Lisa Batiashvili, too, finds a wholly convincing equilibrium between her bold, passionate entry and the more reflective music that follows. Her view of the work is freer in terms of rhythm and tempo ...

Because composers today aren't falling over one another to write music for the lute, lutenists occasionally engage in creative borrowing — adapting music meant for other instruments. Here, one of ...

We seem to be living in a golden age of classical violinists. Gidon Kremer. Anne-Sophie Mutter. Hilary Hahn. Gil Shaham. Unfortunately, one of the latest to make it into the pantheon, Lisa Batisahvili ...

Semyon Bychkov will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct works composed or inspired by Brahms: Brahms's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist ...

The violin has fascinated her all her life. At the age of two Lisa Batiashvili played the instrument for the first time in her native Georgia and never let go of it again. Today the 32-year-old is one ...

Last Friday morning, the New York Philharmonic played an all-Brahms concert—or sort of an all-Brahms concert. The Double Concerto and Symphony No. 1 were on the program. So was a new piece, meant to ...

When Alfred Brendel first heard the 22-year-old Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili, he uttered words that any young musician would die for: "Every note both sang and spoke... proving once more that ...