Sir Neville Marriner conducts Haendel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Britten

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Label

Sir Neville Marriner conducts Haendel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Britten

Statement of responsibility

BBC, under licence to International Classical Artists Ltd. ; Rodney Greenberg, director

Title variation

Haendel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Britten

Contributor

• Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
• Marriner, Neville
• International Classical Artists, Ltd
• Greenberg, Rodney
• Rolfe Johnson, Anthony
• Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
• Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
• British Broadcasting Corporation

Arranger of music

• Marriner, Neville

Conductor

• Marriner, Neville

Film director

• Greenberg, Rodney

Performer

• Rolfe Johnson, Anthony
• Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Production company

• International Classical Artists, Ltd
• British Broadcasting Corporation

Subject

• Oratorios -- Excerpts
• Canons, fugues, etc. (String orchestra), Arranged
• Song cycles
• Songs (High voice) with string orchestra
• Orchestral music
• Symphonies

Genre

• Excerpts

Language

fre

Summary

Neville Marriner's friendship with the harpsichordist and musicologist Robert Thruston Dart, forged during the war years, proved decisive in the history of British music. They formed both a violin and harpsichord duo and the Jacobean Ensemble, igniting audience interest in their programmes of early and modern chamber music. During the Academy's formative years, Marriner directed from the leader's chair. The founder took conducting lessons with Pierre Monteux and increasingly occupied the podium as the group expanded from its original core of eleven string-players and harpsichordist. Marriner's impeccably clear beat and focus on rhythmic precison flowed from his uncompromising pursuit of perfection, not to mention long experience of decoding the spidery gestures of gerontic conductors from his seat in the London Symphony Orchestra. In this excerpt, as the work unfolds, Marriner's musicians transcend the composition's substantial surface difficulties, propelled by a potent mix of preparation and adrenalin-charged spontaneity to touch the sublime in Beethoven's score

Cataloging source

FRMTV

Characteristic

videorecording

Date of event

• 1974
• 1975
• 1983

Language note

The Britten sung in French

Other event information

• Recorded
• recorded
• recorded
• recorded

PerformerNote

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Place of event

Royal Albert Hall, London, Great Britain

Runtime

86

Technique

live action