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Mahler Festival: Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer - Mahler's Symphony No. 2

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Sun, May 11, 2025, 11:00
'Mahler's beauty always hurts', conductor Iván Fischer said recently. Tonight he conducts his own Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2, full of passion, lyricism and brightly shining melodies. Mahler is in good hands with Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Fischer knows like no other how to get Mahler's music flowing, there is no composer he understands better. As early as 2006, Fischer and the orchestra recorded Mahler's Symphony No. 2. 'Impressive', wrote Gramophone.He who calls us gives... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Boedapest Festival Orkest
Groot Omroepkoor
Iván FischerConductor
Christiane KargSoprano
Anna Lucia RichterMezzo-Soprano

Program

Symphony No. 2 in c minor 'Resurrection'Gustav Mahler
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