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The French daily Le Figaro praised the orchestra and Fischer for bringing back the poetry to Mahler's music.
The critic Christian Merlin wrote that the conductor Iván Fischer not only gave a passionate interpretation of the work, but also lent it a style that everyone thought had been forgotten. In recent years, conductors have approached Mahler's symphonies with a view to the spectacular, the intellectual or the emotional. But Fischer returned to poetry, making the performance "insanely great", the critic wrote.
"The first movement of Symphony 3 is as long as the entire 5th of Beethoven, and the Hungarian Ivan Fischer takes his time, but without being static, he creates a wonderfully evocative atmosphere. The Budapest Festival Orchestra gives Mahler back his Central European colours, with soloists who are musicians before being virtuosos: the oboist, the trumpet player and the trombonist play their instruments as never heard before, not to mention the French horn player, who is a real poet behind the scenes," Le Figaro said.
Source: Hungarian New Agency (MTI)
Photo: Péter Kollányi (MTI)
