featuring the Liszt-arranged “Ständchen, Serenade”. The offering heralds Batsashvili’s upcoming Romantic Piano Masters, primarily devoted to evocative, technically formidable piano transcriptions of opera, song and organ music.
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Mariam Batsashvili – Romantic Piano Masters (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:23 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

“The Georgian-born pianist leaves nothing to be desired with the generous warmth of her interpretations,” wrote the music magazine Gramophone about Mariam Batsashvili’s reading of works by Chopin and Liszt. The recording of Romantic Piano Masters also revolves entirely around Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.
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Mariam Batsashvili – Chopin & Liszt: Piano Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:53 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

On her first Warner Classics album pianist Mariam Batsashvili combines solo works by Franz Liszt – a figure of special significance for her – and his contemporary Frédéric Chopin. She left her native Georgia to study at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar and gained international recognition in 2014 when she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Chopin was just a year older than Liszt and the two became good friends in Paris. The two pianist-composers are, as Batsashvili explains, “very, very different in the way they express themselves, but I can hear in their music that they respected each other greatly.”

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