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Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer review – palpable joy in a vivid Prom pairing of Beethoven and Bluebeard

Conductor Iván Fischer and his players teased out the tiny details in a stirring Seventh Symphony, while Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was full of grisly Hungarian intensity

The Guardian - UK

Composer Gustav Mahler, whose music is enjoying new popularity, is celebrated at Amsterdam festival

A Gustav Mahler festival featuring all his symphonies and other major works is taking place at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam through May 18

The Independent UK

Levit/Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – edgy Prokofiev baffles and compels

Under Iván Fischer’s baton, clarinettist Ákos Ács and pianist Igor Levit guided the orchestra to hurtling heights – buzzing speaker notwithstanding

The Guardian - UK

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Classical home listening: Beethoven’s Eroica from Budapest; Tine Thing Helseth and band

Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra inspire with a resounding account of Beethoven’s third symphony, while the Norwegian trumpeter and tenThing Brass Ensemble showcase female composers

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

The Guardian - UK

Proms 37 & 38: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – bold, theatrical and enthralling

The first two Proms of the Hungarians’ mini residency found orchestra, conductor and soloist Andras Schiff moving and thinking as one. The Audience Choice programme might have been eccentric but it was hugely entertaining

The Guardian - UK

Prom 39 at the Royal Albert Hall: Budapest Festival Orchestra put on a night of surprises and spontaneity

The programme of Ligeti, Bartók and Beethoven included a virtuoso performance by soprano Anna-Lena Elbert

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Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – heart-rending and remarkable Mahler

The searing dissonances and lyricism of Mahler’s Ninth, the composer’s poignant confrontation with mortality, are drawn out with remarkable clarity

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms 2023: the 20 concerts to book now, from Anna Lapwood to a Northern Soul night

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

Evening Standard

The week in classical: The Ring of the Nibelung; Berlin Philharmonic/ Fischer review – a human experiment

Outstanding performances can’t save Tcherniakov’s new Ring, complete with live rabbits, from closing to a barrage of boos…

The Guardian - UK

BFO/Fischer review – Stravinsky dazzles and thrills in two sensational concerts

Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra triumphed in this pair of concerts focusing on the works of Stravinsky, with virtuosic soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Nicolas Namoradze

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