Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review

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 verv...

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