Sir Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; (17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an American-born 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. He also specialized in Czech music as a whole, producing many recordings for the Czech label Supraphon.

Berlioz: Marche troyenne & Le carnaval romain - Russian Enchantments: Waltz of the Flowers, Flight of the Bumblebee, Dance of the Tumblers... - 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Chopin: Les sylphides - Strauss: Graduation Ball - Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours - 2026-03-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3 - 2026-03-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart: Les petits riens, Divertimento No. 1 & German Dances - 2026-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 31, The Tinker's Wedding - 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Charles Mackerras Conducts Dvořák, Smetana, Brahms, Bartók & Enesco (Remastered) - 2026-02-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Janáček: Věc Makropulos, JW I/10 & Zápisník zmizelého, JW V/12 (Sung in English) [Live] - 2025-11-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - British Composers. Elgar, Holst, Bax, Delius... - 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Charles Mackerras conducts Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Live) - 2024-03-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Dawn on the Moskva River - 2022-02-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - 1762 Edition with 1774 Paris Revisions - 2021-12-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Milestones of Legends: RPO Royal Conductors, Vol. 2 - 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Greatest Last Night of the Proms, Vol. 2 - 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Pineapple Poll - 2021-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Kaleidoscope - 2018-10-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Highlights of Charles Mackerras - 2017-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44 (Sung in French) [Live Recordings 1981] - 2014-10-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Sullivan & Mackerras: Pineapple Poll Ballet - 2014-10-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Brahms & Bruch: Violin Concertos - 2014-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Loud - 2014-08-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: 40th Anniversary Edition - 2014-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Mackerras Conducts: Sibelius & Grieg - 2014-01-20T00:00:00.000000Z

R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegel - 2012-09-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 - 2012-04-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks Concerto - A Due Cori in F Major (Concerto No. 2 for Two Wind Bands and Strings) (Remastered) - 2011-12-10T00:00:00.000000Z