Lisa Batiashvili: I’m playing a gay concerto – Slippedisc – Slipped Disc

The Georgian violinist describes her new DG recording of the Szymanoski concerto as follows:

It ‘tells about the love and pain of a man who had to deny his feelings for another man because at the time this love was both by law as condemned by society. The music dances between eroticism and pity, between a dream world and bitter reality.’

Her conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, adds: ‘Music begins where words end. What’s special about music is that it allows us to say things that we sometimes don’t even admit to ourselves…’