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Neville Marriner’s centenary

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For eternity, the English conductor Neville Marriner will be the musician
associated with the film Amadeus by Milos Forman, released on screens forty
years ago. Mozart occupies an important part of the career of this prolific
musician, who died in 2016 and who would have been 100 years old on April 15.
For the occasion, Warner brings together all his recordings, while Decca
publishes a complete Beethoven never before compiled as such.

Publishing “all of Neville Marriner” is impossible, because the conductor, born
April 15, 1924 in Lincoln, England, will have zealously accompanied on a number
of labels two of the great changes in musical recording: the stereo LP and the
period the most spectacular on the compact disc.

Experience

Neville Marriner is, among conductors, undoubtedly one of the record holders of
the recording. We place him on a par with Herbert von Karajan. But Antal Dorati
was known to have recorded more than Karajan and we must not forget Eugene
Ormandy. With Marriner, Dorati, Ormandy and Karajan, we undoubtedly have
the leading quartet.

As we have already mentioned in The duty, Neville Marriner is part of Antal
Dorati’s discographic saga. Marriner was lead second violinist of the London