Latest News: Classical, Mark Elder (conductor)
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder and Roderick Williams on Delius's A Mass of Life 31st October 2024
The conductor and baritone reflect on their recording of Delius's Nietzsche-inspired Mass (made in Bergen following two live performances and released on LAWO last year), which was a finalist at this year's Gramophone Awards.
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Recording of the Week,
Meyerbeer's Le prophète from Mark Elder and the London Symphony Orchestra 2nd July 2024
This weird and wonderful opera about a Flanders innkeeper who is radicalised into religious extremism really catches fire on a live recording from last year's Aix-en-Provence Festival, with the London Symphony Orchestra on barnstorming form and American tenor John Osborn at the top of his game in the demanding title-role.
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Recording of the Week,
Delius's A Mass of Life from Sir Mark Elder and the Bergen Philharmonic 24th November 2023
Elder's beautifully-judged approach to pacing and balance makes the strongest case possible for a score which he describes as 'Delius's magnum opus', aided by Roderick Williams on typically eloquent form in the huge central role of Zarathustra.
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's Il Paria from Opera Rara 15th January 2021
Sir Mark Elder conducts a scintillating account of Donizetti's 1829 opera about religious persecution in sixteenth-century India, starring Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, and Misha Kiria.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Debussy 16th July 2020
In the wake of his recording of Images and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune with the Hallé, the conductor talks to Katherine about his relationship with Debussy's music, and Colin Matthews's evocative orchestrations of the piano Préludes.
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Recording of the Week,
Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida 22nd March 2019
Sir Mark Elder conducts the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera semiseria from 1839, composed for a theatre which closed down before the opening night, but subsequently heavily revised as La favorite.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida 21st March 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Donizetti’s 1839 opera, released tomorrow on Opera Rara with Joyce El-Khoury in the title-role.
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Recording of the Week,
Rossini's Semiramide from Mark Elder 7th September 2018
Rossini's final Italian opera seria receives a taut, compelling reading on period instruments in an interpretation which plays up its baroque pedigree to great effect.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe 26th February 2016
Katherine enjoys Donizetti's Flanders-set epic Le Duc d'Albe, conducted by Mark Elder.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Gounod's La Colombe 30th October 2015
Katherine listens to Gounod's charming comic opera, with farce and avian nonsense aplenty.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony 4th September 2015
David listens to Mark Elder's new account of Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony, with Roderick Williams, Katherine Broderick and the Hallé.
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Recording of the Week,
Mark Elder conducts Donizetti's Les Martyrs 4th May 2015
Katherine listens to the first ever complete recording of Donizetti's opera.
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Interview,
Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's Les Martyrs 3rd April 2015
Ahead of Opera Rara's release of the work's premiere recording next month, Katherine talks to the British conductor about Donizetti's Parisian breakthrough.
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Recording of the Week,
Vaughan Williams from the Hallé and Mark Elder 25th February 2013
Following a splendid London Symphony last year, Elder and his Manchester orchestra continue a cycle which is shaping up to be one of the finest modern sets on disc with magnificent accounts of the Fifth and Eighth symphonies, with the Hallé’s horns emerging as first among equals.
