Hallé/Elder review – breathtaking Delius from a passionate advocate
Elder brought Delius’s numinous Song of the High Hills to a suitably visionary summit
Halle/Elder review – a fateful journey with Shostakovich
Mark Elder makes the composer’s life flash before the audience’s eyes in a disquieting yet compelling programme that dwells on mortality, with outstanding support from Mahler and Roderick Williams
L’Etoile review – where opera meets panto
Chabrier’s decorous score is at odds with the lumbering absurdity of the plot of L’Etoile
L’Étoile review – a clumsy staging but the music is a gem
Focus is lost with the transformation of Emmanuel Chabrier’s sexy, witty opéra bouffe into an extravagant postmodern fantasy
Hallé/Elder review – an exhilarating Russian programme
The orchestra opened its new season with energetic and beguiling readings of works by Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov
Leeds International Piano competition final – first prize for Anna Tcybuleva, not the obvious choice
The 25-year-old Russian pianist was awarded the £20,000 prize, but her playing was not the evening’s most musical
Mahler: Symphony No 9 CD review – moments of magnificence but it never quite coheres
Mark Elder’s first Mahler recording with the Hallé can’t quite capture his problematic final symphony – perhaps an impossible task
LSO/Elder review – Tchaikovsky without histrionics and steely Berlioz
Mark Elder’s Pathétique made a powerful case for the work’s place in the Romantic canon while Susan Graham brought superb control to Les Nuits d’Été, writes Andrew Clements
Hallé/Elder review – remarkable in concept and execution
Mark Elder masterminds a profound performance marking the centenary of the first world war, writes Alfred Hickling
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony; Tallis Fantasia, etc CD review – a glorious account
The troubled, sullied world that the music explores is recreated by Elder and the Hallé without ever becoming overwrought, writes Andrew Clements
Les Martyrs review – no blood, but plenty of gutsy singing
The OAE and a cast in impressive voice conveyed the drama of the Roman arena in a concert outing of Donizetti’s forgotten grand opera, writes Erica Jeal
Hallé/Elder review – Paul Lewis weighs his phrases carefully
Mark Elder conducts pianist Paul Lewis and the Hallé Orchestra in a consummate performance of Brahms and Dvořák, writes Alfred Hickling
LSO/Mark Elder review – a matchless Rosenkavalier
Soloists Sarah Connolly, Anne Schwanewilms and Lucy Crowe brought sensitivity and poise to Strauss's opera, and the LSO gave full value to the score's heady harmonic surges and misty-eyed nostalgia, writes George Hall
LSO/Mark Elder/Imogen Cooper review – a breath of fresh air for Strauss’s 150th anniversary
Mark Elder oversees a wonderful performance of the rarely heard tone poem Macbeth, writes Guy Dammann
Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder – review
This was the first time Mark Elder had conducted Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony, which made the completeness of his interpretation all the more startling, writes Tim Ashley