Iván Fischer
Born: 20th January 1951, Budapest
Nationality: Hungarian
Iván Fischer is founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
The partnership between Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra has proved to be one of the greatest success stories in the past three decades of classical music. Intense international touring and a series of acclaimed recordings for Philips Classics, later for Channel Classics have contributed to Iván Fischer's reputation as one of the world's most visionary and successful orchestra leaders.
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Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin
23rd Sep 2016
David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.
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Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
18th May 2015
David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Recent Best Sellers: Iván Fischer
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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
2 SACDs: $33.25Download from $9.25 -
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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
