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Earth-shattering Mahler 2 from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Anna Lucia Richter and Christiane Karg with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
© Jessie Kamp
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra
© Jessie Kamp
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“when the percussionists unleashed two tam-tams... the whole Concertgebouw shook”
Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 11 May 2025
Mahler, Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor)
Iván Fischer, Conductor
Christiane Karg, Soprano
Anna Lucia Richter, Mezzo-soprano
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
*****
Budapest Festival Orchestra sprinkles fairydust over London
****1
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