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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-14 02:12:28
[…] finale (especially that passing tone, one of Beethoven’s best) was overshadowed only by Goode’s glorious slow movement, one of the highlights of the concert. The rustic and rambunctious start to the finale proper drove the rhythm from this moment to the close. All of the clarity and subtlety of the First Symphony remained after intermission for the Fifth, with the fitting additional shade of darkness and drama. Principal horn, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and flute (Zoltán Szőke, Nóra Salvi, Ákos Ács, Andrea Bressan, and Erika Sebők respectively), contributed extraordinary solo turns. Time stopped as it can only do in great Beethoven performances during the slow movement. The melody in the cellos and violas flowed warm, rich, and flawless; I’d never before heard it so beautiful. As soon as the brass burst forth to announce the glorious finale, dozens of local NEC students poured out of the wings to join the ensemble. […]
2012-08-27 13:27:14
Usher HallEven before they played a note, there were hints that the Budapest Festival Orchestra does things differently. The double basses lined up in the choir stalls high above the orchestra, miles away from the rest of the strings. Music director Iván Fischer, who co-founded the orchestra in 1983, personally tuned each section from the podium, leading them through simple chords like a kindly schoolmaster.The BFO began life as a festival band and still plays with staggering freshness and verve. Fischer's eccentricities are instantly vindicated by the sound he draws: the added height of the bass section gave the strings a gorgeous bottom-heaviness; the tuning trick made for absolute cohesion from the whole group. Their account of Mahler's Fifth Symphony was spacious and thrilling, sonorous and spontaneous, awesome in scale and packed with glittering detail. The first movement was nostalgic and unhurried, the second hot-blooded, the famous Adagietto beautifully still […]
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