As You Like It Nino Gvetadze

• Nodar Gabunia (1933 - 2000): From a Pupil's Diary:
• 1 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 1. Morning 01:49
• 2 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 2. On the Way to School 01:13
• 3 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 3. School Bell 01:12
• 4 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 4. History Lesson 02:39
• 5 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 5. Arithmetics Lesson 00:44
• 6 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 6. Singing Lesson 01:27
• 7 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 7. Physics Lesson 02:56
• 8 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 8. On the Way Home 00:45
• 9 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 9. In the Yard (On Horseback) 00:50
• 10 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 10. Watching TV 01:39
• 11 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 11. Lullaby 01:26
• 12 Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary: 12. Dream 01:45
• Children's Pieces for Grown-Ups:
• 13 Gabunia: Children's Pieces for Grown-Ups: No 1. Crooning to the Handbell 02:33
• 14 Gabunia: Children's Pieces for Grown-Ups: No 8. Waltz 03:30
• Dedication:
• 15 Gabunia: Dedication 03:27
• 33 Miniatures:
• 16 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 1 Theme from King Lear 01:06
• 17 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 2 Valse from The Eccentrics 01:28
• 18 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 3 Theme from When Almonds Blossomed 02:20
• 19 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 5 Theme from As You Like It 01:42
• 20 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 9 Theme from Mother Courage And Her Children 00:46
• 21 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 10 Main theme from Twelfth Night 01:36
• 22 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 11 Theme from The Blue Mountains 01:23
• 23 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 12 Theme from Waiting for Godot 01:28
• 24 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 13 Rag-Time from Richard lll 01:21
• 25 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 14 Theme from White Stones 01:01
• 26 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 15 Theme from The Caucasian Chalk Circle 01:45
• 27 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 16 Theme from The Role For A Beginner 00:52
• 28 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 17 Valse from Richard lll 01:10
• 29 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 22 Valse from Don t Grieve 01:08
• 30 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 23 Theme from Bear's Kiss 01:19
• 31 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 24 Main theme from Kin-Dza-Dza 02:16
• 32 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 25 Main theme from Hamlet 02:14
• 33 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 26 Song from Earth, This is Your Son 01:25
• 34 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 28 Main theme from Cinema 00:45
• 35 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 30 Valse from The Role For A Beginner 01:06
• 36 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 31 Main theme from Sunny Night 01:54
• 37 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 32 Theme from Mother Courage And Her Children 01:22
• 38 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 33 Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Instead of Tango) 03:08
• 39 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures: No. 8 Theme from Mimino'' (Yellow Leaves) 02:53
• Total Runtime 01:05:23

Info for As You Like It

Some music stays with you for a lifetime — not just in your memory, but in your hands, your ears, your way of feeling the world. For me, that music began in Tbilisi, Georgia, where I was born and raised, and where these sounds first took root. The journey of this album begins with the music of Nodar Gabunia — a composer, mentor, and teacher who shaped my early musical voice. His musical language is deeply personal, yet unmistakably his — full of clarity, warmth, wisdom, wit, and beauty. The second half of the album gently shifts into the sound world of Giya Kancheli — a close friend of Gabunia’s. While internationally renowned for his symphonic works, at home Kancheli’s music for theatre and film is woven into the fabric of daily life. His melodies drift through the air — subtle, poetic, melancholic, and full of unspoken emotion. Recording this album felt less like performing and more like remembering. The music flowed naturally, as if something long held inside was finally f inding its voice. It felt like writing a diary in sound — one filled with affection, gratitude and quiet moments of awe. (Nino Gvetadze)

"Her interpretation respects this expressive fragility, enhances it, and with naturalness and absolute reverence traces a sound bridge between the two creative voices which, despite their distinct and personal styles, converge in the same poetics of sound — a poetics shaped by stillness, open spaces, and emotions revealed through calm, with a serene beauty impossible to explain in words." (Sonograma)

Nino Gvetadze, piano

Nino Gvetadze
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Nino Gvetadze studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn.

Nino received various awards. The most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She received the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2010.

Nino Gvetadze has performed with many outstanding conductors such as Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Tabachnik, John Axelrod and Jaap van Zweden and with the Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the Rheinische Philharmonie amongst others. She went on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, . Kammerakademie Potsdam and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Nino has given various recitals all over the world, among those in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus), Bayreuth, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival, Bunka-kaikan Hall Tokyo and twice at the Festival Piano aux Jacobins (Toulouse).

The repertoire of Nino stretches from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov and further to contemporary music. Most of the selected pieces are very virtuoso and demanding, but in her interpretation Nino always brings forward its poetry and characteristic colors. The St. Gallen Tagblat wrote: “absolutely thrilling” about her performance of Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto and: “Poetry and Phantasy dominated indefatigably over the pure brilliance.”

Concertonet : “Schubert’s Wanderer Fantaisie was expressed with a total and admirable knowledge of the architecture of the score, enthralling with an outstanding feeling for timbre and colour.”

Nino recorded 3 solo CDs: Piano works by Mussorgsky (Brilliant Classics), Rachmaninoff Preludes op 23 and op 32 (Etcetera) and “Widmung” with Liszt piano works (Orchid Classics). Her recordings and interviews are often broadcasted on European radio and TV Stations.

Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.

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