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Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Rossini: Overtures (2024)

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Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Rossini: Overtures (2024)

Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Rossini: Overtures (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 144 Mb | 01:00:49
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Warner Classics is continuing Sir Neville Marriner’s centenary celebrations, and with it comes a wonderful re-release in the form of the irresistible collection of Rossini overtures, from Marriner's very first staged opera La cambiale di matrimonio to the famous William Tell and The Barber of Seville.

Kathleen Battle, Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Handel: Arias (2024)

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Kathleen Battle, Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Handel: Arias (2024)

Kathleen Battle, Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Handel: Arias (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 222 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 Mb | 00:58:52
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

For this wonderful recital finally making is digital debut, Kathleen Battle made a beautiful selection of Handel arias excerpted from its most famous operas (Alcina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto), oratorios (Solomon, Messiah) and masques (Acis and Galatea). It is witfully accompanied by Neville Marriner’s Academy, who provides an ideal backdrop in which Battle’s voice can express all its charm and virtuosity. This album is definitely a highlight of our Neville Marriner centenary retrospective!

Rudolf Buchbinder, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 27 (2024)

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Rudolf Buchbinder, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 27 (2024)

Rudolf Buchbinder, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 27 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 232 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 Mb | 01:03:07
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

This is a summit meeting in these Mozart late piano concertos between two specialists of the Classical era!

Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146 & Magnificat, H. 74 (1991/2024)

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Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146 & Magnificat, H. 74 (1991/2024)

Kurt Moll, Ann Murray, Dawn Upshaw, Ethna Robinson, John Aler, Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146 & Magnificat, H. 74 (1991/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 172 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 Mb | 00:40:52
Classical, Choral, Vocal, Sacred | Label: Warner Classics

This recording of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s two sacred masterpieces is one of the only forays Neville Marriner ever made into French baroque. Full of elegance and refinement, this rendition features great vocal soloists such as Ann Murray, Daw Upshaw or John Aler.

Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (1997) 2CDs

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Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (1997) 2CDs

Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (1997) 2CD
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Peter Warlock - George Butterworth - Frederick Delius - Edward Elgar

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 630 Mb | Scans ~ 15 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 452 707-2 | Time: 02:29:40

This is not strictly a compilation of what the British would term "light music," for there is music of substantial weight on these two discs: e.g., Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending, Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad, and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, but for the most part, Marriner and his charges offer less weighty fare that is familiar to many classical music-lovers and certainly dear to the heart of Anglophiles like this writer. From Vaughan Williams's perennial favorites, Fantasia on Greensleeves and the English Folk Song Suite, and George Butterworth's nigh-ubiquitous The Banks of Green Willow to less familiar fare like Delius's Serenade (composed to honor the 70th birthday of Frederick Delius) and the suite from Elgar's incomplete opera The Spanish Lady, this compilation of recordings–originally made in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1979–embodies the spirit of England and does so faultlessly. This is a well chosen and exemplarily executed collection of English orchestral miniatures proffered by a conductor and orchestra whose names have become synonymous with the repertoire.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 261 Mb | Total time: 58:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 434 132-2 | Recorded: 1992

Gioachino Rossini's Messa di Gloria of 1821, right in the middle of the years when he ruled the operatic scene, has been less often recorded than the free-spirited and personal Stabat Mater of his old age. Various reasons could be advanced for this comparative neglect. Stacked up against Rossini's operas of the period it's something of a mixed bag. Some of it is intensely operatic, but it also looks back to the past with its giant contrapuntal "Cum sancto spiritu" (the mass consists of a Kyrie and Gloria). From the point of view of the cult of individual Romantic genius, a major problem is that Rossini may have had a collaborator on the work, one Pietro Raimondi, who honed some of the more polyphonic passages.

Neville Marriner, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (1988)

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Neville Marriner, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (1988)

Neville Marriner, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 70:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 227 | Recorded: 1987

Born in the small town of Votkinsk in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky achieved considerable renown during his own lifetime and is today hailed as one of the world’s best-loved composers. Having initially studied law before enrolling at the St Petersburg Conservatory aged 22, he is best remembered for his symphonies, operas and ballets; ranking among his lesser-known creations, however, are the Orchestral Suites.

Sir Neville Marriner - Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel (2023)

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Sir Neville Marriner - Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel (2023)

Sir Neville Marriner - Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Handel (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 706 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 361 Mb | 02:36:43
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The centenary of iconic conductor Neville Marriner is approaching, and the release of our complete recordings’ boxset will be a major discographic event in 2024. In this perspective, throwback to some of his major renditions, starting with Handel: Water Music, Messiah, concertos, arias with Kathleen Battle… including digital premieres and high resolution remasterings!

