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Mark Elder may be a fine operatic conductor, but his recordings of symphonic music have been far less impressive. Here’s a case in point. Vaughan
With Warner set to issue a big Barbirolli box containing
Mark Elder and the Hallé complete their Wagner Ring Cycle with Siegfried, which, like its predecessors, stems from concert performances in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
I haven’t heard a Sibelius Fifth this dull since Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony on a Vanguard LP, which was my first, nearly ruinous
The Fourth and the Sixth are the most dramatic and violent of Vaughan Williams’ nine symphonies, yet somehow Mark Elder manages to render them both
At last, BBC Classics has unearthed one of the rarest
It is ironic that the most famous—indeed, only famous—moment from this opera, the tenor aria “Angelo casto e bel”, was not composed by Donizetti. In
This series has been inconsistent, but these are good performances. In the Fifth Symphony, Elder adopts brisk tempos that serve the piece well. The music
Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony has turned out to be a tricky work to conduct and record. Mark Elder hasn’t quite gotten the pacing right, or
British conductor Leslie Heward died of tuberculosis just a few
