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12 April 2024
Michael White’s classical news: Sir Neville
Marriner; JW3 Centre concerts; pianist Bertrand
Chamayou
Friday, 12th April — By Michael White
Sir Neville Marriner [Richard Holt]
THERE was a time when they were never off the radio: you’d hear the music, then you’d hear the back-
announcement saying “That was the Academy of St Martin in the Fields… conducted by Sir Neville Marriner”.
Between them, Marriner and the Academy he founded in the 1950s made so many discs they were maybe the most
recorded partnership in history: a superstar brand. And when Marriner died in 2016, worldwide tributes poured in –
not just because he was a great conductor but because he managed to combine it with being a delightful, decent,
much-loved man. A rare achievement.
