His ambitious complete Sullivan song project will soon be augmented by a third disc on the Chandos label. He began his career by accompanying such artists as Dame Janet Baker, Sir Peter Pears & Jean-Pierre Rampal. Solo recitals, all over the world, have particularly featured the music of Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Bax & Elgar: he has recorded all Elgar’s piano music, including his own reconstruction of the magnificent Concert Allegro of 1901, along with Karg-Elert’s transcriptions of the First Symphony & the Symphonic Study: Falstaff, and his own transcriptions of the Pomp & Circumstance Marches. His other concerto recordings include works by Lambert, Phillips, Horowitz & Arnell. He has recorded his own Piano Concerto in C with the BBC Concert Orchestra. ![]() ![]() ![]() A television programme entirely devoted to his work on the Elgar Piano Concerto, ending with a spectacular live performance of the whole work, has been shown frequently. Mark Wilde is a Professor Singing at London’s Royal Academy of Music and a Trustee of Waterperry Opera Festival.ĭavid Owen Norris, the first winner of the Gilmore Artist Award, has played concertos all over North America and Australia, along with several appearances in the BBC Proms. He went on to sing this role for Red Squirrel Opera at the 2021 Buxton Festival. Mark Wilde’s recording as Monsieur in Sir Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John Andrews was chosen by BBC Music Magazine as “Best Opera Recording of 2020,” by BBC Record Review as Record of the Week, as Editor’s Choice by Gramophone, as Critics’ Choice by Opera News, as Editor’s Choice by Gramophone and as a Sunday Times Album of the Week. His engagements have included performances with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Britten Sinfonia, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the Hanover Band, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Ural Philharmonic. Mark Wilde sang The Dream of Gerontius at the 27 th Liepaja International Stars Festival, Latvia, and appears regularly in concert. He has established a particularly close relationship with English Touring Opera, for whom he has sung the title role in Albert Herring, Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Johnny Inkslinger Paul Bunyan, Ugone Flavio, Tito La clemenza di Tito, Tamino The Magic Flute, Don Basilio The Marriage of Figaro, Farmer Bunce The Fantastic Mr Fox and The Fairy Queen. Sir Edward Elgar – A song selection to include:īorn in Scotland, Mark Wilde was a chorister at Dundee Cathedral before studying at the University of East Anglia and the Royal College of Music. ![]() Ian Venables – ‘The Last Invocation’ – a cycle of four settings to poems by Walt Whitman (WORLD PREMIERE) (Novello 1897)įair is my love Now is my Chloris Heigh ho! Huntingdon Hall Song Recital: From Elgar to Venables Mark Wilde – tenorīook by phone via Worcester Theatres – 01905 611 427 Programmeīattisson Haynes – Set one of ‘Elizabethan’ lyrics.
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