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Inside Music: Conductor Sir Mark Elder finds ecstasy and compassion in music

Conductor Sir Mark Elder finds ecstasy and compassion in music

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Conductor Sir Mark Elder finds ecstasy and compassion in music

Sir Mark Elder opens up a selection of classical music from a conductor’s point of view.

Sir Mark Elder opens up a selection of classical music from a conductor’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Sir Mark Elder has been music director of the Hallé Orchestra since 2000, and has conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies. 

Today, Sir Mark challenges you to conduct along with Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, and plays a passage from a Rossini opera that he thinks could be the starting point for a whole new Olympic discipline. 

He also recommends submitting to the emotional intensity of Wagner, and muses on the impact of listening to Mahler’s Third Symphony live for the first time - hearing the delicate lines of the orchestra evaporating at the end of the second movement ‘like blowing on a dandelion’. 

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside. 

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