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Budapest Festival Orchestra in triumphant Bartók and Mahler

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Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 26 August 2012
Bartók, Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 100, BB 107
Bartók, Violin Concerto no. 1, Sz 36
Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, Conductor
Barnabás Kelemen, 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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