Hello, I'm Krusty Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our castaway this week is the music director of the English National Opera, Mark Elder.

We're giving you eight discs, Mark. Would you prefer to have scores?

Yes, I suppose in a way I would. But you didn't give me the choice before the program started, really.

You haven't got the choice.

I know.

Scores don't broadcast terribly well.

No, I quite accept that, but if I were alone for a long time scores would be a real companion.

It perfect performances as far as you're concerned?

Yes and each time one looks at it perhaps a slightly different performance too.

Of course. What's the first disc you've chosen?

Well, I thought that the first disc might be a Mozart piano concerto.

Mozart's music has always been very close to me and the piano

concertos in their different ways make a link between purely instrumental

music and the Opera House and so often the piano comes across as an

operatic character.

Motzart seems to speak very personally through the medium of the piano.

And the one I've chosen is one of my great favorites,

the 17th piano concerto in G major. Oh, The The The Part of the first movement on Ljutard's piano concerto number 17 in G, Alfred Brindle, with the Academy of

St Martin in the fields directed by Neville Mariner.

Now you're a londiner? Yes I was brought up in London

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