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The critic Tim Ashley called the orchestra?s playing ?exceptional? and offered kudos for a ?discreet? radicalism heard in the ensemble?s performance of Rimsky-Korsakov?s Scheherazade.
?Rimsky's great evocation of The Thousand and One Nights is usually treated as an extrovert orchestral showstopper. Fischer, in contrast, turns it in upon itself in order to emphasise its mystery and wonder,? he said.
Ashley said the orchestra?s performance of Brahms? Tragic Overture ?attained often alarming levels of intensity?, adding that conductor Iván Fischer ?teased out the beauties? of Lalo?s Symphonie Espagnole.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / The Guardian
