Paris has made a profound imprint on the artistic personality of Khatia Buniatishvili, who presents a loving tribute to the city in this playlist. “Paris has been and will always stay an important part of my dreams and my reality,” she tells Apple Music. “The music I have chosen fuses naturally with a light, profound, happy, painful, dreamy realism.” Her Paris playlist is partly a musical portrait of the great French capital, but it also features music to which she has personal and intimate connections. “Some of the musicians from the playlist I knew personally, have even been friends with. Others I would have liked to know, but their music is enough to make me feel grateful towards the generosity of their genius.” You’ll also find two tracks from Buniatishvili’s 2020 solo album Labyrinth: Serge Gainsbourg’s “La Javanaise” and Erik Satie’s mesmeric Gymnopédie No. 1. And at the heart of her Paris playlist is a touching tribute to a performer who, like Buniatishvili, displayed prodigious talent at an early age: the English cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Du Pré’s recording of Fauré’s Élégie is “sensual yet untouchable,” says Buniatishvili. “Fully living but disappearing. Momentary, eternal.” Press play for a moving ode to a city Buniatishvili will cherish forever.