Europakonzert 2024 from Tsinandali

Live recording on 1 May 2024 with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Lisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim.

“This concert will be the highlight of my life,” says Lisa Batiashvili. But this year's Europakonzert will not only be special for the Georgian-born artist: this is the first time that a top European orchestra has performed in Georgia, a candidate for EU membership.

Tsinandali (Georgian: წინანდალი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, situated in the district of Telavi, 79 km east of Tbilisi. It is noted for the palace and historic winery-estate which once belonged to the 19th-century aristocratic poet Alexander Chavchavadze and which, since 2019, is the venue for the Tsinandali Festival.

Lisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim share an artistic friendship: "What fascinates me most about him is his seriousness, his respect and his love of music, which I can see and feel in him at every moment," says the violinist. In her native Georgia, they will perform Brahms' Violin Concerto. Daniel Barenboim also conducts Beethoven's Fifth.

Genre Orchestral Music
Recording location Amphitheatre Tsinandali, Georgia
Recording date 1 May 2024
Duration approx. 100
Production year 2024
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music International, ZDF, Mezzo, Medici, Les Film Figures Libres, arte
TV Director Henning Kasten
English title of music work Franz Schubert: Overture from Die Zauberharfe, D 644; Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Orchestra / Band Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor Daniel Barenboim
Soloist Lisa Batiashvili, violin