Latest News: Classical, Iván Fischer (conductor)
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Recording of the Week,
Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin 23rd September 2016David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra 18th May 2015David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Iván Fischer conducts Brahms 15th December 2014David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's new recording of Brahms's Second Symphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Bruckner Symphonies from Claudio Abbado and Iván Fischer 7th July 2014James enjoys a double-bill of Bruckner symphonies - No. 9 from Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's account of No. 7 under Iván Fischer.
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Recording of the Week,
Wagner from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra 24th June 2013Wonderfully balanced and beautifully characterised accounts of the Overture to Die Meistersinger, the Siegfried Idyll and three excerpts from Götterdämmerung, including an Immolation Scene of laser-sharp accuracy and thrilling power from Petra Lang.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler Symphony No. 1 from Iván Fischer 13th August 2012The Hungarian conductor and his Budapest orchestra bring a wonderfully rustic, unrefined flavour to Mahler’s völkisch central movements, in an interpretation which benefits from Fischer’s ear for balance and attention to the smallest details of orchestration.