Neville Marriner, Orquestra de Cadaqués - Arriaga: Obertura de “Los esclavos felices”, Sinfonía en Re menor (1996)

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Neville Marriner, Orquestra de Cadaqués - Arriaga: Obertura de “Los esclavos felices”, Sinfonía en Re menor (1996)

Neville Marriner, Orquestra de Cadaqués - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga: Obertura de “Los esclavos felices”, Sinfonía en Re menor (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 132 Mb | Total time: 31:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Tritó | # D00001 | Recorded: 1996

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. They also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday, January 27 (fifty years apart)

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner - William Boyce: 8 Symphonies (1995) Remastered Reissue 2017

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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner - William Boyce: 8 Symphonies (1995) Remastered Reissue 2017

William Boyce: 8 Symphonies (1995) Remastered Reissue 2017
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 292 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Capriccio (Encore Series) | # C8006 | 01:01:42

Capriccio Encore is a series of re-releases of the most famous recordings from Capriccio’s back catalogue, fully re-mastered and competitively priced. The legendary recordings of artists such as Sandor Végh, Ton Koopman, Sir Neville Marriner and the Vienna Boys’ Choir also contain repertoire highlights that have a particularly special appeal, from the baroque to the present day. This Encore release features William Boyce's 8 Symphonies, performed by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, lead by Sir Neville Marriner.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 928 Mb | Total time: 69:39+62:17+72:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 425 701-2 | Recorded: 1974, 1979

Jephtha was the last full-length composition that Handel wrote. (The Triumph of Time and Truth of 1757 was almost entirely made up of pre-existing music.) Given this fact, and also that the actual writing of it was an inordinately laborious task for Handel as he fought with rapidly failing eyesight, it's incomparable depth of expression and personal commitment make the whole work a profound and magnificent conclusion to his life's output. Based on a story from Judges XI, it tells of Jephtha leading the Israelites against the Ammonites and his ultimate sacrifice.

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)

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Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 140:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 444 824-2 | Recorded: 1976

This edition of Handel’s Messiah is a landmark recording both for the Academy and in the history of the work, being both the first recording made with the Academy’s own chorus, and the first (and as far as we are aware, only) recording of the version used by Handel for the work’s 1743 London premiere. Sir Neville Marriner’s deliberate choice to break with the massed-choir treatments of the past was greeted enthusiastically by the public, selling over a quarter of a million copies in the first three years, and leading Fanfare’s Michael Carter to remark in 2010: “There have been many recordings of Messiah since this 1976 release and there will no doubt be many more to come, but few, if any, will match, let alone surpass, this of Marriner.”

Leos Janacek - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set

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Leos Janacek - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set

Leos Janáček - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set
Paul Crossley, Christopher Van Kampen, Kenneth Sillito, Thomas Trotter
Gabrieli String Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Chailly
Charles Mackerras, François Huybrechts, Neville Marriner, David Atherton
Eva Urbanová, Vladimir Bogachov, Marta Benacková, Richard Novák

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.48 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 837 Mb | Scans ~ 20 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 523-2 DC5 | Time: 06:04:07

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Janáček’s birth, this Decca Collector Edition brings together most of the composer’s chamber works and solo pieces plus his most popular orchestral works and the magnificent Glagolitic Mass in a superb digital recording with Riccardo Chailly and Wiener Philharmoniker. The recordings of the solo works and chamber pieces feature one of the world’s most distinguished ensembles: the London Sinfonietta and David Atherton. Their recordings were originally released as a 5-LP set in 1981 and many of these performances have not been available for several years; many also make their first international appearance on CD. This set provides the listener with all the essential non-operatic Janáček in one convenient collection.

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)

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Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 562 Mb | Total time: 118:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 416 415-2 | Recorded: 1977

This Mass in B Minor led by Sir Neville Marriner is an excellent choice for those looking for modern orchestral instruments, lively, full adult choruses, and a solid lineup of soloists. Marriner’s performance lacks the ponderously stodgy tempos of those older recordings, but he does not bypass the beauty, spirituality, or grandiosity inherent in the music in favour of speed.

John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)

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John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)

John Harle, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Saxophone Concertos (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 71:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 54301 2 | Recorded: 1990

Though the saxophone has never found a regular place in the orchestra it has nevertheless captured the interest of a long line of composers; a square peg doesn't need to fit into any orchestral round hole when it is centre-stage. It is, too, one of the instruments whose technique has been advanced by players of jazz—a field in which John Harle remains active. There are now exponents of awesome ability, worthy of the attention of serious composers such as, in this recording, Bennett—who is also given to crossing the musical tracks.