U28 Concert: Lisa Batiashvili with her program “City Lights / Follow Your Dreams” – free admission

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Lisa Batiashvili takes you on a musical journey through eleven cities that have shaped her life – from Tbilisi and Berlin to Buenos Aires. “City Lights / Follow Your Dreams” combines classical music with jazz, tango and film music – accompanied by impressive film projections on a large screen.

More About This Programme

Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli take the audience on a sonorous journey through eleven cities that hold special meaning for Batiashvili. From Chaplin and Legrand to Piazzolla – classical music meets jazz, tango and film music. The performance is accompanied by an impressive screen projection that brings the stories of the cities to life cinematically.

The following works represent selected locations:

PRELUDE: City Memories / Smile
Charlie Chaplin, José Padilla Sánchez, Leo Daniderff
Medley composed and arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli

MUNICH: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Johann Sebastian Bach
arranged by Anders Hillborg

HELSINKI: Evening Song
traditional
arranged by Jarkko Riihimäki

PARIS: Paris Violon
Michel Legrand
arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli

BERLIN: Remembrance / Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin
Nikoloz Rachveli, Ralph Maria Siegel
Medley composed and arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli
Solo: Philipp Hutter, trumpet

VIENNA: Liebeslied / Furioso-Galopp
Fritz Kreisler, Johann Strauss
re-orchestrated by Nikoloz Rachveli

INTERLUDE: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Giya Kancheli
arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli

RIO DE JANEIRO: Desafinado
Antônio Carlos Jobim
arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli

NEW YORK: Goin’ Home
Largo from Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
orchestrated by Tamás Batiashvili

BUENOS AIRES: Buenos Aires Hora Cero / Vuelvo al sur
Astor Piazzolla
Medley composed and arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli
Solo: Amiran Mariamidze, guitar

LONDON: No Better Magic
Katie Melua
Vocals, guitar and bass line arranged by Katie & Zurab Melua
arranged for orchestra by Nikoloz Rachveli

BUCHAREST: Ciocârlia
traditional
arranged by Stephan Koncz

TBILISI: Lights of Sorrow / Herio Bichebo
Giya Kancheli
Medley composed and arranged by Nikoloz Rachveli

DANCE FOR FREEDOM: Khorumi
Nikoloz Rachveli

Programme subject to change.

New Concert Formats

The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra is exploring new concert formats to appeal to audiences beyond the traditional classical music community. Artists who curate personal programmes can play an important role in this approach.

Following multimedia projects with pianists Alice Sara Ott and Hélène Grimaud, as well as pop-symphonic collaborations with Herbert Grönemeyer, the orchestra continues this series with the German-Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili.

The Artist’s Idea

The starting point for the album and concert project “City Lights / Follow Your Dreams” was Charlie Chaplin, who for Batiashvili embodies the “beauty and creative imagination of the 20th century” as an actor, filmmaker and composer. Inspired by Chaplin’s music and films, she assembled works that musically portray key cities in her life.

Her programme “City Lights / Follow Your Dreams” thus brings together a wide range of genres on a journey between Tbilisi, Berlin, Paris and Buenos Aires. The repertoire ranges from classical music by J.S. Bach and Giya Kancheli to Charlie Chaplin’s film music, jazz, pop and the tango of Astor Piazzolla. The deeply personal yet broad nature of Batiashvili’s “love for music, culture and the people of these places” is reflected in the music from “Cinema Paradiso” and in an arrangement – featuring violin – from Dvořák’s “New World Symphony”.