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Artist Impressions: Episode 3 – Mariam Batsashvili | Yamaha Music

In this third episode of our ‘Artist Impressions’ series, we hear from Mariam Batsashvili, Yamaha Artist and first prize winner of the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Mariam shares her personal journey with CFX and describes the teamwork of pianist and piano working as one. Presenting the next generation CFX Concert Grand – shaped by artists for artists. To find out more about the new Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano visit: https://yamaha.io/3yiItep For more info visit: http://europe.yamaha.com

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3 days ago

- For me, music is magic making tool and how CFX can make this, sometimes it feels like I'm hearing something from heaven. Okay. I'm doing something for it. So it's not only the piano that is working on it, but somehow it's the teamwork of a pianist and piano together. In 2014, I took part in Liszt competition in Utrecht in the Netherlands, and I was given choice of eight different grand pianos from different manufacturers, and two of them were from Yamaha, CFX, both of them. And it took me abou
t one minute or two minutes to decide that I would love to play on this CFX because I simply tried the reaction of the precision for the very fast notes, the repetitions. And then I tried something for this enormous connection between the notes, and then I realised that it can really do what I wanted to do. So obviously I chose it. And since then I know exactly what to expect when I have CFX because it is indeed reacting to my touch and to my wishes. CFX can produce very warm tone. So when I pla
y something romantic or I need the phrases to sound very round and rich, it can right away produce this very kind in a sense and, and warm sound. But what I personally find terrific about this piano is that it can do the exact opposite. So you can play, for example, Totentanz of Franz Liszt, which is about death, dancing. And it's like you get scared and you get, you don't understand how can this sound be produced on the very same piano where before we were speaking about heaven, angels, and all
the loving things. So those contrasts that the piano has to offer through its mechanics, through its colours and the palette. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

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