Iván Fischer et le Budapest Festival Orchestra embrasent Évian

Gerhild Romberger

Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra

By Rémi Monti, 29 June 2025

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“un kaléidoscope inépuisable de couleurs et de nuances”

Reviewed at La Grange au Lac, Evian les Bains on 25 June 2025

Mahler, Kindertotenlieder

Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, Conductor

Gerhild Romberger, Contralto

Clarity and communion in Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Mahler 3

Michelle Assay, 12th February

On the final leg of their North American tour, the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Mahler proves a a transformative experience within the intimate setting of Toronto’s Koerner Hall.

*****

Budapest Festival Orchestra plays – and sings – at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 6th February

Joined by violinist Maxim Vengerov, the Hungarian orchestra, under Music Director Iván Fischer, is in top form in a program of three highly contrasting pieces.

****1

Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 11th November

Iván Fischer and Alina Ibragimova transform familiar works into a vivid experience. From Beethoven’s Violin Concerto to Strauss’ Josephs Legende, the orchestra dazzles with colour, energy and cinematic intensity.

****1

Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season

Orsolya Gyárfás, 9th September

Iván Fischer's reworking of his 2017 production of Don Giovanni is musically capable, but dramatically unconvincing.

***11

Bluebeard at the Proms with Iván Fischer and the BFO

Roy Westbrook, 6th August

The evening starts with life-affirming Beethoven – and then, the Budapest Festival Orchestra demonstrate just how good native Hungarians can be in Bartók’s chiller.

*****

Earth-shattering Mahler 2 from the Budapest FO at the Mahler Festival

Clare Varney, 11th May

As part of the Concertgebouw's ambitious Mahler Festival, Christiane Karg, Anna Lucia Richter and the Netherlands Radio Choir join the Budapest Festival Orchestra for the Resurrection Symphony.

*****

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Rémi Monti

Auditeur compulsif de concerts dont l’amour pour la musique classique s’est développé à Toulouse, Paris mais surtout à Moscou, par le chatoiement des pianistes et des orchestres se succédant dans la Grande Salle du Conservatoire, Rémi travaille depuis plusieurs années entre journalisme et production (Radio Classique, Pianiste Magazine, Philippe Maillard Productions, Festival Tons Voisins d’Albi…).

Iván Fischer et le Budapest Festival Orchestra ouvrent les Rencontres Musicales d’Évian