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Hallé: Huw Watkins album review – Covid-era commissions capture energy and hope after lockdown

Watkins’s symphony, fanfare and concerto make for a spirited showcase of the orchestra’s clean harmonies

The Guardian - UK

‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music

The Guardian - UK

A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling

The Guardian - UK

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BBCSO/Elder review – like a Klimt painting in sound

The final concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season brought us Franz Schreker’s sensual and elusive Chamber Symphony and Mahler’s intense Das Lied von der Erde

The Guardian - UK

Carmen review – Akhmetshina and Elder make this an outstanding evening

Damiano Michieletto’s staging gets its first revival with Aigul Akhmetshina returning to the title role with panache and conviction

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: for an utterly joyous hour, watch the best of this year’s Proms

From Mark Elder’s final performance with the Hallé to the Kanneh-Masons covering Bob Marley, relive all of this year’s most epic Proms. Plus: Funny Woman is back. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Meyerbeer: Le prophète review – wild operatic oddity is given a breathless ride

The composer’s 1849 work is one of extremes, but Mark Elder, the LSO and a top cast give as good as they get in this live recording

The Guardian - UK

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The week in classical: BBC Proms week one review – hallelujahs all round

First Night fireworks with Elim Chan and co, a triumphant farewell from Mark Elder, and a ravishing love triangle kicked off a re-energised Proms

The Guardian - UK

Prom 4: Hallé/Elder review – a farewell eclipsed by the quality of the music-making

Mark Elder has led the Hallé for 24 years, championing the company’s choirs, in great voice here in a striking James MacMillan work, and bringing cerebral discipline and striking emotional truth to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

The Guardian - UK

Prom 4: The Hallé/Mark Elder review: a rapturous reception for this great orchestra from Manchester

It made for a fine climax to its conductor’s distinguished tenure

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Rob Rinder is inside the UK’s most notorious prison

The criminal barrister presents an eye-opening documentary. Plus: a new series of cosy teatime drama McDonald & Dodds. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

We’re already paying tax on our state pensions

Brief letters: Rishi Sunak’s pension pledge | Poor immigration logic | Sir Mark Elder’s last hurrah | Reviving Cockney rhyming slang

The Guardian - UK

A fitting finale for Sir Mark Elder with the Hallé Orchestra

Brief letters: Final bow and bouquet | The Rakes: gentlemen players | Scottish football | Sunak’s plight | Farage’s backup plan

The Guardian - UK

Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 album review – warmth, refinement and conviction

These performances are as fine as any currently available on disc, and a testament to the deep musical relationship that Mark Elder’s has built over 24 years as director of the Hallé

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Hough/Hallé/Elder review – Americana, jazz and virtuosity in debut for piano concerto

Stephen Hough’s new, nostalgia-themed work enjoyed its European debut with Mark Elder and the Hallé very much on form in their final months together

The Guardian - UK

Simon Boccanegra review – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life

Opera Rara joined with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s opera

The Guardian - UK

Big Bruckner Weekend review – there’s no escaping the challenges of his music, as well as its pleasures

Back-to-back performances of the Austrian composer’s last three symphonies plus his ‘Great’ Mass and String Quintet celebrated Bruckner’s 200th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

National Youth Orchestra/Elder review – monumental Strauss sees young musicians scale the heights

Dani Howard’s Ascent put the NYO brass front and centre, while, under conductor Mark Elder, Smetana’s Má Vlast and the Alpine Symphony were both full of grandeur and intricate detail

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Classical home listening: Delius’s A Mass of Life; Thomas Weelkes: Gentleman Extraordinary

Mark Elder, the Bergen Philharmonic and co are powerful advocates for Delius’s epic choral work, while Irish vocal group Resurgam showcase the distinctive brilliance of Weelkes

The Independent UK

English National Opera cuts risk ‘killing off of art form’, warn prominent music directors

Former ENO conductors Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder and the Royal Opera House’s Sir Antonio Pappano said cuts would make company ‘an empty shell of its former self’

The Guardian - UK

Hallé/Elder review – enthralling vision of Mahler’s ninth

Opening his last season with the Manchester orchestra, Mark Elder’s reading of Mahler’s final completed symphony was full of individual character, drama and splendidly vulgar playing

The Guardian - UK

La Forza del Destino review – superb voices and slick dance routines for Loy’s reimagined Verdi

Christoph Loy’s 2019 staging staging feels more cogent in this, its first revival, and baritone Etienne Dupuis is stunning as Carlo

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16: Hallé/Elder – review

Jonathan Dove transforms Simon Mayo’s ripping yarn into an exhilarating instant classic; it’s Thebes by way of Port Talbot in Adele Thomas’s Glyndebourne debut; and all hail the Hallé

The Guardian - UK

Prom 16: Hallé/Elder review – orchestra and conductor seem to think, breathe and feel as one

Mark Elder marshals huge forces to bring compelling depths and power to Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in an unmissable performance

The Independent UK

Military duo team up to keep ex-services charity moving

Nick O’Neill and Mark Elder used to drive tank transporters during their army days and are now in charge of Erskine’s transport department.

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