Featuring: Baiba Skride – violin Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner Kodály: Dances of Galánta Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major (Italian), op. 90 When it was formed in 1958, Neville Marriner conducted the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra with violin in hand. Comprising of the finest musicians in London, in a few years the ensemble became one of the world’s finest. Marriner was knighted in 1985 and since its inception, has conducted them in performances of virtually every important work from the Baroque to the 20th century. They have made over five hundred recordings, the largest discography of any chamber orchestra in the world. Their Mozart recordings are particularly famous, and their sound track for the film Amadeus won numerous prizes. Since 2002, they have been the resident ensemble of the “Mostly Mozart” festival at the London Barbican Centre. Besides their lifetime president and artistic director, Kenneth Sillito, the ensemble works with such major guest musicians as Joshua Bell, Julia Fischer, Anthony Marwood, Murray Perahia, Julian Rachlin and Gil Shaham. They regularly tour outside Great Britain and thanks to their exceptionally wide repertoire and frequent radio broadcasts, are famous throughout the world. In 2007, the orchestra is working with twenty six year old violinist Baiba Skride who was born in Riga and plays on a 1725 Stradivarius violin: in the 2006/2007 season, she will perform in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Madrid, Bologna and several German cities. She has already worked with such distinguished ensembles and conductors as the Munich Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as Jean-Claude Casadesus, Charles Dutoit, Hans Graf and Paavo Järvi. Proof of her artistic bravery and technical mastery is that for the first of her four CD recordings she chose to record was Bartók’s extremely difficult Solo Sonata.
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