SIR MARK ELDER

Sir Mark Elder is part of the list of regular conductors invited by Les Arts. After his outstanding version of Strauss’ Heldenleben at the helm of the OCV, on this occasion the British maestro is offering us Mahler: the long Adagio from his unfinished 10th Symphony, the composer's final farewell to later romanticism, to his exciting and particular musical universe of contrasting passages of touching calm and orchestral climax that illustrate states of serenity, anguish, uncertainty or pain of the composer and human beings in general. And there is Shostakovich, heir to Mahler's orchestral architecture, who displays his intense emotional charge in the 4th Symphony, a masterpiece of colossal dimensions, both in duration and in terms of orchestral requirements, with more than a hundred musicians.