Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Ádám Fischer ****
Royal Festival Hall, 27th February 2018
Two years ago, when I told Ádám Fischer that I owned his recorded cycle of the complete Haydn symphonies, he chuckled and apologised, explaining that he didn’t like the first 40 or 50 he recorded with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra in Eisenstadt’s Esterházy Palace. “I would do them differently today,” he confessed. Here was chance to put that to the test in a terrific programme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment concluding with Haydn’s no. 103. What a difference three decades make.
Ádám Fischer
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