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Joszef Lendvay (son) and Joszef Csoci Lendvai (father) in full flight with Fischer & the BFO Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou I review...

The other day a fascinating CD landed on my desk. It's music by a composer who is also a well-known conductor - indeed, he'd probabl...

Here's my review of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer's "staged concert" of The Magic Flute the other nig...

The Budapest Festival Orchestra - which was in London yesterday to give a stunning performance of The Magic Flute (more of that shortly)...

As promised a while ago, here is the Director's Cut of my interview in Budapest with Iván Fischer, the founder and conductor of the Bud...

Here's my interview with the magician at the helm of the Budapest Festival Orchestra (and, of course, the Konzerthaus of Berlin, and mor...

More of a quick march than a dance, really, but I've just spent 24 hours in Budapest, where I went to meet a remarkable and highly creat...

Iván Fischer, founder and music director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, has a foundation which this month has been taking action to aid...

I've reviewed the second of the Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer Proms for The Arts Desk. Two Brahms symphonies, five stars. A...

After the first of two Proms by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, last night at the RAH, I'm pondering about what a great conductor can t...

Dear Manchester, do you have any idea how lucky you are having Gabor Takacs-Nagy aboard your very own Manchester Camerata ? Probably the g...

Woke up to news today that someone in Japan has invented a way to make violin strings out of spider webs. These are said to give "a sof...

I just found Ivan Fischer's video blog on the Budapest Festival Orchestra's website. Here he talks about the future of the symphony...

Stop-press news: I'm reliably informed that my novel HUNGARIAN DANCES  is to feature as one of Tasmin Little's  chosen books in the ...

Our host site was down all yesterday and there's a lot to catch up on now. (Is the John Lewis warranty system also powered by Blogger? T...