A portrait of violin star Lisa Batiashvili’s eleven favorite cities from classical to tango, film music to chanson in a visually stunning multimedia show.
Sun. 20.9.2026
19:30, Beethovenhalle, Great Hall
Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights
- Orchestra, Cross-Genre
- Tickets
- € 69 / 59 / 49 / 39 / 29 / 19
Contributors
- Dresdner Philharmonie
- Lisa Batiashvili violin
- Nikoloz Rachveli conductor
Programme
Nikoloz Rachveli
Follow Your Dreams. Suite based on movie themes by Charlie Chaplin, José Padilla Sanchez, Leo Daniderff (Los Angeles)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Choral prelude Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639, arr. by Anders Hillborg (Munich)
Finnish Trad.
Evening Song, arr. by Jarkko Piihimäki (Helsinki)
Michel Legrand
Paris Violon, arr. by Nikoloz Rachveli (Paris)
Nikoloz Rachveli & Ralph Maria Siegel
Remembrance/Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin. Medley (Berlin)
Fritz Kreisler & Johann Strauss
Liebeslied/Furioso Gallopp, arr. by Nikoloz Rachveli (Vienna)
Antonín Dvořák
Goin’ Home. Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 »From the New World«, arr. by Tamas Batiashvili (New York)
Astor Piazzolla
Buenos Aires Hora Cero/Vuelvo al Sur. Medley, arr. by Nikoloz Rachveli (Buenos Aires)
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Desafinado, arr. by Nikoloz Rachveli (Rio de Janeiro)
Katie Melua
No Better Magic, arr. by Katie & Zurab Melua and Nikoloz Rachveli (London)
Romanian Trad.
Ciocârlia (»The Lark«), arr. by Stephan Koncz (Bucharest)
Giya Kancheli
Lights of Sorrow/Herio Bitschebo. Medley, arr. by Nikoloz Rachveli (Tbilisi)
Nikoloz Rachveli
Khorumi. Dance for Freedom
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Opening hours: 14:00–19:30
Family Sunday – with games, fun, and children’s concerts
- 14:00–14:30 Uhr: Family Concert: Baba Yaga
- 15:30–17:30 childcare available
- 16:00–17:30 Art workshop Artefact (for children)
- 16:00–18:00 Workshop Build a Musical Instrument (for children with parents)
Description
»No matter where you go, the important places of your life will always be close to you«, says Lisa Batiashvili about her programme »City Lights«. Our Artist-in-Residence portrays her favourite cities with the violin, starting with her native Tbilisi and traveling via Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Helsinki to New York, Buenos Aires, and beyond. With new arrangements for violin and orchestra from classical, jazz, chanson, and film music and enhanced by video projections, she tells her personal story.
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