London Symphony Orchestra/Elder
(LSO Live)
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 British conductor Mark Elder, celebrated for his exhaustive understanding of orchestral repertoire, has just ended his 24-year tenure with the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester. His reputation as an opera conductor goes back much further, to his days as music director (1979-93) of English National Opera – now seen as a golden era – as well as for his operatic work elsewhere.
As an advocate for an opera you did not know you needed to hear, Elder is unrivalled. The work in question is Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, in a live recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, from last year’s Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with exciting soloists and the expert Lyon Opera chorus.
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