Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili (violin and direction)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Georgian Chamber Orchestra
…this recording can unquestionably be ranked among the finest ever made. What is particularly remarkable about Batiashvili's performance is its capacity to make one listen afresh to such over-familiar...
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili (violin and direction)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Georgian Chamber Orchestra
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…this recording can unquestionably be ranked among the finest ever made. What is particularly remarkable about Batiashvili's performance is its capacity to make one listen afresh to such over-familiar...
About
Hailed as one of the most exciting musicians of her generation: “Dazzling…” (The Daily Telegraph); “…lavish virtuosity” (The Financial Times); her eagerly-awaited follow-up sees Batiashvili, internationally regarded as a superb interpreter of the classical repertoire and a decided champion of new music, in another adventurous collaboration with her trademark twist of unusual pairings: this time Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen coupled with Miniatures by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925-1991) featuring the Georgian Chamber Orchestra.
Most unusually, both orchestras are directed by Ms Batiashvili herself.
Ms Batiashvili was recently featured in The Guardian as one of the “four young stars of classical music you need to hear”. Now, in her mid-20s, she continues to make an indelible impression on the international music scene with stunning successes throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Pacific-Rim territories.
Contents and tracklist
- Georgisches Kammerorchester, Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
- Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra
- Lisa Batiashvili
- Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
- The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Lisa Batiashvili
Awards and reviews
October 2008
…this recording can unquestionably be ranked among the finest ever made. What is particularly remarkable about Batiashvili's performance is its capacity to make one listen afresh to such over-familiar music. Batiashvili plays… with a natural fluidity of line and uses her superb musical instincts, allowing the music its moments of repose.
Awards Issue 2008
Batiashvili's principal virtues are her agility and lightness, her chaste playing of the Larghetto's second subject and the enchanting buoyancy of the finale… …a fine performance if not absolutely the best, but I would suspect that the main draw on this CD will be the six orchestrated Miniatures by fellow Georgian Sulkhan Tsintsadze, whose tunefully exotic dance movements have an instant appeal and draw the very best from Batiashvili and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra.
29th August 2008
Lisa Batiashvili is such a vital and magnetic live performer, a violinist with enormous promise and the inquiring mind with which to fulfil it, that it's a surprise and a disappointment to find her account of the Beethoven concerto so unremarkable. Not that violin playing of such control and purpose can ever be entirely run of the mill; just that something more distinctive and fresh was expected.
