Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which he founded in 1958, in the opening to Mozart's Piano Concerto no.20 for his 90th birthday in 2014.
The British musician, who began his career as a violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra, has this week died at the age of 92.
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The British cellist was previously the principal cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The contract now extends through to August 2028
The violinist, chamber music player and conductor was born on this day in 1924. In this excerpt from a 1986 interview, Neville Marriner speaks to Dennis Rooney about his first encounters with violin playing and his early teachers
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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