Mahler, Symphony No 3 in D Minor: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

Symphony Hall, Birmingham: No matter how good the CD and your hi-fi system, there are some works that cannot compare to a live performance. Mahler’s Symphony No 3 is one of those and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under founder Iván Fischer demonstrated the fact perfectly at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on Oct 7th 2008, in their third and final concert of their brief English tour. The monumental work received a monumental delivery.