Ivan Fischer plays Mahler for fishes (get it?)
mainThe Budapest Festival Orchestra, unable to perform for a live audience, plays Mahler’s seventh symphony for an aquarium full of its conductor’s namesakes.
I recognise a couple of would-be critics in the tank. The video has just gone live on-line.
The next concert’s Bait-hoven.
Fabulous, thanks. And speaking of people in the tank: I am reminded – by the fish, obviously, not by the music-making – of Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. You know, that moment when Mr Creosote walks into the fancy restaurant…
Fischer translated as fisherman (the one who catches fishes) …
Ivan Fischer is one of the great Mahler conductors of our time and I love his sense of humour …
Antonius von Padua
Glenn Gould singing Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt to animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kR6RsV2iA
Then comes the Eelgar…
Ooh…Ugh! I just knew somebody would conger that up from somewhere…..
Samueel Barb-er
Arnold Bass
Goby Burbot
Frederick Discus
Joyce Di Dorado
Granville Haddock
Carl Orfe
Joseph Sucker
Sir Charles Mackerel
Cesar Koi
Johannes Breams
Anyone eelse?
Phenomenal. And a great man, too.
This is the guy to watch, a truly interesting conductor.
No worries about audience coughing or arriving late.
Des Ivan von Buda Fischpredigt
Spitzgoschete Hechte, die immerzu fechten…
Should have played 2nd symphony scherzo.
I guess the Mahler critic in me finds this a bit strange. For the first Nachtmusik (2nd movement) of his 7th symphony, Mahler spoke of his being inspired by Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” painting. Perhaps they were under a certain time restraint, but I find Fischer’s tempo rather quick for any real sense of mystery to set in – it’s a briskly moving night patrol. For this particular movement, I like Abbado’s 16 minute pacing. I don’t ‘get’ the fish thing, but to each their own.
Antonius Ivan der Dirigent
Die Konzert Halle findt ledig.
Er geht zu ein Fischglas
und Er spielte mit dem Orchester
I’d imagine the critics to be the stuffed shirts, I mean animals.
Very exciting. Great performance, though a little rough sometimes.. The fish were an excellent audience. Interesting that in the 4th movement (3rd here) the guitar and mandolin, though perfectly balanced, were rarely filmed. They deserve more. (and where is the 1st movement?)
What’s the hurry Ivan?
I believe Ivan wants to demonstrate that only humans have problems and couldn’t care less about what other creatures hear, feel and think.
We have completely lost contact to nature and also like to give nature the blame for our own problems (economy, globalisation, migration, religion, culture, science, medicine). COVID-19 is a good example…we are “at war” against nature.
Why not just accept that humans are part of nature like the fish can accept an incomplete version of Mahler’s 7th?
Mahler scaled down.
His recording of Mahler 7 was a drop in the ocean.
I thought it would be “S Anthony’s Sermon to the Fish”
Who is Ivan’s drug dealer? Does anybody have an address for a phone number? Whatever he’s on, you still conducts a good Mahler. I heard a rumor though, that if an orchestra player makes a mistake they “sleep with the fishes.”