Iván Fischer

Unlike Liszt's other works for piano and orchestra, this one is scored for only strings and piano and does not conform to sonata form, but is instead driven by narrative changes in mood and tempo throughout.

Here's a recording of the London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Ivan Fischer and piano soloist Jorge Bollé.

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by Franz Liszt, a work that uses the Dies Irae, a traditional Gregorian chant melody, which has been used by many composers, one of the more famous being in the Fifth Movement of the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.

We'll hear a recording of this by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ivan Fischer with piano soloist Jorge Bollet.

Thank you.

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People who have enough fucking money in their bank accounts, by the way.

People like Kirill Gerstein, Misha Maisky, Radek Babarak, Catherine Rudge, Vasily Petrenko, Anna Shelis, Kirill Petrenko, Leonidas Kavakos, Andras Schiff, Zubin Mehta, Daniele Rostoni, Ivan Fischer.

You're all scheduled to play this season in Israel.

It is not too late to grow some bollocks and stand up for what's right.

It's almost impossible to, to mess that one up.

The conductors that I worked with at Kent Opera, Roger Norrington, Ivan Fisher, they were a revelation.

They opened my eyes to the way music worked.

And then when The Turn of the Screw was on stage working, I thought, "Oh, I'm good.