Iván Fischer conducts Borodin & Tchaikovsky

Fischer once again doesn’t disappoint; indeed, he’s brought to light elements of this work, in particular textural detaileven during the loud brass-led sections, the strings can still be heard... — David Smith, Presto Classical, 23rd September 2016 More…

Release Date: 23rd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: CCSSA37016
Label: Channel
Length: 58 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

23rd September 2016

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

Work length46:40

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Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
Iván Fischer

I. Adagio-Allegro non troppo

Track length18:34

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II. Allegro con grazia

Track length7:52

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III. Allegro molto vivace

Track length9:50

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IV. Adagio lamentoso

Track length10:24

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Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances (with chorus)

Work length11:54

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Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

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Recording of the Week, Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin

23rd September 2016

David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.

When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky stepped onto the stage in Saint Petersburg on 28 October 1893 to introduce his Sixth Symphony to the public, he was received with a roar of applause. Three quarters of an hour later the astonished audience was dumbfounded. How could a symphony begin so softly and end even more so? And what about the second movement with its undanceable waltz, and the third with its unstoppable march? Nine days after the premiere, Tchaikovsky died in a city ravaged by cholera.

The truly Russian mood that we associate with Tchaikovsky is also felt in the music of Borodin. His opera ‘Prince Igor’ remained incomplete when he died, but the Overture, the Chorus and Dance of the Polovtsian girls, the Polovtsian March and the on this recording added well-known Polovtsian Dances, gained a place of its own in orchestral repertoire.

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23rd September 2016

Fischer once again doesn’t disappoint; indeed, he’s brought to light elements of this work, in particular textural detaileven during the loud brass-led sections, the strings can still be heard over the top with a clarity that seems barely believable.

2nd October 2016

The sheer natural musicality of Fischer’s Budapest players is, as always, refreshing...the March is poised and brilliant, and if the finale could be even darker, it is eloquently played.

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Recording of the Week, Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin