Khatia Buniatishvili, “Franz Liszt” (Sony Classical)

On this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, we have an album calculated to make a splash. And why not? Liszt was an innovator, a Romantic right up there with Chopin, Berlioz, Schubert and Wagner, but also perhaps the world’s first Rock Star. Ken Russell didn’t title his bio-pic “Lisztomania” for nothing. Khatia Buniatishvili, a 24-year-old from Tbilisi, is a self-styled Romantic as well, evidenced here by her thematic selection and arrangement of mat