I work a lot with a particular singer who responds very well to
audiences, and the audiences to him. Studio recordings with him
tend to be a lot safer and therefore blander. For our next cd,
we've done three studio & edited recordings together so far, I've
talked him into a live recording. But we have yet to decide about
the particulars, perhaps it'll be a 'live studio audience' and not
a regular concert. Maybe 10, 20 people for whome we'll give three
times the same concert in one day, after which we'll pick the best
takes of each indivudual song. There are more ways of giving a live
feeling to a cd than just recording a live concert. It's good to
keep control over the sound, and adding a feet-shuffling, sneezing
and coughing audience is not always helping. Remember Alfred
Brendl. ;-)
David - Matthew Passion tonight: exiting!
David
That sounds an excellent compromise, to me. I am sure it will be a
great success.
That reminds me, however, of another solution to this audience noise
problem, it was at a wonderful performance of Lully's Atys, with
Les Arts Florissants, where William Christie (looking down his nose
at the public) warned that the music they were about to hear was of
such exceptional delicacy and refinement that it could take
absolutely no coughing, sneezing, creaking of seats, or other
indelicate disturbances. The audience wore suitably shocked faces,
and darted reproving and suspicious glances at their neighbours. The
whole performance was held in the darkest hush I have (n)ever heard.
Some may even have forgotten to breathe. Not one cough or splutter,
until half-time, when the audience broke into resounding applause,
and being mainly French, erupted in what is called "quinte de toux",
but whether these were "quinte juste or quinte naturelle" or even
"Quinte doublement augmentée", I would leave that to William's
skilful and refined musical ear to decide.
("quinte de toux" French for a coughing fit, probably because they
come in sets of five, rather than because of the musical interval,
unless it was based on the musical interval of houping cough).
Anthony
Le 17 mars 08 à 11:58, LGS-Europe a écrit :
Anthony wrote:
misses the audience to which
can respond.
<<
I work a lot with a particular singer who responds very well to
audiences, and the audiences to him. Studio recordings with him
tend to be a lot safer and therefore blander. For our next cd,
we've done three studio & edited recordings together so far, I've
talked him into a live recording. But we have yet to decide about
the particulars, perhaps it'll be a 'live studio audience' and not
a regular concert. Maybe 10, 20 people for whome we'll give three
times the same concert in one day, after which we'll pick the best
takes of each indivudual song. There are more ways of giving a live
feeling to a cd than just recording a live concert. It's good to
keep control over the sound, and adding a feet-shuffling, sneezing
and coughing audience is not always helping. Remember Alfred
Brendl. ;-)
David - Matthew Passion tonight: exiting!
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