Budapest Festival Orchestra / Alina Ibragimova / Ivan Fischer

"An overwhelming piece of music with extreme emotions, phenomenally crafted, beautiful, wild, and very erotic," raved the British Guardian when the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with its founder and chief conductor Iván Fischer, released a recording of Richard Strauss's "Joseph's Legend" in 2018. Indeed, the story of the pious Joseph, who is first seduced and then coldly betrayed by the wife of the Egyptian court official Potiphar in the palace, l...