R.I.P. Sir Neville

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Bert Guy
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2016/10/06 13:08:01 (permalink)

R.I.P. Sir Neville

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/arts/music/neville-marriner-prolific-musician-and-acclaimed-conductor-dies-at-92.html?action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
 
Marriner was a great artist. Interesting point in the article about how he was driven to conduct because he was a mediocre violinist. The performance he gets out of Iona Brown (and the Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields) in Lark Ascending is astonishing. Approaches perfection. A synaesthetic feast for the ears:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzONNtE_WqM
 
Marriner and his splendid ensemble recorded one of the greatest marriages of a masterpiece with a performance/recording ever. It sounds as though the entire ensemble had been playing this great composition for a long time and had internalized it to the point where it lives & becomes a breathing entity as it flows out of their collective mind. I have listened to this version of The Lark Ascending hundreds of times and I never fail to be inspired. (I could go on and on.)

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    mgh
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    Re: R.I.P. Sir Neville 2016/10/06 16:32:59 (permalink)
    He was certainly a great conductor and ahead of his time - period performances are now mainstream

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    Re: R.I.P. Sir Neville 2016/10/06 19:10:05 (permalink)
    RIP.
     
    By some strange coincidence, I've been listening to Marriner & Academy of St. Martin's Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Orchestral Suites - Violin Concertos every chance I get for the last week or so.
     
     

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    Re: R.I.P. Sir Neville 2016/10/07 00:09:22 (permalink)
    One of my first Classical CD's was of him conducting Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik.  RIP!

     
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    Re: R.I.P. Sir Neville 2016/10/07 20:23:34 (permalink)
    Rain
    RIP.
     
    By some strange coincidence, I've been listening to Marriner & Academy of St. Martin's Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Orchestral Suites - Violin Concertos every chance I get for the last week or so.
     
     


    Rain,
    I checked out the recordings you mentioned. Real good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
     
    Cheers,
     
    Bert

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