Despite her international reputation, however, in comparison with other pianists of her generation she is probably the least represented on disc. This is mainly due to her distaste for the recording process - she preferred the freedom and spontaneity of live performances. As Jonathan Summers describes in his booklet notes, Fischer was in London in March 1975 to give a recital in the Queen Elizabeth Hall but agreed to record her repertoire for the BBC prior to the concert as was common practice at the time, resulting in long takes as if in performance. Annie Fischer is heard here as she would have wanted - live and caught on the wing, making this recording a very valuable addition to her discography.

Bryce Morrison, the celebrated critic and authority on piano music, described the pre-eminent Hungarian pianist as follows: ‘Annie Fischer was among the greatest and most richly comprehensive of all pianists’. The distinguished Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, notoriously critical, described her as ‘an artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and with genuine profundity’.