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| 1. 1. Nocturne (Moderato) |
| 2. 2. Scherzo (Allegro) |
| 3. 3. Passacaglia (Andante) |
| 4. 4. Burlesque (Allegro con brio - Presto) |
| 5. V & V |
| 6. Lyric Waltz |
| 7. Spiegel im Spiegel - Lisa Batiashvili, Hélène Grimaud |
| 8. Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 - Lisa Batiashvili, Hélène Grimaud |
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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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CD Bayerische Rundfunk S.O./Esa-Pekka Salonen/Batiashvili
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intensely beautiful performance of Shostakovich Concerto & the finest 'Spiegel im Spiegel'
1 July 2012
By Scriabinmahler
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I don't know very much about this violinist, but this performance of Shostakovich's 1st Violin Concerto is the most intensely felt and, at the same time, the most beautiful account I've ever come across since I listened to David Oistrakh's recordings. She brings out the inner angst and wistful lyricism of the music with her deeply expressive tone finely balanced with her intellectual focus.
Coupled with the hauntingly evocative music including Giya Kancheli's 'V&V' and the inspired performance of Arvo Pärt's 'Spiegel im Spiegel' (played slower than Tasmin Little's version and finer than Gil Shaham's account), this is well worth adding to your library.
Coupled with the hauntingly evocative music including Giya Kancheli's 'V&V' and the inspired performance of Arvo Pärt's 'Spiegel im Spiegel' (played slower than Tasmin Little's version and finer than Gil Shaham's account), this is well worth adding to your library.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Ali Tigrel
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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.
7 of 9 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.
By Edward
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Lisa Batiashvili is awseome! - very interesting selection of music on this CD - the Shostakovich Concerto is amazing and it's always good to hear Spiegel im Spiegel
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Alp Olcay
Format:Audio CD
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.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By M. J. Nelson
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This recording has a special attraction for me since I had the great pleasure of hearing Lisa Batiashvili play the Concerto at this year's Promenade Concerts before a packed and enthusiastic audience. She also played, as an encore, one of the other interesting pieces on the disc - the delightful Lyrical Waltz, also by Shostakovich. The fact that this item was named Recording of the Month by the Gramophone magazine (March 2011) rather confirms that no more recommendation is necessary. The absolutely beautiful tone Batiashvili extracts from her instrument (here the 1727 Venus Stradivarius) is just one facet of her playing. The Concerto itself may, indeed, be the finest of the composer's works in this form, its persuasive combination of Nocturne, Scherzo, Passacaglia and Burlesque covering the full range of his art. I share the criticism of one reviewer as regards the absence of any detailed notes on the music itself and photogenic though the soloist is no fewer than five photographs of her in a thin accompanying booklet are surely too many.
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