Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. Khatia Buniatishvili's Legendary Performance | Full Concerto

Nov 6, 2025 | Rachmaninoff didn't write this concerto. He survived it. After two years of creative paralysis following a catastrophic premiere, Sergei Rachmaninoff sat down with a hypnotherapist and came back with the most emotionally devastating piano concerto ever written.

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor is not a performance. It is a confession — of fear, of silence, of the terror of failing in public, and the savage joy of returning. Khatia Buniatishvili plays it as if she knows exactly what that feels like.

Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda with the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino, this performance is one of the most visceral and uncompromising interpretations of the Rach 2 in recent memory. Buniatishvili doesn't revere this music. She inhabits it.