Proms 63 & 64: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Budapest Festival Orchestra's two Proms with their music director Iván Fischer were poles apart in tone, though both reminded us of this extraordinary ensemble's apparently limitless ability to take us by surprise.First came an anniversary tribute to Mahler and Liszt that placed the latter's Totentanz and Mephisto Waltz No 1 alongside Mahler's First Symphony. Mephisto Waltz No 1, equating the erotic with the demonic, has rarely sounded quite so insistently sexual. T...

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