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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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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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The Ragazze Quartet...[favour] keen inflections, luminous textures (especially in the first movement [of the Dvorak] and a consistent sense of mobility...Their biggest strength is an added quota... — More…
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The performance of the Second Serenade is entirely enjoyable. Fischer coaxes his Budapest wind players to deliver some beautifully mellifluous playing, especially in the slow movement and the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
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it is even more integrated in thematic structure than the First, and it is that balance between detailed focus and spontaneity that Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra strike so... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2014
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In some respects this is a very personal disc. It aims, we are told, to explore the 'many and often subtle definitions' of the word 'romantic' as expressed in music for viola and piano...Zemtsov's... — More…
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