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J.S. BACH
Violin Concertos, BWV 1041-1043 and BWV 1052 Kolja Blacher (violin) / Christine Pichlmeier (violin) / Lisa Stewart (violin) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "What you will hear is a performance and recording that is not unlike 'The Stokowski Sound.' Deep, rich and firm bass line, smooth strings and lushness around. The soloists are as romantic..." |
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Lisa Bassenge
A Little Loving [ Minor Music / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Lisa Bassenge is a young singer with a personal vision to bring jazz singing into the new century, using new ways of expression. Her repertoire ranges from Duke Ellington to Madonna. |
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Lisa Bassenge
Three [ Minor Music / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] This is the Lisa Bassenge Trio's third album, which was originally released in 2004. "…Less-is-more instrumentation to underpin Bassenge's smoky Badu-esque crooning."-BBC |
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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... |
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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) |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16 / Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 / Overtures Lisa Berthaud (viola) & Giovanni Radivo (violin) / Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "here [Harold] comes across as a winner...The Lyon orchestra luxuriates in Berlioz's instrumental colours, and the fillers include swaggering renditions of the Benvenuto Cellini and Roman Carnival overtures." (Financial Times) |
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HANDEL
Twenty Sonatas 'Opus 1' Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Beckett (recorder) Paul Goodmwin (oboe) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "This set gives authoritative readings, impeccable in style, dependable in text" (Gramophone) |
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J.S. BACH
Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Brown (flute) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month)BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
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VIVALDI
L'estro armonico Op 3 / 6 flute concertos Op 10 Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) / The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock [ DG Double / 2 CD - released 4/May/2005 ] PINNOCK'S VIVALDI: Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert's 1980s digital recordings of Vivaldi remain a highlight of the Archiv catalogue, offering benchmark interpretations of this ever-popular composer, whose rhythmic energy and plangent lyricisml... |
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W.A. MOZART
Flute Quartets Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) with Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) Tom Dunn (viola) and Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) [ Avie / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "Delectable - if you want to forget the cares of the 21st century for an hour or so, this may be the answer." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
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ARTHUR FARWELL
Arthur Farwell: Piano Music, Volume 3 Lisa Cheryl Thomas (piano) [ Toccata / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] "Part of the 'Indianists' movement, Arthur Farwell tried to meld American Indian and Western music. There's a variety of styles, though the playing sometimes loses focus" BBC Music |
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GORDON GETTY
The White Election - A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Emily Dickinson Lisa Delan (soprano) / Fritz Steinegger (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] This is a song cycle for soprano and piano by a living American composer (born 1933) on poems by Emily Dickinson. It is assumed that Emily Dickinson may have improvised accompaniments for her poems, but no proof exists. Gordon Getty has tried to... |
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COPLAND / GETTY / HEGGIE / TILSON THOMAS
A Certain Slant Of Light Lisa Delan (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] The exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson's poetry has attracted many composers. A Certain Slant of Light features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and... |
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GORDON GETTY
Joan and the Bells (with Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Suite No 2) Lisa Delan (soprano) Vladimir Chernov (baritone) / Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Russian National Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "A powerful work given a refreshingly unpretentious performance." Gramophone (September 2003) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Four Last Songs / Capriccio: Final Scene / Arabella (excerpts) Lisa Della Casa (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic / Karl Bohm etc. [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Acclaimed as one of her generation's finest interpreters of Richard Strauss (the composer himself identified her as his ideal Arabella), the Swiss soprano Lisa della Casa was blessed with a seemingly effortless, shimmeringly beautiful voice as well... |