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Mozart: Youth Symphonies, Volume 1.(Sound Recording Review)
Mozart: Youth Symphonies, Volume 1. Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. PentaTone Classics 5186 112.
When Sir Neville Marriner was asked to provide the music for the 1984 movie depiction of Mozart's life, Amadeus, there was good reason for the choice. These recordings are one of them.
In the early 1970s, Marriner was among the very first conductors to record Mozart's early symphonies, a startling and groundbreaking enterprise for the time. I suppose people had pretty much disposed of the composer's youthful writing in favor of the big later ones. Marriner showed the world their worth.
Now, the folks at PentaTone have unearthed the original master tapes for a number of these Marriner recordings that were originally done in the Quadraphonic format but never released that way. PentaTone remastered them from scratch on their two-layer, hybrid stereo/ multichannel SACD line, this first volume containing the Symphony in G, KV deest, and the Symphonies Nos. 7a, 12, and 18. Of the four, I must admit the two very earliest are charming but shallow; that is, they are tuneful and jaunty and sweet, but ...
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 1997 700+ words
...Concertos and other works. Pepe Romero, guitar;Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Philips...Romero, and accompanied by the ever-reliable Neville Marriner and his Academy. The Second Concerto is darker...
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Sir Neville Marriner has a reedy chirp, a trait of certain English voices that suggests endless optimism. The conductor, 77, sounds quite young...
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 1999 700+ words
...Bayerischen Rundfunks. Misha Dichter, piano; Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Philips...received such good treatment as with Misha Dichter and Sir Neville Marriner, and the sound here is the best of any in the set...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff August 27, 1987 700+ words
...or another of our chamber orchestras might investigate it. The Second Symphony, of course, is familiar, and Sir Neville Marriner approaches it in his usual spruce style. He is not with his usual band this time, but the Stuttgart Radio Symphony...
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 1998 700+ words
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Scottish Fantasy. Akiko Suwanai, violin; Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Philips 454 180-2. There have been so many new young violinists introduced in the last...
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- Magazine article from: National Review de Toledano, Ralph December 31, 1987 700+ words
...described as perhaps the grandest composition ever written for wind instruments--and it receives its due from Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, a partnership that has been giving record collectors consistently...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joseph McLellan March 1, 1988 700+ words
A battle has been raging in baroque music for some years, and Sir Neville Marriner, one of the world's leading baroque interpreters, has run up a white flag. "They've won," says Marriner, who has been...
- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Neville Marriner, Academy of St....
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John June 1, 1999 700+ words
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. London Penguin Classics 289 460 613-2. As you no doubt know, the PolyGram group...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mozart: Youth Symphonies, Volume 1.(Sound Recording Review)