Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite and other works
February 10, 2012
A fascinating chance to compare a composer’s own interpretation with a brilliant newcomer. Ivan Fischer’s new Rite of Spring is lean and hungry, razor-sharp and matches his description of it: “fresh, pagan, scary, new and beautiful”. Quite deliberate in places (Spring Rounds is surely too slow) it is full of piercing, unfamiliar detail and accumulates tremendous weight. Stravinsky’s own version (from 1940, the best of his three) sounds pretty approximate by comparison, though it is well played until the final Sacrificial Dance becomes bumpy. Fischer’s Firebird is achingly lyrical and his fillers are fun, but the composer offers good value by adding instead the short Petrushka suite.
Nicholas Kenyon, guardian.co.uk
May 11, 2012
Con la direzione di Iván Fischer (violino solista Pinchas Zukerman) l’orchestra ha eseguito pagine di due colossi tedeschi: Ludwig van Beethoven e Richard Strauss
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April 27, 2012
Occasione da non perdere quella proposta dalla Stagione concertistica 2012 del Teatro Massimo di Palermo: martedì 8 maggio debutta in città la Budapest Festival Orchestra, considerata oggi una delle compagini orchestrali più prestigiose d’Europa per la precisione tecnica, l’eleganza dell’esecuzione, e la brillantezza timbrica. Sul podio il fondatore e direttore stabile, l’ungherese Iván Fischer e con loro un ospite altrettanto d’eccezione, il violinista Pinchas Zukerman.
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