A moving, magical tribute to the great Sir Neville Marriner, plus the best of April’s classical and jazz concerts

• The most successful British classical musician of the past 60 years isn’t Simon Rattle, or Emma Kirkby or Dame Janet Baker. It’s a dapper, smiling violinist-turned-conductor, born into a working-class family, who created the world’s most-recorded and most-broadcast orchestra: the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Neville Marriner didn’t quite make it to his 2024 centenary – he died in 2016 at the age of 92 – but the orchestra he founded wasn’t going to let the occasion pass without a big spla