Review | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer’s Triumphant Mahler 3 in Toronto
Mahler’s longest, most philosophically ambitious, and second most lavishly scored symphony, in a less than full-sized hall, could so easily have proved too much of…
Browsing: Ivan Fischer
Editorial (February 2026)
Welcome to the February/March 2026 national issue of La Scena Musicale, with a special focus on orchestras! Our French cover features Orchestre Classique de Montréal’s…
Iván Fischer: A Visionary in Budapest
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) is an anomaly when it comes to the other elite ensembles that share its top-10 world ranking. The Vienna Philharmonic…
Mahler: 7th symphony (Channel Classics)
Many regard the seventh as the most perplexing of Mahler’s symphonies. Coming after the extreme pessimism of the sixth, it appears to revert to the…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mahler: Third symphony (Channel Classics)
There is no wholly recommendable performance on record of Mahler’s third symphony. The earliest, by F. Charles Adler in 1952, is faultlessly idiomatic, as is…
