Mark Elder

Huw Watkins: Fanfare; Symphony No. 2; Concerto For Orchestra

Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Orchestral Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2026 Shortlist, Contemporary

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Original 1857 version)

Germán Enrique Alcántara (Simon Boccanegra), Eri Nakamura (Maria/Amelia), William Thomas (Fiesco), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Gabriele Adorno), Sergio Vitale (Paolo Albiani) The Hallé, Chorus of Opera North, RNCM Opera Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 21st March 2025
Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Recording Debut of the Year - Germán Enrique Alcántara
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Opera
The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'

Katherine Broderick (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) Hallé, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Ad Solem, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2015
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral

Special offer. Meyerbeer: Le Prophète

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Katarina Dalayman (Brünnhilde), Lars Cleveman (Siegfried), Peter Coleman-Wright (Gunther), Attila Jun (Hagen), Nancy Gustafson (Gutrune), Susan Bickley (Waltraute), Andrew Shore (Alberich) The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Finalist
Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Opera

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John Osborn (Jean de Leyde), Elizabeth DeShong (Fidès), Mané Galoyan (Berthe), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Count Oberthal) London Symphony Orchestra, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, Lyon Opera Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2024
BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera

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A Shropshire Lad | English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams (baritone), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra

Elgar: The Apostles, Op. 49

Rebecca Evans (The Angel Gabriel/The Blessed Virgin Mary), Alice Coote (Mary Magdalene/Narrator 2), Paul Groves (Narrator 1/John), Jacques Imbrailo (Jesus), David Kempster (Peter) & Brindley Sherratt (Judas) Hallé & Hallé Youth Choir & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Choral & Song Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Choral
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Recording of the Year & Choral Award Winner

Puccini: Le Willis

Ermonela Jaho (Anna), Arsen Soghomonyan (Roberto), Brian Mulligan (Guglielmo) Opera Rara Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Opera Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Opera
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera

CD: $19.00

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38

Paul Groves (Gerontius), Alice Coote (Angel), Bryn Terfel (Priest/Angel of the Agony) Halle, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Sir Mark Elder

Penguin Guide, Rosette
Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Choral
Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended

Lise Davidsen: Beethoven - Wagner - Verdi

Lise Davidsen (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd April 2021
BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Opera Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal

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Rossini: Semiramide

Albina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 7th September 2018
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Recording of the Month
Record Review, 6th October 2018, Recording of the Week
BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
The Times Records of the Year, 2018
Opera, January 2019, Disc of the Month
The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (19th century)
Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera

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Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

Sarah Fox (soprano) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the month
Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral

Elgar: Violin Concerto

Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Concerto

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English Spring

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Orchestral
Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice

Wagner: Die Walküre

Stig Andersen (Siegmund), Yvonne Howard (Sieglinde), Clive Bayley (Hunding), Egils Silins (Wotan), Susan Bullock (Brünnhilde), Susan Bickley (Fricka) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Opera Choice
Opera, September 2012, Recording of the Month

4 CDs: $32.75

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2013
Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice

Donizetti: L’Ange de Nisida | Recorded live at Royal Opera House, London, on 18 and 21 July 2018

Joyce El-Khoury (Countess Sylvia de Linarès), David Junghoon Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Laurent Naouri (Don Gaspar), Vito Priante (Don Fernand d’Aragon), Evgeny Stavinsky (The Monk / Father Superior) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd March 2019
Record Review, 4th May 2019, Record of the Week
BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Opera Choice
Opera, August 2019, Disc of the Month
Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Découverte
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera

Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51

Claire Rutter (The Blessed Virgin Mary), Susan Bickley (Mary Magdalene), John Hudson (St. John), Iain Paterson (St. Peter) Hallé & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Choral

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Samuel Youn (Alberich), Iain Paterson (Wotan), Susan Bickley (Fricka), Emma Bell (Freia), Reinhard Hagen (Fasolt), Clive Bayley (Fafner), David Stout (Donner), David Butt Philip (Froh), Will Hartmann (Loge), Nicky Spence (Mime) & Susanne Resmark (Erda) The Halle, Sir Mark Elder

Record Review, 2nd June 2018, Recording of the Week
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018

3 CDs: $23.50

Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suites | & other works

Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018

Special offer. Delius: A Mass of Life

Roderick Williams (baritone), Gemma Summerfield (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 24th November 2023
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Choral
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024

2 CDs: Original price $23.25 Reduced $18.83

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Orchestral Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017

Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita

Stephen Hough (piano), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week, 7th March 2025
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025

Vinyl Record: $44.75

Delius: Sea Drift & Cynara

Roderick Williams (baritone) Hallé & Hallé Choir & Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Choral

Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' & Symphony No. 9

Hallé Orchestra, Sopranos and Altos of the Hallé Choir, Mark Elder, Matthew Hamilton

Record Review, 4th June 2022, Record of the Week

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Donizetti: Les Martyrs

Michael Spyres (Polyeucte), Joyce El-Khoury (Pauline), David Kempster (Sévère), Brindley Sherratt (Félix), Clive Bayley (Callisthènes), Wynne Evans (Néarque) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 4th May 2015
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
Opera, June 2015, Recording of the Month

Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix

Eglise Gutiérrez (Linda), Ludovic Tézier (Antonio), Stephen Costello (Carlo), Marianna Pizzolato (Pierotto), Alessandro Corbelli (Marchese de Boisfleury), Bálint Szabó, Elizabeth Sikora (Maddalena), Luciano Botelho (Intendant) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Opera Finalist
BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
Opera, August 2011, Recording of the Month

3 CDs: $42.50

Donizetti: Il Paria

Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 15th January 2021
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera

2 CDs: $32.00

Elgar: Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2

Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Elgar: Sea Pictures & Pomp and Circumstance Marches

Alice Coote (mezzo soprano) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

Wagner: Siegfried

Simon O’Neill (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Iain Paterson (The Wanderer), Martin Winkler (Alberich), Clive Bayley (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Woodbird), Anna Larsson (Erda), Rachel Nicholls (Brünnhilde) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice

4 CDs: $32.75

English Landscapes

Lyn Fletcher (violin) Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Mark Elder

Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice

The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)

Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne

Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice

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Gounod: La Colombe

Erin Morley (Sylvie), Javier Camarena (Horace), Michèle Losier (Mazet), Laurent Naouri (Maître Jean) Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 30th October 2015
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015

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Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe

Angela Meade (Hélène d’Egmont), Michael Spyres (Henri de Bruges), Laurent Naouri (Le Duc d'Albe), Gianluca Buratto (Daniel Brauer), David Stout (Sandoval), Trystan Llyr Griffiths (Carlos), Robin Tritschler (Balbuena), Dawid Kimberg (Un Tavernier) Hallé & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Presto Recording of the Week, 26th February 2016
Opera, May 2016, Recording of the Month

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Elgar: Symphony No. 1

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice

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Elgar: Enigma Variations

Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Wagner: Lohengrin

Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Katarina Dalayman (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Friedrich von Telramund), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich der Vogler) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Dutch National Opera Chorus, Mark Elder

Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
Record Review, 6th May 2017, Recording of the Week

3 SACDs: $25.75

Debussy: Images & Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice

James MacMillan: Christmas Oratorio

Lucy Crowe (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder

Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Contemporary

2 CDs: $17.50

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Elgar: Oratorios | The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles & The Kingdom

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

6 CDs: $43.00

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Elgar: A Self-Portrait

Jane Irwin (mezzo soprano) Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Chorus, Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Editor's Choice

Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel

Neal Davies (baritone), Darius Battiwalla, David Adams, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Orchestral Choice

Special offer. Matthews - Horn Concerto & Alphabicycle Order

Britten: Billy Budd

John Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere), Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Phillip Ens (Claggart), Iain Paterson (Mr Redburn), Matthew Rose (Mr Flint), Darren Jeffery (Lieutenant Ratcliffe), Alasdair Elliott (Red Whiskers), John Moore (Donald), Jeremy White (Dansker), Ben Johnson (Novice), Colin Judson (Squeak) & Richard Mosley-Evans (Bosun) The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor) & Michael Grandage (director)

Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2011
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Finalist
BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, DVD Choice

2 DVD Videos: $43.25

Richard Watkins (horn), Henry Goodman (narrator) Halle, Children’s Choir (Hallé Youth Choir & Cantores Roborienses), Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner

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Wagner: Parsifal

Lars Cleveman (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Sir John Tomlinson (Gurnemanz), Detlef Roth (Amfortas), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Reinhard Hagen (Titurel) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

4 CDs: $32.75

Debussy/Matthews - Complete Preludes

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

2 CDs: $16.75

Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies

Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

5 CDs: $43.00

Richard Strauss

Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice

For the fallen: Elgar & Bax

Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Joshua Ellicott (narrator), Jennifer France (soprano), Madeleine Shaw (mezzo) Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder

Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral

Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi

Nicole Cabell (Imelda), James Westman (Bonifacio Geremei), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), Frank Lopardo (Orlando Lambertazzi), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo) Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Finalist

Helen Grime: Night Songs

Lynsey Marsh (clarinet) Hallé & Hallé Soloists, Sir Mark Elder & Jamie Phillips

Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice

CD: $17.75

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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Orchestral Choice

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps

Henry Goodman (narrator) Hallé Orchestra & Chorus, Mark Elder

Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year

Offenbach: Fantasio

Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae & Russell Braun Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Opera, December 2014, Recording of the Month

Donizetti: Belisario

Nicola Alaimo (Belisario), Joyce El-Khoury (Antonina), Camilla Roberts (Irene), Russell Thomas (Alamiro), Alastair Miles (Giustiniano), Julia Sporsen (Eudora), Peter Hoare (Eutropio), Edward Price (Eusebio), MIchael Bundy (Ottario), Darren Jeffery (Centurione) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, Opera Choice

English Rhapsody - Delius & Butterworth

James Gilchrist (tenor) Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

Hallé, Mark Elder