Lisa Batiashvili
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili has developed a highly successful career, both as a soloist appearing with the world's leading orchestras and as a chamber player performing in duos or larger groups. A critically lauded recording artist, her vast repertory encompasses works from J.S. Bach and Beethoven to Prokofiev and Shostakovich and more. Batiashvili has given the world premieres of several important works, including the Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto, written specifically for her, which she recorded to great acclaim. Batiashvili has appeared with major orchestras from around the world and with such artists as pianists Hélène Grimaud and Till Fellner, violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Isabelle Faust, cellist Adrian Brendel, and oboist François Leleux, who is also her husband. Lisa (Elizabeth) Batiashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1979. Her father was a violinist and her mother a pianist. Before age three, Batiashvili was playing a miniature violin. She also studied piano in her childhood. From age eight, she studied music at a Tbilisi music school for gifted children. Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, her family immigrated to Munich, Germany, when she was 11. Batiashvili studied music at the Hamburg Musikhochschule with Mark Lubotsky and at the Munich Musikhochschule with Ana Chumachenco. At 16, Batiashvili captured second prize at the Helsinki-based Sibelius Competition. From 1999 to 2001, she was a BBC New Generation Artist, debuting at the 2000 BBC Proms. In 2001, Batiashvili appeared in the recorded premiere of the Olli Mustonen Concerto for three violins, with fellow violinists Jaakko Kuusisto and Pekka Kuusisto, on the Ondine label. Over the next few years, her career blossomed with major concert dates across Europe and the U.S. In August 2006, she premiered the Lindberg Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall, with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Louis Langrée conducting. Batiashvili has recorded for several labels, including EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and EuroArts. She signed a recording contract with Sony in 2007 and went on to record the Beethoven Violin Concerto and a disc of works by Mozart and Britten for that label. In 2008, Batiashvili gave the premiere in London of the Kancheli double concerto Broken Chant, for violin, oboe, and orchestra, with Leleux and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her later recordings have included the 2011 Echoes of Time, a Deutsche Grammophon release that includes works by Shostakovich, Kancheli, Rachmaninov, and Pärt. She recorded an album of chamber music by Harrison Birtwistle for ECM in 2013, with a group that included cellist Adrian Brendel. Her other recordings in the 2010s, favoring quality over quantity, have featured careful readings of major repertory items: she recorded the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with the Staatskapelle Dresden (of which she was "Kapell-Virtuosin") in 2014, and 2017 saw a Deutsche Grammophon release of the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with the old lion Daniel Barenboim at the helm of the Berlin Staatskapelle. In 2020, Batiashvili released the album City Lights, featuring music representing important cities from her life. She has received several major awards in her career, including an Opus Klassik, Choc de l’année, and MIDEM Classical. Musical America named her Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015.© Robert Cummings & James Manheim /TiVo Read more
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili has developed a highly successful career, both as a soloist appearing with the world's leading orchestras and as a chamber player performing in duos or larger groups. A critically lauded recording artist, her vast repertory encompasses works from J.S. Bach and Beethoven to Prokofiev and Shostakovich and more. Batiashvili has given the world premieres of several important works, including the Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto, written specifically for her, which she recorded to great acclaim. Batiashvili has appeared with major orchestras from around the world and with such artists as pianists Hélène Grimaud and Till Fellner, violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Isabelle Faust, cellist Adrian Brendel, and oboist François Leleux, who is also her husband.
Lisa (Elizabeth) Batiashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1979. Her father was a violinist and her mother a pianist. Before age three, Batiashvili was playing a miniature violin. She also studied piano in her childhood. From age eight, she studied music at a Tbilisi music school for gifted children. Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, her family immigrated to Munich, Germany, when she was 11. Batiashvili studied music at the Hamburg Musikhochschule with Mark Lubotsky and at the Munich Musikhochschule with Ana Chumachenco. At 16, Batiashvili captured second prize at the Helsinki-based Sibelius Competition. From 1999 to 2001, she was a BBC New Generation Artist, debuting at the 2000 BBC Proms. In 2001, Batiashvili appeared in the recorded premiere of the Olli Mustonen Concerto for three violins, with fellow violinists Jaakko Kuusisto and Pekka Kuusisto, on the Ondine label. Over the next few years, her career blossomed with major concert dates across Europe and the U.S. In August 2006, she premiered the Lindberg Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall, with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Louis Langrée conducting.
