Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Khatia Buniatishvili / Jonathan Nott

In All the Colours of Freedom

Brahms and Buniatishvili – this is a truly heavenly combination. The openness and timelessness already inherent in the broad arcs of Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 meet, in Khatia Buniatishvili, an interpreter who regards freedom as the highest good: »You are as if in a trance, alone with the piano, simply following the music and suddenly feeling a great harmony within yourself. The freedom of interpretation goes hand in hand with freedom from oneself,« as she once described her ideal state. Artist and private individual, orchestra and soloist, score and sound thus merge into an inseparable whole. This can succeed when one understands one’s musical partners as intuitively as the Paris-based pianist does with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which in the second half of the concert is free to unleash the full palette of orchestral color with Debussy’s »Images« for orchestra with its famous central movement, »Ibéria«.