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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... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2008
Catalogue No: 88697334002
Label: Sony
Length: 56 minutes

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Tsintsadze: 6 Miniatures (Arr. T. Batiashvili for Violin & Orchestra)

Work length12:46

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Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Georgisches Kammerorchester
Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra
Lisa Batiashvili

No. 1, Mzkemsuri

Track length1:31

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No. 2, Suliko

Track length2:32

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No. 3, Lale

Track length1:51

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No. 4, Indi mindi

Track length2:08

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No. 5, Zinzkaro

Track length2:44

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No. 6, Sachidao

Track length2:00

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Work length43:45

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Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Lisa Batiashvili

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length24:37

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II. Larghetto

Track length9:05

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length10:03

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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.

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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.

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