The Budapest Festival Orchestra and founder Ivan Fischer have a reputation for exciting and joyous performances of Mahler. Even in this most tragic of symphonies, Fischer gave a grateful, if slightly sparse, audience exactly what they wanted. Fischer and his orchestra’s talent was in the delivery, in the work’s ravishing tableaux, and not in its
★★★★★The proof was in the silence, held at the end by the conductor Ivan Fischer as he oh-so-slowly lowered his left hand after the last dying notes faded away.
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