The Beethoven we can’t live without
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
… Practical in rehearsal, unassuming on the night, Neville Marriner was underrated by critics who seek grand gestures as their reward for attendance. Working musicians, by contrast, recognised him as a colleague of uncommon sensitivity and unfailing humanity. The present 1980s set of Beethoven symphonies is proof of his rare combination of responsiveness and personal style.
With the self-selecting Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a bunch of musicians disgruntled with the other London orchestras, Marriner practised democracy in action and achieved a neat compromise between big-band bluster and period-instrument theories…
Read on here.
In The Critic here.
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