Khatia Buniatishvili SCHUBERT

There is a certain femininity and sensitivity in Schubert’s works, as well as an ability to wait and endure. This femininity and heightened sensitivity are destined to die. Yet this suicide is to be found at such a profound depth, stifled, with no outward expression of the tragedy of loss, that it remains invisible and inaudible in the major mode, like a peaceful and carefree river which ows without any counter-movement, taking with it a white night dress that was once worn and has since been abandoned. 

In an age where everything seems accessible and diversity a given, the profound depth in shades and singularities, the existence of contrasts and contradictions in a human being seem strangely difficult to perceive. This is not a tragedy but rather a dilemma. A strong woman is difficult to accept and finds it difficult to accept herself because of the vulnerability that she reveals. Nevertheless, the strength of a woman is her complexity. While the ability to wait is considered to be a weakness of a romantic nature, it also means bearing pain; this enables her to give birth, create, remain constant to and protective of her children, faithful to her ideas, to her loves. 

In Schubert’s music, it is this femininity that sings, rising out from the greatest of vulnerability, love, and which is transformed into a greater strength, to act, create and exist. I dedicate this album to this part that exists in me and in other women and men, that I tried for a long time to let drift away. (Khatia Buniatishvili)

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