Lisa Batiashvili's new album Secret Love Letters brings music inspired by late-Romantic literature and great virtuosos from the past: Karol Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto, Ernest Chausson's Poème, César Franck's Sonata in A Major for violin and piano and Claude Debussy's Beau soir.
"What would human life be," asks Lisa Batiashvili, "without this abundance of feelings that we think we cannot share with anyone?" Her new album celebrates the beautiful art of concealment, solitary passion, but also the moment when it can no longer be contained. On Secret Love Letters, the violinist explores some very romantic musical pieces. She is accompanied by the Philadelphia Orchestra - the first time she records an album with an American ensemble - and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with whom she has already performed several times, and by the young Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili. They play music that tells of forbidden love, but also of love gone by in old age.
"There are so many hidden messages in music, things that you cannot express in words," says Lisa Batiashvili. "The pieces by Chausson, Debussy, Franck and Szymanowski that I chose for this album are connected by something very obvious. It is the message of love, which in the music is expressed in so many different facets and colors. And so often this message is secret and very intimate." Nézet-Séguin agrees with the violinist: "Music begins where words end, that is one of my favorite quotes. The special thing about music is that it enables us to say things that we sometimes do not even admit to ourselves".
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