Presenting her tenth album on Sony Classical, Khatia Buniatishvili joins an iconic orchestra in performances of two cherished piano concertos by Mozart.

After a string of releases on Sony Classical that have redefined the parameters of the classical recital album, Khatia Buniatishvili is returning to tradition with a recording of two of Mozart’s most sublime late piano concertos.

In his Piano Concertos nos 20 and 23, Mozart takes the genre of the concerto to new heights of sophistication and communicative power. The works come from the cherished crop of late piano concertos that are among the jewels of Mozart’s output and have long formed touchstone works for great pianists and recording artists.

Mozart’s music, says Buniatishvili, carries ‘a simplicity that makes you lost before finding yourself.’ She is joined on her recording by an orchestra with a near-unrivalled pedigree in Mozart recording, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Buniatishvili recorded her album at Air Studios in London with the famed Academy of St Martin in the Fields – the orchestra whose recordings of operas, symphonies and concertos by Mozart under its music director Sir Neville Marriner became classics and which recorded the 13 Gold Disc-winning soundtrack to the iconic film Amadeus.

Khatia Buniatishvili is one of classical music’s true one-offs, a pianist with almost unequalled delicacy of touch and a film-director’s ear for focus-pulling and storytelling. She was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1987 and studied at the University of the Arts in Vienna.

A former BBC New Generation Artist and protégé of Martha Argerich, Buniatishvili is a preferred collaborator of top-drawer musicians including Renaud Capuçon, Zubin Mehta, Paavo Järvi and Gidon Kremer – and has recorded with all four. She signed to Sony Classical in 2010 and has now released ten albums on the label – including the concept albums Motherland and Labyrinth – all of which have ignited conversations on interpretation, presentation and repertoire.