Budapest Festival Orchestra olv. Iván Fischer

The ‘Vier letzte Lieder’ are a moving climax to Strauss’ brilliant career as a composer and an acquiescent last farewell to life. Strauss here paints his glowing musical sunset in a sumptuous yet refined high-romantic idiom.
Parting and death are also the basic themes of Mahler’s ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’. As sensitive artists do, Mahler converted the break-up of his love affair with Johanna Richter into six poems, four of which he composed as songs. The typical romantic contrast of the unbearably tormented lover in an idyllic natural setting is only resolved when the protagonist lies down to an eternal sleep under a lime tree. And lastly, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is based on an orchestral song.
Although the charismatic and engaging Iván Fischer is a renowned polyglot, his native tongue ultimately turns out to be music. His ambitions with the Budapest Festival Orchestra go beyond the activities of a traditional orchestra. As a flexible entity that’s averse to routine, this orchestra and conductor are constantly reinventing themselves. When it comes to the duo of soloists, Fischer opts for the experience of the well-established soprano Miah Persson alongside the rising star Tassis Christoyannis. It promises to be a wonderful evening.
It’s the concert no one wants to miss.