Lisa Batiashvili

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The Arts Desk

Mendelssohn’s C minor Piano Trio took a little while to settle, with the opening movement sounding slightly breathless. But the slow-movement duet between the two strings was ardent indeed. Batiashvili then set up a tremendous pace at the start of the airborne scherzo, her colleagues reacting with glee, culminating in a fantastically insouciant sign-off.

The Financial Times

Lisa Batiashvili ist hauptsächlich solistisch unterwegs, nun spielt sie seit langem einmal wieder im Trio. Doch Kammermusik stellt ganz andere Anforderungen an die Musiker. Ob die Mitstreiter eigentlich merken, wenn man eine Stelle besonders spielen will? Diese und andere Fragen haben die Geigerin vorab beschäftigt

BR-Klassik

Wir fragen, Prominente antworten mit Musik! Heute erzählt die Geigerin Lisa Batiashvili, was sie an ihrer Heimat Georgien vermisst und wie sie ihren täglichen Spagat zwischen Kindern und Beruf meistert.

PlayerFM

She played it as if it were the most important piece in the world...

The Inquirer

Her wistful, cantabile tones never cloyed, while she attacked the cadenza with a thrilling, edge-of-the-seat sense of theatre...

The Arts Desk

Die Sonntagsserie: Unsere Reporter treffen Menschen, die etwas bewegen. Heute: Ein Spaziergang mit Violinistin Lisa Batiashvili.

Morgenpost

“… the concerto does make a fine showcase for Batiashvili’s fearless playing, which is so tonally rich and technically immaculate.”

The Guardian

Batiashvili’s unexpected magic came in another short Kancheli piece, V&V, ethereally building on the extraordinary recorded voice of Georgian popular singer Hamlet Gonashvili.

David Nice - The Arts Desk

"... the Georgian-born Lisa Batiashvili gave a muscular yet poetic account of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto (1903-4, revised 1905) (Prom 2), an ideal pairing with Elgar’s Symphony No 1, written at the same period: both questing works full of angst and melancholy."

Fiona Maddocks - The Guardian