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Review of MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Fischer)

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Fischer)

Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Avi

The ‘other’ Fischer boldly goes where his younger brother has enjoyed such conspicuous success – and Adam, with his excellent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Adám Fischer | Anna Larsson | Clara-Schumann-Jugenchor | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra | Städtische Musikverein Düsseldorf Women's Choir

Avi

Eight unison horns dramatically announce Mahler’s pantheistic hymn to the natural world. And if the opening bars of Adám Fischer’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

Review of BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (Fischer)

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (Fischer)

Philippe Quint | Thierry Fischer | University of Utah Chamber Choir | Utah Symphony Chorus | Utah Symphony Orchestra

Hyperion

It’s unfortunate timing for Hyperion that its new disc of the Symphonie fantastique follows hot on the heels of Les...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

Review of BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Coriolan (Fischer)

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Coriolan (Fischer)

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Channel Classics

After the heroic first movement and the tragic second, writes Iván Fischer in a brief foreword to this new Budapest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Fischer)

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Fischer)

Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Avi Music

As this final chapter of Adám Fischer’s distinctive, occasionally inspired Mahler cycle draws to a close, dare I say that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2022

Review of HAYDN Symphonies Nos 96 - 98 (Fischer)

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 96 - 98 (Fischer)

Adám Fischer | Danish Chamber Orchestra

Naxos

Where Mozart’s symphonic scores tend to be treated as sacrosanct, Haydn’s are often a cue for added ‘effects’, ear-tickling or...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

Review of WAGNER Parsifal (Fischer)

WAGNER Parsifal (Fischer)

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester | Christopher Ventris | Dutch National Opera Chorus | Falk Struckmann | Mikhail Petrenko | Petra Lang | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam (members of)

Challenge Classics

‘I was not thinking of the Redeemer when I created Parsifal’, wrote Wagner. In ceremonial moments stage director Pierre Audi...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2017

Review of Annie Fischer Recital

Annie Fischer Recital

Annie Fischer

BBC Music Legends/IMG Artists

Few pianists have found a more direct path to poetic truth than Annie Fischer. Blessedly free of all attitudinising or...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2001

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Fischer)

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Fischer)

Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Avi

This is a terrific account of Mahler’s fledgling symphony – full of the rashness and impetuosity of youth and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2018

Review of BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Fischer)

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Fischer)

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Channel Classics

Almost a decade after the release of his recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony (8/14), Iván Fischer has now turned his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022

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