Mozart Symphonies: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Leoš Janáček – Glagolitic Mass (Česká filharmonie, Sir Charles Mackerras)

Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite – Proms 2009 

Leoš Janáček – Taras Bulba

 Edinburgh Music Review: Charles Mackerras and Edinburgh

2015 Biography

The most recent biography of Charles Mackerras, edited by Nigel Simeone and John Tyrrell, is available published by Boydell and Brewer.

“NIGEL SIMEONE ON CHARLES MACKERRAS”
Interview with biographer Nigel Simeone – Nov 2015
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

‘Kiri Sings Mozart’

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Recorded at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 1990. Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras conducting.

One of the most famous nights in Australian music occurred in September 1973 when Sir Charles Mackerras conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the first concert to be staged in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. In front of a packed, emotion-charged house, the great Australian conductor made a triumphant homecoming in an all-Wagner concert that sent the critics searching for superlatives.