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As Pablo Casals once did before, Khatia Buniatishvili places the human being at the centre of her art. The fundamental values handed down from the Enlightenment are not up for discussion. Were there a fire and a choice to be made between child and painting, she would not hesitate for a second. Yet, once she had pulled the child from the blaze, she would take it to the Museum of Fine Arts so that it might become a painter. No need to save "the fire" (as Cocteau replied) because it already burns her eyes, rages in her fingers and warms her heart. On the present release, she presents her first Schubert recording, which includes Schubert's great last Piano Sonata, the four popular Impromptus, and the short piece Standchen, arranged by Franz Liszt.