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…Fischer's feeling of the Symphony's supple architecture, his ability to caress a phrase or point out a delicious colour without losing the sense of the larger flow, make this one of the most... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... — More…
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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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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. — More…
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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... — More…
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If you chanced on this recording you’d be very impressed, I hope. A superb orchestra and a deeply committed conductor...if this is the way you get to know this work, no injustice will be done. — More…
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Of the two performances, the Fifth Symphony is particularly successful, Its first movement, taken at a real lick, has a tremendous atmosphere of excitement and coiled tension…There’s much to... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Fischer and his Budapest forces possess the right ingredients: the orchestra is well drilled in an interpretation that's as straight as a Roman road; its strings are searing, and brass and wooodwind... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Orchestral
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra & Pro Musica (women's choir), Iván Fischer
Fischer is alive to the magical atmosphere of Felix Mendelssohn’s score and nowhere more keenly than at the start of the overture, where the four wind chords are extended beyond their usual... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off the beaten track. Rather than cue the familiar shimmering haze, Fischer prefers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Fischer finds more mystery in the slow introduction to the first movement of the Fourth Symphony than many other conductors...And it gets better and better: there's a beautiful, singing quality... — More…
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