VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
BEDRICH SMETANA / ANTONIN DVORAK
Waldbühne - Czech Night (Recorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2016) BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Oct/2016 ] What kind of music could be better suited for the Berliner Philharmoniker's legendary annual Waldbühne concert than Czech music? |
BRAHMS / SCHULHOFF / TCHAIKOVSKY / LISZT
Brahms: Double Concerto / Liszt: Liszt: Les Préludes BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Gautier Capuçon (cello), Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present a sophisticated concert programme of three great composers: Johannes Brahms, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Franz Liszt. |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
Lisa Batiashvili
Beethoven: Violin Concerto [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto (with Clara Schumann - Violin Sonatas) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann, with Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 24/Jan/2013 ] "Batiashvili can always justify revisiting a popular work such as the Brahms Violin Concerto. Her reading of this tough masterpiece is more lyrical than combative, but there is a tensile quality throughout. Speeds are well judged and the Dresden band... |
Lisa Batiashvili
Sibelius/Lindberg:violin Concs [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Chamber Music Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Harrison Birtwistle [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2014 ] There are a dozen of Niedecker's poems here to which Birtwistle responds with great refinement...the three instrumentalists, quite closely recorded, are in a class any composer would die for. (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Contemporary) |
CHAPLIN / BACH / LEGRAND / MORRICONE / PIAZZOLLA / etc
Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Georgia Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Nikoloz Rachveli [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] In her new project, City Lights, Lisa Batiashvili gathers all the places and memories that have been important in her life and career together with some of the world's most beautiful music. |
FRANCK / SZYMANOWSKI / CHAUSSON / DEBUSSY
Lisa Batiashvili - Secret Love Letters Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Giorgi Gigashvili (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] "Batiashvili favours an interpretative line that is easier to experience than to describe, not self-effacing so much as intimate, flexible, unhurried.." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2022) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / J. S. BACH / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Brahms, Bach, Schubert: Sonatas Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Milana Chernyavska (piano) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 18/Feb/2018 ] "Among the young musicians I have listened to throughout my life, Lisa Batiashvili is one of the most spectacular … If there is a more accomplished violinist today I still have to hear her (or him)," wrote the great pianist Alfred Brendel in 2006,... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Songs (arr piano and violin) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "I have to hand it to Yannick Nezet-Seguin: this is without question one of the finest Pathetiques to have come my way in the last 30 or so years. Proof of credentials appears fairly early on." (Gramophone) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Visions of Prokofiev Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "These are technically immaculate, thoughtful performances, handsomely recorded" The Arts Desk |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / JEAN SIBELIUS
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "Every familiar phrase somehow manages to sound both authoritative and newly discovered...a delight from start to finish." Gramophone Magazine Disc of the Month - January 2017 |
KANCHELI / PART / RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Echoes of Time Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "few if any [recordings of the Shostakovich] are finer than this one...Batiashvili's reflective, almost weightless approach in the opening Nocturne...is rendered more distinctive by the resonant acoustic of the empty Herkulessaal." (Recording of the... |
J. S. BACH
Lisa Batiashvili: Bach Lisa Batiashvili (violin) with Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & François Leleux (oboe) / Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Radoslaw Szulc [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] "Batiashvili's violin is seductive and the spirit lively - a pleasing, middle-of-the-road selection." (Financial Times) |
J. S. BACH
Peaceful Bach Martha Argerich, Avi Avital, Lisa Batiashvili, Rafal Blechacz, Helene Grimaud, Murray Perahia, Hilary Hahn, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2019 ] A 2CD album of Bach's most relaxing melodies played by legendary artists and upcoming stars like Murray Perahia, Giuliano Carmignola, Rafal Blechacz, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, etc |
NICOLAS BACRI
Sturm und Drang Sharon Bezaly (flute) François Leleux (oboe) Riitta Pesola (cello) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] This highly accessible, colourful and melodic music is here interpreted by the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Jean-Jacques Kantorow, a team whose previous recordings on BIS have been enthusiastically received by the reviewers. A disc of works by... |
BACH / BRAHMS / DVORAK / LUTOSLAWSKI / MOZART / etc
Verbier Festival - The 25th Anniversary Concert (rec 2018) Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova, Vilde Frang, Ilya Gringolts, Leonidas Kavakos, etc / Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] The Verbier Festival is one of classical music's greatest events. In celebration of the festival's 25th anniversary, this unique concert brings together 36 classical stars in an unprecedented evening of ingenious programming and captivating... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms; Double Concerto / works by Tchaikovsky & Liszt Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] "The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish." Gramophone |