Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an Engli… Read Full Bio ↴Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist.
Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra and formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1959 he founded the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra and has made many recordings conducting them. He conducted the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979 to 1986 and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. He was knighted in 1985.
Marriner has conducted a range of repertoire, but is particularly noted as an interpreter of Baroque music. He selected and arranged the music used in the film Amadeus and oversaw the recording of its soundtrack at the helm of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Amongst his other recordings are two CDs of British music for Universal Classics with the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. These include acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony and Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto.
Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra and formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1959 he founded the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra and has made many recordings conducting them. He conducted the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979 to 1986 and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. He was knighted in 1985.
Marriner has conducted a range of repertoire, but is particularly noted as an interpreter of Baroque music. He selected and arranged the music used in the film Amadeus and oversaw the recording of its soundtrack at the helm of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Amongst his other recordings are two CDs of British music for Universal Classics with the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. These include acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony and Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto.
The Planets Op. 32: 4. Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity
Sir Neville Marriner Lyrics
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Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi Dona eis requiem sempite…
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Max Merry
What can one say about this remarkable, ever-popular orchestral work that hasn't been said already? Looking at other channels who have uploaded the work (some with thousands of comments), there are constant references to its probable influence on John Williams and any number of scifi (and other grand-themed) film-score composers. However, as far as I understand it, Holst was less concerned with astronomy than he was astrology and mysticism. His planets are not so much physical entities as symbolic "signposts".
The music itself is, no doubt, one of the great tour-de-forces of the 20th Century, its orchestration, to my ears, having so many jaw-droppers (Saturn remains a personal favourite....listen to those basses!) and frisson-inducing passages (from 26:55, my own "to boldly go" moments, and 32:54, for instance). I can hear in it a harmonic language also explored by the likes of Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Florent Schmitt, Stravinsky, RVW, Elgar and Rimsky.........and yet, it sounds like none of them really.
It matters not to me that the tempo for Venus is slightly faster than many other more languorous recordings. It's a different reading, is all. Bravo, great upload!
Raphael Hudson
oh man Marriner was such a brilliant conductor. Somehow he always gets the strings sounding so clear, bright and fresh.
dmntuba
I don't think I knew that Sir Neville ever made this recording...WOW!
Julio Cesar Pereira
The first time I listened to 'The Planets' was from an album by Isao Tomita. It took me years to know that it was in fact a suite for orchestra composed.
Outer Galaxy Lounge
Marriner really lends a kind of jaunty bounce to the Uranus movement that's fun. Must be from all that Mozart he conducted. This was just the approach I was looking for.
Outer Galaxy Lounge
Just so you know, I was trying to avoid phrasings like: "Uranus has a jaunty bounce..."
Max Merry
As long as you don't say that to a stranger, you'll be fine....:-)
Outer Galaxy Lounge
@Max Merry I know, I tried it once and got slapped. Not really, lol.
Tony O'Badinage
And Sir Nev gets to record with one of the world's truly great symphony orchestras. This is not to dismiss other orchestras but, when you think of the great orchestras of the world, the Berlin PO, the Vienna PO and the Concertgebouw with, possibly, one or two of the London orchestras (Philharmonia and/or the LPO) spring to mind.
This is a masterly reading of Holst's most well-known composition. Over the years, I have tended to ignore 'The Planets' because I've been intent on investigating his lesser well-known works, Holst being a particular favourite composer for me. This performance shows just what a great orchestra can do with a great work, particularly when that orchestra is on its 'home turf' (the Philips studios), so to speak, and is every bit the equal of Boult's marvelous recording from a year later (1979) with the LPO (the recording against which I hold all others for this work).
The Planets will never be my favourite work by Holst (the Japanese Suite, Beni Mora, Psalm 86 and A Somerset Rhapsody all get my vote ahead of The Planets) but this recording should not be ignored, nor lost amongst the myriad of other, lesser, recordings. Well done Sir Nev!
2mdcoe
My favorite recording of this.