August 2011: Pianthology, originally released on UYMP in 2008 (see below), has just been re-released as a digital download by NMC. Your can also hear it on Spotify.
Myself with Ian Ryan (pianist) during recording sessions at the National Centre for Early Music, July 2011
2010: I've
been involved in three recording projects this Summer. I've just
finished editing and mastering a CD of choral music sung by The 24.
The CD is called York & China and features English and Chinese
repertoire both old and new. The recording was made in the beautiful
acoustic of the Church of St Mary and Evelrida
in Everingham, Yorkshire. The second project also involved members of
this group and was a recording of incidental music composed by Roger Marsh for a recent Radio 3 production of Goethe's Faust. The third project was also of music by Roger Marsh - his setting of the Lamentations composed for, and in collaboration with, Angelica Cathariou.
An audio restoration project I have been working on Michael Howard: A Choral Pioneer has now been released and is available online from Verus Records. This CD is a restoration of choral recordings made at Arundel and Ely Cathedrals by the Renassance Singers and Ely choristers under the direction of Michael Howard fifty years ago. As well as having the recordings denoised and tidying them up I have returned to the original venues to take acoustic measurements to improve the quality of reverberation on the recordings. I believe that this is the first time that impulse response measurements have been used as part of the restoration process.
2008 saw the release of Pianthology performed by Nicky Losseff. These recordings, which were made in the Rymer Auditorium of the Music Research Centre at York, are to accompany a collection of contemporary piano pieces published by UYMP. I was engineer and editor.
Also in that year Touch Music released a 7" vinyl single containing reworkings by Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck of recordings I made of Charles Matthews playing the organ of York Minster.
Two recent large-scale recordings (double CD and 23 CD box-set respectively!) I have worked on as engineer were made in York with the producer Roger Marsh:
Pierrot Lunaire (2007)
“so skilful is the performance, and so atmospheric the recording, that any reservations soon dissolve” - Gramophone
Ulysses unabridged (2004)
“it will be hard not to see this as the quintessential audio against which all other serious talking books are measured” – The Guardian
“a stellar production and accomplishment, and will certainly impress the scholar and audiophile alike” – Audio Publishers Association
I have worked for a number of labels and clients including Touch Music, Naxos Audiobooks, NMC, Sabres of Paradise, Cadenza, Herald AV and UYMP.