The recordings of the four Brahms symphonies and other orchestral works released on CHANNEL CLASSICS between 2009 and 2021 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra are undoubtedly among the highlights of Brahms discography. Critics praised Fischer's meticulous articulation and phrasing everywhere, which creates fine contours, and his striving for audibility, which makes lively rhythmic structural details clear and yet leaves room for musical surprises, for example in the carefully crafted animation of secondary voices.
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