The violinist Lisa Batiashvili entitled her new album “Secret Love Letters”, on which she presents music from late romantic literature by great virtuosos of the past.
Not in any random selection, but pieces of the fine art of concealment, lonely passion, but also moments of emotion in which they are no longer controllable and increase to the point of wild exuberance.
Of course, she wants to emphasize the breadth of her skill as a violinist. Sometimes you can discover unexpected listening experiences with even the most well-known works. For example, there is more emotional power in the first violin concerto by the Pole Karol Szymanowski than other performers bring out in their creation.
The delicacy in “Poème” by Frenchman Ernest Chausson is so delicately spun that it is seldom to be followed. The strict logic of the well-known A major violin sonata with its variation technique by César Franck comes close to Beethoven and this “Beautiful Evening” by Claude Debussy can hardly be enjoyed more romantically than here with Lisa Batiashvili.
Star conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin accompanies the violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra on this journey through intimate landscapes in music and its richness of expression in the most diverse facets and colors.