Prom 54 – Ivan Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (1)

Part of the BBC Proms.

The intoxicating energy of their performances makes any appearance by Iv?n 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: Bart?k’s dynamic Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Enescu’s Pr?lude ? l’unisson, with its slow-build tension.