Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra led an illuminating journey through one of Mahler’s less heard symphonies at Carnegie Hall. By Anastasia Tsioulcas Lincoln Center’s summer festival ...

Jeff Spurgeon: The following program was previously recorded. There are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, the subway, a taxi, a walk down 57th street. You've just found another way to get to ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Budapest Festival Orchestra wants its audience back. The prestigious orchestra, led by renowned composer Iván Fischer, took to the streets with that message: Five members ...

Iván Fischer paced the manic opening more slowly than you’d expect, but he shaped the unfolding drama with masterful edge, reminding us that this is no mere orchestral showpiece but a story with a ...

A choral work was the best piece on the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s program at the Kennedy Center on Monday night. It wasn’t on the program, but an encore — and it was sung not by a professional ...

It takes quite some performance to overcome the seeming familiarity of Beethoven’s Eroica, and yet Iván Fischer and his Budapest orchestra achieved it. The power and the clarity of every gesture from ...

Maestro Iván Fischer led The Budapest Festival Orchestra in a thrilling all-Dvořák program at David Geffen Hall Sunday including an encore of Braham's Hungarian Dance No. 5. Maestro Fischer announced ...

Iván Fischer plays by his own rules. The Hungarian maestro has not been shy about criticizing the hidebound American orchestra, preferring the freedoms he enjoys in Europe. In a loss that still stings ...