Sir Charles Mackerras

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Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (/məˈkɛrəs/; 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera (and its predecessor) and Welsh National Opera and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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Discography

Album

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1986 Nutcracker Tchaikovsky; London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1986 Sullivan: Cello Concerto in D / Herbert: Cello Concerto no. 2 / Elgar: Romance Sullivan, Herbert, Elgar; Julian Lloyd Webber, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1988 Nutcracker (excerpts) Пётр Ильич Чайковский; London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 2
1990 Brigg Fair / North Country Sketches / The Walk to the Paradise Garden / In a Summer Garden Delius; Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1991 Bloch: Schelomo / Bruch: Kol Nidrei Bloch, Bruch; Ofra Harnoy, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1991 Piano Concertos nos. 19 & 23 / Rondo Mozart; John O'Conor, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1992 Violin Concerto / On Hearing the First Cuckoo In Spring / Summer Night on the River / Dance Rhapsodies Frederick Delius; Tasmin Little, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1993 Violin Concertos Bruch, Lalo, Vieuxtemps; Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta, Charles Mackerras 1
1994 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade for 13 winds, K. 361 / 370a "Gran Partita" (in B-flat major) Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1995 The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 10: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 / Konzertstück in F minor Carl Maria von Weber; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Nikolai Demidenko 1
1997 Symphony no. 1 / Academic Festival Overture Brahms; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1997 Symphony No. 2 / Variations on a Theme by Haydn Brahms; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1997 Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Brahms; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1999 Serenades no. 1 & no. 2 Brahms; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
2000 Symphony no. 3 / Symphonic Dances Sergei Rachmaninov; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
2004 Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste / Bartok: Divertimento / Kodaly: Dances of Galanta Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
2010 Symphonic Poems Dvořák; Sir Charles Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 1
— The Planets Gustav Holst; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1

Album + Compilation

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1993 Water Music Compilation Georg Friedrich Händel; Pražský komorní orchestr, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1994 Symphony No. 2 in D Major / Karelia Suite / Finlandia Compilation Sibelius; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1997 The Four Symphonies Compilation Brahms; Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
1999 Orchestral Works Compilation Delius; Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras 1
2004 Orchestral Masterpieces: Pulcinella / Violin Concerto / Concerto for Strings / Dunbarton Oaks / Petrouchka Compilation Igor Stravinsky; Australian Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Edmond de Stoutz, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras 1

Album + Live

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
2007 The Makropulos Case Live Leoš Janáček; English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Cheryl Barker 1
2010 BBC Music, Volume 18, Number 5: Symphony No. 4 / Konzertstück for Four Horns (BBC Philharmonic) Live Robert Schumann; BBC Philharmonic, David Pyatt, Michael Thompson, Martin Owen, Cormac Ó hAodaín, Sir Charles Mackerras, Gianandrea Noseda 1

Album + Soundtrack

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1992 The Mikado Soundtrack Gilbert & Sullivan; Orchestra & Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras 1

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