Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra go from strength to strength. After winning the Gramophone Orchestral Award last year for the truly miraculous ditto Mandarin, they have been showered with further rave reviews for the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies. Sales are growing steadily as well, and this new, highly commercial title should prove the bestseller to date.

Brahms Hungarian Dances, performed by the BFO, would sound authentic anyway, but these famous pieces are here performed (many in new arrangements by Fischer himself) featuring Hungarian gipsy musicians (on violin and cimbalom) to give it a very special flavour.

A fun, exhilarating and virtuoso orchestral spectacular that'll become the benchmark recording of this popular repertoire. The digipak design, showing Maestro Fischer in acrobatic animation, captures the fun and spirit of this recording.
 

"The Budapest Festival Orchestra goes from strength to strength and is now arguably the country's leading orchestra."
The Times

"The conductor Iván Fischer has consciously set out to establish a world-class Hungarian orchestra. Judging by their performance last night (Liszt and Mahler) I'd say they were there already...a unanimity of purpose bound the players together."
The Evening Standard