In-depth interviews with Iván Fischer are fairly rare; he sat for one such interview with Alinda Veiszer in 2018. Their relaxed and frank conversation covered topics such as coming to love composing as an adult; Hungarian public life; the responsibility and authenticity of artists; chess and bridge; Iván Fischer plays the sound of the Noh theater; the two contemplate the question of the poiesis of soccer and, of course, what leadership means from the perspective of a conductor. Click here to view the complete, outstanding interviewm (in Hungarian):

A video promoting Berlin, with Iván Fischer and Pál Dárdai, comes up in the conversation; the short film is still worth watching today. Berlin’s two Hungarian faces in 2018, in two and a half minutes.