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| Iván Fischer |
In a review of a performance of Mahler's second symphony, the "Resurrection", Washington Post staff writer Anne Midgette wrote that Fischer "probed the (National Symphony Orchestra) in stimulating ways, to which the players did their best -often a very good best - to respond."
She noted that Fischer had "set the bar very high" with his own recording of the same work made with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, which he founded in 1983. The recording, made in 2006, was "powerful in unexpected ways: avoiding obvious pathos, yet strongly moving," Midgette wrote. "Fischer's approach is that he digs into the music so passionately and yet avoids heart-on-the-sleeve emotion."
Midgette wrote that the concert offered a foretaste of things to come during Fischer's two-year appointment to the post of principal conductor in the autumn, or a glimpse of what might have been had he been named the orchestra's music director.
"It is a shame Fischer will not, in the coming years, be developing the kind of relationship with this orchestra that would allow them fully to realize their potential in this work," she wrote.
Photo: Péter Kollányi (MTI)
