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12 March 2024
Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week:

Marriner's Magical Journey Through the

Landscape of Beethoven's Symphonies

NORMAN LEBRECHT, 12.03.2024 7:00

This week, Norman Lebrecht, in his regular review, reviews 10 CDs – a
collection of Beethoven's symphonies conducted by Neville Marriner,
whose discography is said to be one of the most extensive in the world.
THEMES:NEVILLE MARRINERSEZTHE ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

Neville Marriner (source: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields)

When the Second World War broke out, the then sixteen-year-old conductor Neville
Marriner was called upon to play the violin in the London Symphony Orchestra. He
performed at the Proms with Henry Wood, and after the war he gave concerts under
the baton of Toscanini, Furtwängler, Karajan, Klemperer, Britten and Pierre Monteux,
who said he would make a good conductor. Much of what counts as conducting is
imitation and allusion – Marriner learned from the best.