The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) was founded in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis with the ambition to share music of the highest quality.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Brahms deliberately limited his orchestral forces to those of Beethoven and Schubert, choosing not to stretch musical boundaries like Berlioz, Liszt, or Wagner.
Performer Biography
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) is rated among the top ten orchestras in the world and regularly performs at major international concert venues.
Compositional Technique
Brahms's Third Symphony contains a personal motto, 'Frei aber froh!' (free but happy!), expressed through the F-A-F motif, a response to his friend Joseph Joachim's F-A-E (free but lonely).
Performer Biography
Iván Fischer, the conductor, is the Founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and an honorary conductor of Berlin's Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester.
Composition History
Brahms, primarily a chamber music composer, only ventured into orchestral works later in his career, composing his First Symphony at age forty.
Performer Biography
Iván Fischer, the conductor, has also gained a reputation as a composer, with his works performed in multiple countries.
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