Lisa Batiashvili debuts with Czech Philharmonic

Live recorded in Prague: Lisa Batiashvili & Jakub Hrůša play Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No.3.

The Czech Philharmonic welcomes the warmer season with a debut with world-renowned violinist Lisa Batiashvili. Filmed at the Rudolfinum in Prague, and under the baton of the orchestra’s principal guest conductor Jakub Hrůša, she performs Camille Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto.

The programme continues with Johannes Brahms’s classically inspired and increasingly complex variations on a chorale theme.

The third piece is Antonín Dvořák’s “Symphonic Variations”; with a theme that comes from Dvořák’s own songs for male choir: “The Fiddler”. The variations that follow its presentation encompass a colourful range of moods, culminating in a fugue that suddenly becomes a lively polka.

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Recording location Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfinum, Prague
Recording date 14.4.2021
Duration 74
Production Company Czech Philharmonic
TV Director Michael Beyer
English title of music work Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
English title of music work Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, op 56a
English title of music work Antonín Dvořák: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78
Orchestra / Band Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Jakub Hrůša
Soloist Lisa Batiashvili, violin