Every new release by Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for Channel Classics is something of an event. --Classics TodayIvan Fischer's new Rite of Spring is lean and hungry, razor-sharp... it is full of piercing, unfamiliar detail and accumulates tremendous weight.... Fischer's Firebird is achingly lyrical... --The GuardianThis is the first recorded performance of the Rite of Spring that makes me believe that the work could have caused that riot at its premiere in Paris in 1913. --Audiophile Audition