Sean Rafferty at Home with Sir Neville Marriner

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Sean Rafferty visits musicians at home and at work to learn about their lives and music

Sean Rafferty visits leading musicians at home and at work to learn about their lives and music

Sean Rafferty at Home: Neville Marriner Day

Sir Neville Marriner

Neville Marriner Day

BBC Radio 3 - Sean Rafferty at Home, Neville Marriner Day

At home with legendary conductor Sir Neville Marriner in London.

Sean Rafferty visits conductor and founder of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, to discuss music, life and culture.

One of Britain's greatest conductors Sir Neville Marriner invites Sean Rafferty into his London family home, the site of many rehearsals, to look back on a lifetime of music and culture.

From working with Milos Foreman on the soundtrack to Amadeus, to playing table tennis in Hollywood with violinist Jascha Heifetz, Sir Neville Marriner relives the most important moments of his career.

Marriner's formidable catalogue of recordings form the backbone of many a record collection.  Surrounded by the ticking of clocks collected over many years, Sir Neville describes his early days as a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra (which include flour bombing the tour bus from a WWII plane), his passion for planting trees, and how he would be happy never to conduct Vivaldi's Four Seasons ever again.
 
First broadcast in January 2014.

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