シティ・ライツ

美しいメロディで旅する世界の都市

リサ・バティアシュヴィリの人生とキャリアにとって重要な都市と想い出を、美しい音楽とともに集めました。
ミロシュ、ケイティ・メルア、ティル・ブレナーら、豪華アーティストとのコラボレーション。
ジャンルを超えた名曲を表情豊かなヴァイオリンで聴く、極上の癒し!
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is at the stage in her career where a crossover album, aimed at making her a marquee draw, was called for. It would have been easy for her put together an album filled with the likes of My Heart Will Go On, and it is to her credit that she has devised a release that is altogether more original. The title City Lights has a dual meaning: it refers to the suite of music by Charlie Chaplin that opens the album (its still forgotten sometimes that he was a composer as well as a filmmaker), and to the set of pieces that follow, each of which is associated with a city having significance in Batiashvilis life and career. These range across Europe, also including Buenos Aires and New York, and concluding in the violinists native Georgia, in Tbilisi. The idea is clever, but its the execution that really clicks. Working mostly with composer Nikoloz Rachveli, Batiashvili offers a mixture of classical selections, popular songs, semi-popular virtuoso or dance works, a Piazzolla tango, and, for the recent death of Ennio Morricone, the Theme from Cinema Paradiso. Rachvelis arrangements tie the program together well, even with dual orchestral accompaniments from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Georgian Philharmonic (Rachveli conducts both), and leaves room for considerable expressiveness on Batiashvilis part. A fine example of a crossover release.