Iván Fischer

Iván Fischer ( born January 20, 1951 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor.

Training

Iván Fischer first took piano and violin lessons and then switched to the cello. After studying composition in Budapest, he received his diploma in the conducting class of Hans Swarovsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. For two semesters, he worked as an assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

The first successes

After the success of the Rupert Foundation Conducting Competition of London in 1976, his international career began, he was invited by most British orchestras and was a regular guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. This he conducted in 1982 on a world tour. This was followed by guest appearances in many countries: in the USA, he debuted in 1983 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. That same year, Fischer returned to Budapest and, together with pianist Zoltán Kocsis, Budapest Festival Orchestra and has more than 20 years its musical director.

Conductorships

As a guest, he regularly conducts internationally important orchestras such as the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Fischer was particularly known for his interpretations of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Mahler and Bartók.

As an opera conductor Fischer has made ​​itself a name with the Mozart cycle at the Vienna State Opera. In addition, he has conducted opera productions in Zurich, London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm and Budapest.

With the season of 2012/13, Fischer was music director of the Berlin Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt and chief conductor of the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin.

Others

Fischer has founded together with the granddaughter of the Hungarian composer Gustav Mahler Society and is patron of the British Kodály Academy. His brother, Ádám Fischer is also a conductor.

At the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival 2007, which this year was below the national focus in Hungary, he rehearsed with the Orchestra Academy and studied Beethoven's 6th Symphony and the music of Béla Bartók The Wooden Prince dance pantomime one. In addition, Fischer has performed with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and gave together with violinists József Lendvay and József " Csócsi " Lenvay, and the cimbalom Oszkar Ökrös an insight into the influences of gypsy music to symphonic works. Besides Liszt and Brahms, Sarasate also was on the program.

Awards

Discography

The following list is not exhaustive:

  • Mozart: Symphony in G minor K. 990
  • Glinka: Rouslan and Ludmila - Overture
  • Mahler: Symphony no 5 - Adagietto
  • Brahms: Hungarian Dance no 1
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Boris Belkin ( violin)
  • Hungarian State Orchestra
  • Symphony No.. 5 in B flat major D. 485
  • Symphony No.. 4 in C minor D. 417 " Tragic "
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Concerto for Orchestra
  • Dance Suite
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Don Juan
  • Till Eulenspiegel
  • Death and Transfiguration
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • The Firebird Suite
  • Petrushka
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Dvorák: Cello Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Miklós Perényi (cello)
  • Psalmus Hungaricus
  • Marosszék Dances
  • Galánta Dances
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Andras Molnar (Tenor)
  • Állami Énekkar
  • Hungarian State Chorus
  • Bartók Béla Children's Chorus of Győr
  • Symphony no 4 "Italian "
  • Symphony no 5 " Reformation "
  • Hungarian State Orchestra
  • Missa Brevis K. 192
  • Vesperae solennes De Confessore K. 339
  • Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Zádori Mária (Soprano)
  • Paul Esswood (Alt )
  • Alexander Oliver (tenor )
  • László Polgár ( bass)
  • István Ella (organ)
  • Choir " Jenuesses Musicale "
  • Symphony No.. 39 in E flat major, K. 543
  • Symphony No.. 19 in E flat major, K. 132
  • Symphony No.. 26 in flat E major K. 184
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
  • Liszt: Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2
  • Dohnány: Variations on a Nursery Rhyme
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Zoltán Kocsis ( piano )
  • Hungarian Radio And Television Chorus
  • Ferenz Sapzon ( choirmaster )
  • Hungarian State Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • András Schiff (piano)
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Hans -Peter Bloch joke (Tenor)
  • Choir of the Hungarian Radio
  • The Wooden Prince
  • Dance Suite
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • The Miraculous Mandarin
  • Hungarian Peasant Songs
  • Roumanian Folk Dances
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Concerto for Orchestra
  • 3 Village Scenes
  • Kossuth
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Slovak Folk Ensemble Chorus
  • SLUK Slovakian Folk Ensemble Choir
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • József Lendvay Jr. ( violin)
  • József " Csócsi " Lendvay Sr. (violin)
  • Oszkar Ökrös ( cimbalom )
  • Legends - Miniatures
  • Nocturnes
  • Prague Waltzes
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy
  • Dvorák: Violin Concerto
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Akiko Suwanai (violin)
  • Ravel: La Valse
  • Stravinsky: Three movements from Petrushka
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Ádám Fellegi (piano)
  • Slavonic Dances Op 46
  • 8 Slavonic Dances, Op.72
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Andreas Schiff (piano)
  • Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op 95 " From the New World "
  • Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Symphony no 2
  • Vocalise no 14
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Symphony no 4
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • SLUK Slovakian Folk Ensemble Choir
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Lisa Milne
  • Birgit Remmert
  • Hungarian Radio Choir
  • Debussy: Solo Piano Music / Fantaisie
  • Ravel: Piano Concertos
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 6
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
  • Budapest Festival Orchestra
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