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Mahler - Symphony no.7
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Label: Channel Classics
Cat No: CCSSA38019
Barcode: 0723385380191
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 15th March 2019
In a field graced by so many magnificent recordings of this hugely taxing symphony, where meticulous preparation must be the keynote, this has immediately become my ideal. ... [The finale] needs careful pacing, and Iván Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. 
every phrase moulded with care, each emotional nuance embraced with affection ... he makes me love it as much as he says he does
Iván Fischer, conducting his Budapest Festival Orchestra (Channel Classics), is an eloquent champion, celebrating the work’s eclecticism – cow bells, courtly dances, folk song – in a blaze of aural invention. His players, as ever, are lithe, spirited, virtuosic. 
Iván Fischer follows his revitalising Third with a similarly talented Seventh; as before, the engineering is first rate
In sorrow or joy, everything is richly textured, heralded from the start by a haunting tenor horn, the first of many gorgeously earthy wind colours from an orchestra and conductor who seem constitutionally unable to generate a boring sound. ... Whatever the music’s mood, I found Fischer’s reading utterly compelling and a spring tonic.
I honestly can’t remember hearing a performance of this extraordinary symphony that was so plainly in love with its ethos, its originality, its sonority. Iván Fischer reads the ‘small print’ of the score with such thoroughness that he makes most other readings feel like generalisations by comparison. It’s one of those performances that makes one think of the piece differently, and that in itself is cause for celebration and reassessment. … there is a joyousness about this account that tells you not just how much Iván Fischer loves this symphony but how he loves it unconditionally. 
