Budapest Festival Orchestra
Artist's website: https://www.bfz.hu/en/
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (Hungarian: Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar) was formed in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis, with musicians "drawn from the cream of Hungary's younger players", as The Times put it. Its aim was to make the orchestra's concerts into significant events in Hungary's musical life, and to give Budapest a new symphony orchestra of international standing.
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Wagner from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
24th Jun 2013
Wonderfully 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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New. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Miah Persson (Donna Elvira), Maria Bengtsson (Donna Anna), Bernard Richter (Don Ottavio), Samantha Gaul (Zerlina), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Lisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto) Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Zoltán Kocsis (piano) Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
SACD: $23.50Download from $9.25
