| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Apr-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer make a legendary pairing in Birmingham |
 The Budapest Festival Orchestra are a relatively well-kept secret, although goodness knows why. Perhaps it is something to do with their young age (formed in 1983) or their somewhat utilitarian name. They were ranked number nine in a rather arbitrary Gramophone magazine survey of the best orchestras in the world, but on the evidence of this concert I would have had no quibbles if they had been placed in the top three.
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| 24-Apr-2013 Bridgewater Hall | Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer play Beethoven and Brahms in Manchester |
 Iván Fischer conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra in impassioned performances of Dohnányi, Beethoven and Brahms to an appreciative, if criminally small, audience in Manchester.
More than any other Music Director one could think of, Fischer has a large claim to the BFO being his orchestra. Since founding the orchestra in 1983, he has been its only chief and has guided it to wide acclaim. Many would question the value of orchestra league tables, but it must say something that such a youthful enterprise made its way to ninth in the world in one such table a couple of years ago.
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| 28-Mar-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The many faces of Christ: Hanno Müller-Brachmann stars in OSL's St Matthew Passion |
 In his biography of Richard Wagner, Michael Tanner writes that Tristan und Isolde is one of two great masterpieces that have the musical brilliance, the intellectual strength and the emotional power to convert you to its philosophical cause. The other, naturally, is the St Matthew Passion.
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| 26-Aug-2012 Usher Hall | Budapest Festival Orchestra in triumphant Bartók and Mahler |
| The Budapest Festival Orchestra has played in Edinburgh before to great critical acclaim. Consequently, it was only to be expected that their concert last Sunday would be well attended, despite a late change of soloist. In fact, it was a virtual sell-out and we were not disappointed.
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