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MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
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
MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)
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
BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (Fischer)
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
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Coriolan (Fischer)
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
MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
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
HAYDN Symphonies Nos 96 - 98 (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Danish Chamber Orchestra
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
WAGNER Parsifal (Fischer)
‘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
Annie Fischer Recital
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
MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
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
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Fischer)
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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