Hough, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, Royal Festival Hall | reviews, news & interviews
Hough, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, Royal Festival Hall
Hough, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, Royal Festival Hall
Music to usher in the Liszt bicentenary and Hungarian EU Presidency
Monday, 17 January 2011
Ivan Fischer's conducting: All about colour and texture and an open-air freshness
Who knew the changeover of the EU Presidency could be this much fun? Amid the formal bowing and scraping at the Royal Festival Hall bunfights last night that signalled that the Hungarians were now at the tiller of this sinking political ship were some dodgy political metaphors, a round of orchestral Where's Wally and some extraordinary music.
Who knew the changeover of the EU Presidency could be this much fun? Amid the formal bowing and scraping at the Royal Festival Hall bunfights last night that signalled that the Hungarians were now at the tiller of this sinking political ship were some dodgy political metaphors, a round of orchestral Where's Wally and some extraordinary music.
It was all about colour and texture and an open-air freshness, about forceful gusts and cooling eddies
Share this article
more Classical music
Jerusalem Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - singing to make the heart leap
Peerless interpretations of quartets by Mozart, Prokofiev and Brahms
Requiem, Opera North review - partnership and diversity
Choral-orchestral performance meets contemporary dance in cross-cultural fusion
Benedetti, Kanneh-Mason, Grosvenor, RSNO, Søndergård, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - gorgeous textures, starry soloists
'All Star Gala' shines as much in the contributions of the regulars as in its guests
Classical CDs: Innocence, experience and time travel
Box sets of symphonies, exciting contemporary music and a lovable French composer gets his due
Douglas, Estonian NSO, Elts, Cadogan Hall review - perfect ebb and flow from conductor and pianist
Four glorious works, Thea Musgrave rarity included, plus three encores
theartsdesk at the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival - romps and meditations at the highest level
Pianist Kathryn Stott curates a meeting of Yorkshire's top team with special guests
Estonian National Male Voice Choir, Üleoja, Kings Place review - full-throated Baltic choral music
Adventurous programme thrills, threatens and enthrals
Grosvenor, Kanneh-Mason, Park, Hallé, Stasevska, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - the factors that make for a full house
Solo fireworks from a starry line-up and a very fine conductor in action
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer, RFH review - elegy and ecstasy
A charismatic, idiomatic account of Mahler's Ninth from the great Hungarians
Ein Deutsches Requiem, SCO, Emelyanychev, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - immaculate, but lacking soul
Full-blooded Brahms from chamber forces
First Person: violinist and animateur Bjarte Eike on filming the celebrated Alehouse Sessions
Barokksolistene's mover and shaker on the thinking behind his group's 'old pop music'
Kozhukhin, BBCSSO, Menezes, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - shimmering Saariaho and moody Mendelssohn
Italian-Brazilian conductor takes full command in her Scottish debut
Add comment