Batiashvili has recorded for several labels, including EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and EuroArts. She signed a recording contract with Sony in 2007 and went on to record the Beethoven Violin Concerto and a disc of works by Mozart and Britten for that label. In 2008, Batiashvili gave the premiere in London of the Kancheli double concerto Broken Chant, for violin, oboe, and orchestra, with Leleux and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her later recordings have included the 2011 Echoes of Time, a Deutsche Grammophon release that includes works by Shostakovich, Kancheli, Rachmaninov, and Pärt. She recorded an album of chamber music by Harrison Birtwistle for ECM in 2013, with a group that included cellist Adrian Brendel. Her other recordings in the 2010s, favoring quality over quantity, have featured careful readings of major repertory items: she recorded the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with the Staatskapelle Dresden (of which she was "Kapell-Virtuosin") in 2014, and 2017 saw a Deutsche Grammophon release of the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with the old lion Daniel Barenboim at the helm of the Berlin Staatskapelle. In 2020, Batiashvili released the album City Lights, featuring music representing important cities from her life.
She has received several major awards in her career, including an Opus Klassik, Choc de l’année, and MIDEM Classical. Musical America named her Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015.
© Robert Cummings & James Manheim /TiVo
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Tchaikovsky, Sibelius : Violin Concertos
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Nov 4, 2016
Gramophone AwardGramophone Record of the Month5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikThe Georgian-German violinist Lisa Batiashvili has quietly reached the point of being one of the cognoscenti's players in mainstream repertory, with a ...
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Visions of Prokofiev
Lisa Batiashvili
Symphonic Music - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Feb 2, 2018
Prise de Son d'Exception5 de DiapasonIn addition to Prokofiev’s two violin concertos – whose ample discography is brilliantly enriched by this interpretation of Georgian violinist Lisa Ba ...
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Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2013
Gramophone Editor's ChoiceHi-Res AudioGeorgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili (whose name appears in the graphics in Georgia's uniquely beautiful script) is a worthy avatar of the great Russia ...
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City Lights
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jun 5, 2020
Thematic albums have proven popular with many classical musicians in a stifling world filled with intimidating masterpieces. Here, violinist Lisa Bati ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Violin Concertos - Sonatas...
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2014
4 étoiles Classica5 de DiapasonWhile violinist Lisa Batiashvili has recorded mostly Romantic and modernist music, she has chosen to perform works by J.S. Bach for her third album on ...
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Desafinado (Version for Violin, Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar and Orchestra) (RIO DE JANEIRO)
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Feb 11, 2022
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Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by ECM New Series on Apr 4, 2014
Hi-Res AudioWhile Harrison Birtwistle has long been established as a composer of major works for the theater, he has maintained a connection to the humbler sphere ...
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Secret Love Letters
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - To be released on Aug 19, 2022 by Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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Khorumi (Dance for Freedom)
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Mar 25, 2022
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 61 - Tsintsadze: Miniatures
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on Aug 15, 2008
While older listeners may not be moved to cast aside their favorite recordings of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, younger listeners may be moved to embra ...
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Brahms, Bach & Schubert: Violin Works
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Feb 16, 2001
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Tchaikovsky, Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Nov 4, 2016
The Georgian-German violinist Lisa Batiashvili has quietly reached the point of being one of the cognoscenti's players in mainstream repertory, with a ...
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Echoes of Time (Oeuvres de Chostakovitch, Kancheli, Pärt)
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2011
5 de DiapasonGramophone Record of the MonthAs a debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon, Lisa Batiashvili's Echoes of Time works reasonably well because it demonstrates a seriousness of purpose ...
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Bach
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2014
While violinist Lisa Batiashvili has recorded mostly Romantic and modernist music, she has chosen to perform works by J.S. Bach for her third album on ...
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City Lights
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jun 5, 2020
Thematic albums have proven popular with many classical musicians in a stifling world filled with intimidating masterpieces. Here, violinist Lisa Bati ...
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Visions Of Prokofiev
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Feb 2, 2018
In addition to Prokofiev’s two violin concertos – whose ample discography is brilliantly enriched by this interpretation of Georgian violi ...
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Sibelius & Lindberg: Violin Concertos
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on Aug 9, 2007
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 61 - Tsintsadze: Miniatures
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on Aug 15, 2008
While older listeners may not be moved to cast aside their favorite recordings of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, younger listeners may be moved to embra ...
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by ECM New Series on Apr 4, 2014
While Harrison Birtwistle has long been established as a composer of major works for the theater, he has maintained a connection to the humbler sphere ...
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Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2013
Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili (whose name appears in the graphics in Georgia's uniquely beautiful script) is a worthy avatar of the great Russia ...
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Secret Love Letters
Lisa Batiashvili
Classical - To be released on Aug 19, 2022 by Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo