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Lisa Batiashvili’s debut album for DG, Echoes of Time, is a matter of the heart - Lisa focuses her programme on composers whose lives and work have been heavily influenced by the political happenings in former Soviet Union. Inspired by personal experience, Lisa herself went into German exile with her family during the political upheaval in Georgia in 1991.
The programme spans the whole of the 20th century, classics by Shostakovich ("Waltz from the Doll’s Dances") and Rachmaninov’s ever popular "Vocalise" are combined with Georgian composer, Giya Kancheli’s "V and V", and Estonian, Arvo Pärt’s "Spiegel im Spiegel", written shortly before the composer went into exile.
For Pärt’s "Spiegel im Spiegel" and Rachmaninov’s "Vocalise" Lisa teams up with one of DG’s most distinctive pianists, Hélène Grimaud. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Symphonieorchester des bayerischen Rundfunks.
The programme spans the whole of the 20th century, classics by Shostakovich ("Waltz from the Doll’s Dances") and Rachmaninov’s ever popular "Vocalise" are combined with Georgian composer, Giya Kancheli’s "V and V", and Estonian, Arvo Pärt’s "Spiegel im Spiegel", written shortly before the composer went into exile.
For Pärt’s "Spiegel im Spiegel" and Rachmaninov’s "Vocalise" Lisa teams up with one of DG’s most distinctive pianists, Hélène Grimaud. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Symphonieorchester des bayerischen Rundfunks.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the best performances of the Shostakovich concerto I've heard beautifully recorded. Lisa Batiashvili is a brilliant violinist and she gives an almost flawless account of this technically demanding concerto. Highly recommended.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Lisa Batiashvili's native Georgia straddles East and West, historically tossed between Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Ottoman and Russian empires. This seems relevant to Batiashvilli's quite exceptional performances. She gives an oriental colour and a kind of mystical yearning to these pieces. Her Shostakovich is inspired by her encounters with Kanchelli, Part and Gubaidulina's sacrificial sound world. These composers from the borderlands of the former USSR inform her reading of the Russian Shostakovich and bring out the oriental aspect of his work. This is apparent in her seeming suspension of time in a work that has so may moments of forward impetus. What a pity that DG should market her as one more sexy woman string player, featuring her photo and name while not even mentioning the composers on the front of the box. That said, Batiashvilli gives a new edge to the term 'soloist' as her violin evokes a sense of lonely desolation that makes this a unique interpretation.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Georgian violonist Batiashvilli is incredible. Shostakovich's Violin Concerto is performed most brilliantly. I haven't heard much about Giya Kancheli who had shared the same destiny with Shostakovich. I was able to get an opinion about Kancheli. I am expecting more brilliant albums from Lisa Batiashvilli.
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