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This beautifully recorded CD gets off to an auspicious start with an exquisitely phrased and subtly controlled account of Brahms's 14th Hungarian Dance… The Haydn Variations… sounds particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Sep 2009
Catalogue No: CCSSA28309
Label: Channel
Length: 67 minutes

This release includes a digital booklet

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 14 in D minor

Work length2:35

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Work length17:56

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Thema, Chorale St. Antoni, Andante

Track length2:04

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Variation 1, Poco più animato (Andante con moto)

Track length1:12

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Variation 2, Più vivace (Vivace)

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Variation 3, Con moto

Track length1:41

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Variation 4 Andante con moto (Andante)

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Variation 5 Vivace (Poco presto)

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Variation 6, Vivace

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Variation 7, Grazioso

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Variation 8, Presto non troppo (Poco presto)

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Finale, Andante

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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Work length46:40

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro

Track length16:25

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II. Andante Sostenuto

Track length8:47

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III. Un poco allegretto grazioso

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IV. Adagio - Allegro non troppo ma con brio

Track length16:55

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Ivan Fischer tunrs his attention to Brahms following three acclaimed and Award winning recordings of Mahler.

Stunning interpretation of Brahms Symphony No.1 – once again Ivan Fisher forces the the listener to re-appraise familiar repertoire.

“An orchestra musician is an artist, not an employee, and artists must be given the chance to take initiatives and to be creative. Only an orchestra of true artists – making music as a highly disciplined team - is able to realize the dreams of the composers and pass on an uplifting experience to the audience, touching all listeners deep in their heart. This is our aim for which the Budapest Festival Orchestra has been created.” Iván Fischer

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Christmas 2009

This beautifully recorded CD gets off to an auspicious start with an exquisitely phrased and subtly controlled account of Brahms's 14th Hungarian Dance… The Haydn Variations… sounds particularly satisfying here… Fischer secures clarity of texture throughout without sacrificing any warmth. Fischer opens the First Symphony in a very striking but undeniably effective manner, the strings tracing the soaring chromatic melody with the same portamento rich sonority as in the Hungarian Dance. ...perhaps the most exciting and riveting playing is reserved for the Finale where Fischer shows an unerring sense of pacing, coaxing the musical argument from the depths of despair in the opening to triumph, affirmation and elation at the close.

April 2011

Ivan Fischer's recording is a real joy: Classical-style limpid textures, an all-round more sprightly attack, yet still a warmly Romantic sound.

December 2009

Fischer and his decidedly classy Budapest orchestra treat the Variations as an affectionate tribute to Haydn, an east-of-Vienna man if ever there was one. Finely sprung and nicely styled, the performance even has its own zigeunerisch dimension - in the finale where Brahms's witty and heroic use of the triangle is neatly pointed. the symphony... too is a vibrant affair, stylish and alert... This is a more extrovert reading than many you will hear, less burdened.

9th October 2009

Ever the radical, [Fischer] effectively refashions each work from scratch. The Haydn Variations have a grace and lightness of touch we don't often hear in them. The First, meanwhile, is monumental in every sense of the word...Outstanding.

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