Ivan Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1 & 5 AEC Music together with a degree of

together with a degree of astonishment that these compositions are not better known'

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Ivan Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1 & 5 AEC Music together with a degree ofIvn Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5. The first, though rooted in his classical examples of Haydn and Mozart, was nothing less than a turning point in the symphonic tradition. It can be seen as a fitting farewell to the eighteenth century, as an exploration of new horizons, and as an energetic statement conceived to surpass his esteemed predecessors. The fifth is the ultimate proof of Beethoven's