Budapest Festival Orchestra
-
…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…
Awards:
-
Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Finalist
-
Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Orchestral
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
-
Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Hungarian Peasant Songs & other folk dances
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Iván Fischer
As Mandarins go, they don't come more miraculous than this – a vivid, no-holds-barred performance. Everything tells: the flavour is right, the pacing too, and the sound has a toughened, raw-edged... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Orchestral
-
Building A Library, December 2023, Recommended Recording
-
-
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…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
It is the flavour of this Concerto for Orchestra that wins the day. Just sample the subtle portamento that spices the string line at bars 52-3 (2'36'') of the first movement, and the sombre... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
-
Building A Library, January 2022, Recommended Recording
-
-
Awards:
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
-
-
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Cantemus Children's Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Iván Fischer
As vivid a performance as one would expect. That stylishly lazy trombone, a dying monster, is emblematic of the characteristic licence the conductor gives to his splendid Budapest players…the... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
-
The Times Records of the Year, 2017
-
The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
-
Record Review, 20th May 2017, Recording of the Week
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Audiophile Multi-Track Recording of the Year
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
New,
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
You can always expect insights from Iván Fischer's energised Budapest Festival Orchestra, and he has his own distinctive view on this most traumatic and ultimately transcendent of symphonies…for... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 18th May 2015
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Offer,
Liszt: Tone Poems & Hungarian Rhapsodies London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra de Paris, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, Iván Fischer
Fischer’s idiomatic foray into this well-worn repertoire is distinguished by tonal lustre and high spirits … Charm is in generous supply everywhere … There is plenty of power, too, with meaty... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Re-issue of the Month
2 CDs
Original price ($16.25) Reduced price $12.25 -
-
Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. Throughout there’s a transparency to the recorded sound, even in the heftiest... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Orchestral Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
