Mahler: Symphony No. 7

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Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. Throughout there’s a transparency to the recorded sound, even in the heftiest... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2019 More…

Release Date: 15th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: CCSSA38019
Label: Channel
Series: Iván Fischer Mahler Symphonies
Length: 75 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

April 2019

Recording of the Month
BBC Music Magazine

June 2019

Orchestral Choice
International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Symphonic Music

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Work length1:15:14

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

I. Langsam – Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo

Track length20:54

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II. Nachtmusik I: Allegro moderato

Track length14:36

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III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft

Track length9:11

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IV. Nachtmusik II: Andante amoroso

Track length12:36

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V. Rondo – Finale

Track length17:57

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When Iván Fischer founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra more than 30 years ago he made a personal dream become true. Core of the philosophy of the orchestra is the total absence of daily routine. It is about taking the risk, the initiative and freedom to do things differently. Every concert is therefore a joyful discovery of uncharted territory, a journey to new horizons in music. It feels unexpected and surprising as if it was played for the very first time. The Festival Orchestra is driven by an openness towards the new and the unknown, by curiosity and attention to details. It is the innovative approach to music, the musician’s dedication and their permanent strive for excellence that made Budapest Festival Orchestra the youngest of the top 10 ranked ensembles in the world.

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June 2019

Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. Throughout there’s a transparency to the recorded sound, even in the heftiest passages, which is beautifully underlined by natural, state-of-the-art recording.

April 2019

I honestly can’t remember hearing a performance of this extraordinary symphony that was so plainly in love with its ethos, its originality, its sonority. Iván Fischer reads the ‘small print’ of the score with such thoroughness that he makes most other readings feel like generalisations by comparison. It’s one of those performances that makes one think of the piece differently, and that in itself is cause for celebration and reassessment.

His strikes me as a considered approach, in every sense of the word, but that’s not so suggest it’s without nuance or character...Hein Dekker and Jared Sacks’s judiciously balanced, ‘hear through’ recording is a great asset in this respect, Mahler’s smaller, easy-to-miss epiphanies beautifully caught. As for the playing, it’s beyond reproach, with ravishing harps and well-blended Wagnerian brass.

3rd March 2019

Fischer...is an eloquent champion, celebrating the work’s eclecticism – cow bells, courtly dances, folk song – in a blaze of aural invention. His players, as ever, are lithe, spirited, virtuosic.

12th April 2019

In sorrow or joy, everything is richly textured, heralded from the start by a haunting tenor horn, the first of many gorgeously earthy wind colours from an orchestra and conductor who seem constitutionally unable to generate a boring sound. The Channel Classics recording contributes its own warmth and clarity, especially helpful in the Nachtmusik interludes, or the brief visitations by a mandolin, guitar, and gently rattling cowbells. Whatever the music’s mood, I found Fischer’s reading utterly compelling and a spring tonic.

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There can be little doubt that, for many, it will be the top choice for a recording of this symphony.

Record Review

Every phrase moulded with care, each emotional nuance embraced with affection.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 7

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