BBC Proms 2018 Prom 54, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Or...

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 54, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform Enescu, Bartok and Mahler (320kbps .mp3)

Note: Prom 54 was broadcast after Prom 52. So far there is no Prom 53.

Live at BBC Proms: Budapest Festival Orchestra with Ivan Fischer and Anna Lucia Richter in Enescu, Bartok and Mahler

The intoxicating energy of their performances makes any appearance by Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra a highlight of the season. In the first of their two Proms together, they pair Mahler’s best-loved symphony – the vivacious Fourth, with its jingling sleighbells and child’s-eye vision of heaven – with two works exploring the unusual relationship between strings and percussion: Bartók’s dynamic Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Enescu’s Prélude à l’unisson, with its slow-build tension.

01. Enescu - Suite No. 1 – Prélude à l’unisson
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 54
02. Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
03. Mahler - Symphony No 4 in G major
03i. Introduction to Mahler’s Symphony No 4
04. Mozart, Vespers - Laudate Dominus (encore) (with Budapest Festival Orchestra as choir)

Anna Lucia Richter, soprano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor

05. BBC Proms 2018 Prom 54 Interval, Proms Plus.
An introduction to Mahler's 4th Symphony with musicologist Jeremy Barham and lecturer Laura Tunbridge. Presented by Martin Handley. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Broadcast: 22 August 2018, BBC Radio 3