1971 | Klemperer’s EMI Recording of ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ in the Kingsway Hall
A detailed look at recording a ‘studio opera’ in the early 70s In 1971 I was a young sound assistant at London Weekend TV’s subsidiary sound studio ‘Intersound’ and had a growing love of classical music. I had discovered that both Decca and EMI were frequent users of the Methodist Kingsway Hall, just up from…
1988 | Mixing a live ‘Don Giovanni’ for Channel 4
Don Giovanni -The Royal Opera House ‘Farewell to Sir John Tooley’ 23rd July 1988. In 1988 Jeremy Isaacs left Channel 4 and headed to the Royal Opera House to replace Sir John Tooley as Director. Jeremy had been the great head of Channel 4 since it started and had given many of us in the…