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An Exceptional Violinist
Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and GIUSEPPE PENNISI is impressed
  
On 10 December 2017, in the National Academy of Santa Cecilia's regular subscription series of symphonic concerts, I had the pleasure of listening to Lisa Batiashvili playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, conducted by Antonio Pappano. 
Tchaikovsky's well-known concerto was written during a journey to Switzerland and Italy in 1878 after the definitive and traumatic separation from his wife Antonina. On Lake Geneva, he was joined by his brother Modest and a young violinist Josif Kotek... 
Copyright © 13 December 2017
Giuseppe Pennisi, Rome, Italy
 
       
      
 
 
  
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