Violinist and conductor Sir Neville Marriner, who is interviewed in The Strad's April 2014 issue for his 90th birthday, leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in the Overture to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1994.
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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 Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite no.6 is the latest single to be released from the cellist’s upcoming album
The unusual violin is currently on display at the ‘New Instrument Exhibit’, part of the Violin Society of America’s 2024 convention in Indianapolis
Bernsted performs a solo work that she describes as having ‘complexity like a kaleidoscope’
Check out a string chamber version of Vaughan Williams’s beloved work for violin
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
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