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The Bottom Line: Just about everything Kocsis did is worth […]
The Bottom Line: Smart coupling, beautiful Second Serenade, gorgeous sound, but a disappointing Third Symphony, whose outer movements lack rhythm and excitement, even with an
Iván Fischer has nothing to tell us in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. Indeed, the music defeats him at virtually every turn. The first movement introduction (and
Iván Fischer has his orchestra playing so beautifully that I
Iván Fischer seems to have caught a severe case of Micro-Managitus, not that we couldn’t see it coming. The symptoms are evident in the Midsummer
The playing on this disc is so beautiful that it
Good, even very good recordings of Mahler’s Third Symphony are
Zoltán Kocsis’ Bartók piano concertos with Iván Fischer are probably
Iván Fischer has made some first rate Tchaikovsky recordings. This isn’t one of them. At just about every point he seems uninterested, even embarrassed by
Iván Fischer always has his Budapest Festival Orchestra playing at a very high level. The strings are sweet are silky, balances are true, and in
