Talk:Neville Marriner

Personal story

I was stationed on the island of Crete for over half of my military career. In the summer of 1984, I was at a friend's house right on the beach in the village of Chersonissos. We had his stereo speakers out on the porch and were playing Brian Eno's Music For Airports, the first of his Ambient series. This thin, elderly British gentleman came over to us to ask who the musical artist was and I told him. He wrote it down. I then mentioned that I was a musician and played guitar, bass, harmonica and keyboards. He told me he was in music too and introduced himself as Neville Marriner. At that time, I did not know who he was. Had I known, my face would have turned red, I'm sure. 13:33, 7 February 2006 User:RobtJonz m (Personal story about Sir Neville Marriner.)

He wasn't that elderly…only would have been sixty at the time. —  $PЯINGrαgђ  18:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Discography

We really do need at least a representative selection of his profuse recordings, in addition to mention of the 2 cello works in the text. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:25, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

His 90th birthday is being celebrated (at least Down Here) this week, and the claim that he's the most recorded person in history has been made more than once. I don't know whether that's true or not, but he's certainly up there. Yet we have no details of this amazing discography. A serious omission. I know, I know, I should be bold and just start it myself. But this isn't a one-man job. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

this page very much needs some indication of the many recording-industry honors that sir Neville has received over the years, as well as some discussion of his conducting style or some unique aspect of his talents.Thomasark (talk) 17:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

The "Selected Discography" section featured only Pentatone issues, and it is becoming clear that the wikipedian Berggasse is a shill for Pentatone, given similar placements of lists in other conductor pages. DJRafe (talk) 19:52, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

You're saying that not one of those 13 records is notable because they were added by a discredited editor? But I see no discussion of the possibility of shilling, let alone any evidence, proof or sanctions, at User talk:Berggasse. Didn't you ought to pursue this at the appropriate disciplinary venue, before issuing such a serious claim and making such a large deletion? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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I thought it was spelt MaRiner, and he was born 1922 I think. I see no point in the anecdote. M Cochran

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