Sir Mark Elder opens up a selection of classical music from a conductor’s point of view, on BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music.
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’.
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