JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto (with Clara Schumann - Violin Sonatas) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann, with Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 24/Jan/2013 ] "Batiashvili can always justify revisiting a popular work such as the Brahms Violin Concerto. Her reading of this tough masterpiece is more lyrical than combative, but there is a tensile quality throughout. Speeds are well judged and the Dresden band... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Songs (arr piano and violin) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "I have to hand it to Yannick Nezet-Seguin: this is without question one of the finest Pathetiques to have come my way in the last 30 or so years. Proof of credentials appears fairly early on." (Gramophone) |
KANCHELI / PART / RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Echoes of Time Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "few if any [recordings of the Shostakovich] are finer than this one...Batiashvili's reflective, almost weightless approach in the opening Nocturne...is rendered more distinctive by the resonant acoustic of the empty Herkulessaal." (Recording of the... |
VIVALDI
L'estro armonico Op 3 / 6 flute concertos Op 10 Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) / The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock [ DG Double / 2 CD - released 4/May/2005 ] PINNOCK'S VIVALDI: Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert's 1980s digital recordings of Vivaldi remain a highlight of the Archiv catalogue, offering benchmark interpretations of this ever-popular composer, whose rhythmic energy and plangent lyricisml... |
HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF / STRAUSS
Lisa della Casa sings Handel and Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Karl Hudez (piano) & Wiener Philharmoniker, Heinrich Hollreiser [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 12 / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "stylistic approaches to Hande's Giulio Cesare may have moved on...but her Lieder singing...remains treasurable in its tonal and textual expertise." (BBC Music) |
Lisa Hannigan
At Swim [ Liberation / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] At Swim is the new album from Irish artist Lisa Hannigan. Produced by Aaron Dessner (The National), this is Hannigan's third - and most bewitching - record. Recording took place in a church in Hudson, New York, during a furiously creative... |
Lisa Hannigan
Live at Fingerprints [ CD ] |
Lisa Hannigan
Sea Sew (Digipak) [ Hoop / CD - released 28/May/2012 ] |
Lisa Kelly
Celtic Woman Presents: Lisa [ Manhattan Records / CD ] |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 5 (BWV 202, 205, 206, 207a, 210, 212, 213) Lisa Larsson, Els Bongers, Anne Grimm, Sybilla Rubens, Elisabeth von Magnus / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Koopman [ Challenge Classics / 4 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] This 5th volume is devoted exclusively to secular cantatas of the Leipzig period from 1725-1742. |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 12 (BWV 8, 78, 91, 99, 107, 111, 114, 116, 121, 124, 135 & Appendix to No. 8) Lisa Larsson / Sibylla Rubens / Annette Markert / Christoph Pragardien / Klaus Mertens / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Ton Koopman [ Challenge Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach’s second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 7 (BWV 24, 25, 67, 95, 105, 136, 144, 147, 148, 173, 181,184) Lisa Larsson (soprano) Bogna Bartosz, Elisabeth von Magnus (alto) Gerd Tark (tenor) / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Ton Koopman [ Challenge Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] "The recording project of the nineties.” — The Guardian |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 4 (BWV 198, 201, 204, 209, 211, 214, 215) Lisa Larsson (soprano) Elisabeth von Magnus, Peter de Groot (Altos) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Ton Koopman [ Challenge Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] The acclaimed series of complete Bach cantatas with The Amsterdam Baroque, conducted by Ton Koopman and originally begun on the now-defunct Erato label, has been rescued by Challenge Classics. |
Lisa Loeb
The Very Best Of [ Geffen Records / CD - released 24/Jan/2006 ] |
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
Tails [ Geffen Records / CD ] |
Lisa Stansfield
Biography: The Greatest Hits [ BMG Music / CD - released 23/Jun/2003 ] All her best songs, digitally re-mastered, together on one great collection |
J. S. BACH
Peaceful Bach Martha Argerich, Avi Avital, Lisa Batiashvili, Rafal Blechacz, Helene Grimaud, Murray Perahia, Hilary Hahn, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2019 ] A 2CD album of Bach's most relaxing melodies played by legendary artists and upcoming stars like Murray Perahia, Giuliano Carmignola, Rafal Blechacz, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, etc |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 9 (BWV 37, 48, 66, 70, 86, 138, 153, 154, 166, 194) Sibylla Rubens, Lisa Larsson (soprano) Christoph Pragardien (tenor) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Ton Koopman [ Challenge Classics / 3 CD - released 6/May/2000 ] The ninth volume of this complete recording of Bach’s cantatas continues the series of cantatas from the first Leipzig cycle. |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 2002) Glyndebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, Lisa Milne / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] G: "(Von Otter's) Carmen has loads of overt sexuality - she languidly glides through the Habanera while sucking on a piece of fruit and then a cigar - and she shows plenty of temperament and fatalism tinged with fear later." (Los Angeles Times) |