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Nicola Benedetti and Budapest Festival Orchestra in a legendary partnership in Edinburgh

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“like hearing music at a warm fireside”
Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 10 August 2017
Schubert, Die Zauberharfe, D.644: ouverture
Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Dvořák, Symphony no. 8 in G major, Op.88
Brahms, Hungarian Dance no. 15 in B major
Dvořák, 5 Moravian Duets, Op.32
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, Conductor
Nicola Benedetti, Violin
Clarity and communion in Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Mahler 3
*****
Budapest Festival Orchestra plays – and sings – at Carnegie Hall
****1
Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season
***11
Bluebeard at the Proms with Iván Fischer and the BFO
*****
Earth-shattering Mahler 2 from the Budapest FO at the Mahler Festival
*****
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