Iván Fischer conducts Strauss and Mahler

“Mahler’s First Symphony is very close to me,” says Iván Fischer. “Perhaps because I hear in it a great deal of Mahler’s middle-class, assimilated Jewish background – from which I come myself.” He also conducts music by Mahler’s contemporary Richard Strauss: a selection of waltzes from Rosenkavalier and the Duet­ Concertino with clarinettist Wenzel Fuchs and bassoonist Stefan Schweigert, principal wind players with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

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Iván Fischer

Wenzel Fuchs

Stefan Schweigert

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