Recent Projects

Last Updated 17th October. Been very lazy updating this page but following is a small selection since September of 2006!

The State Orchestra of Victoria

Saint-Saens Opera 'Helene'

This piece hasn't even been heard for over a hundred years! It was written for Dame Nellie Melba and has 3 soloists and chorus. Nice to be recording an opera like this in studio conditions....doesn't happen much these days!

Yes, It's Sydney

Richard Bonynge/Deborah Riedle - 18th Century Concert arias in Sydney, August 2007

Marin Alsop/BSO - Bartok, Bluebeard's Castle

Carl Davis/RLPO - Film Music Themes

Vasily Petrenko/Eldar Nebolsin/RLPO - Liszt Piano Concerti

Dohnanyi Violin concerti - RSNO/JoAnn Falletta/Michael Ludwig

Music by Andy Pearce in Glasgow (RSNO/Serebrier - August 2007)

Freitas Branco Symphony - RTE in Dublin

Chants d'Auvergne in Lille (January 2007)

Me, Andy Pearce (composer) , Miriam Kramer (Violin)

Jose Serebrier, Me, Andy Pearce

RLPO - Liszt Piano concerti

Michael Ludwig, JoAnn Falletta, ME!

Dublin, with the RTE September 2007

AUSTRALIA - Septmeber 2006

I made two recordings in Melbourne for Melba. A lovely horn piece (played by Ben Jacks, principal of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra) written by Damase, dedicated to Barry Humphries (!). Played by the State Orchestra of Victoria, conducted by horn legend, Barry Tuckwell.

Also on this trip, a recording of South Melbourne Town Hall's massive organ. Organist and composer Calvin Bowman played a selection of contemporary Austalian works. Very impressive.

RSNO/Serebrier - Ned Rorem Concerti (August 2006)

Following on from the success of Rorem's violin and flute concerti recorded which I recorded last year for Naxos, these sessions in Scotland were to record his Piano concerto No.2 (there is no Piano concerto No.1!) and Cello Concerto. The Soloists were the prodigiously talented pianist Simon Mulligan, and cellist Wen Sin. I engineered and produced these sessions, assited by James Walsh and another excellent visiting engineer from the ABC in Melbourne, Richard Girvan.

SIMONE YOUNG/STEVE DAVISLIM - August 2006

I travelled to Hamburg to do some sessions for Melba of Benjamin Britten's folksong settings. Simone Young, who normally conducts in Hamburg, was accompanying tenor Steve Davislim.

BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - June 2006

More Wagner! This time a really great disk Stokowski's famous transcriptions - inlcluding a synthesis on Parsifal and Tristan (which is over 30 minutes long!).

These sessions, conducted by one of their favourite conductors José Serebrier, were quite special as all the musicians seemed to get real enjoyment out of the music. I engineered and produced this CD with help from my trusted second engineer, James Walsh.

STANFORD SYMPHONIES - June 2006

Back with the BSO yet again to record the complete Stanford symphonies with David Lloyd-Jones, an old favourite. Andrew Walton was producing these sessions for Naxos. The symphonies are being recorded at different times throughout this year and next.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA / PHLHARMONIC CHOIR / ION MARIN - Abbey Road, April 2006

These sessions were to record some new compositions by Lebanese composer, Oussama Rahbani, commissioned for the opening of the new Islamic gallery at the V&A in July. The sessions had 9 Lebanese soloists and full choir and was a real fusion of musical styles. This 48 track recording was engineered and produced by myself.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA/MARIN ALSOP - April 2006

Renowned conducor Marin Alsop completed her monumental Brahms cycle at Watford Town Hall with these sessions to record Brahms' Symphony No.4. The world-famous LPO were in top form. The recording was made in surround-sound. (The photographs are coutesy of conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson, who was also at the sessions)

Marin Alsop with the LPO

'The Team'

Marin Alsop in discussion with Tim Handley (who won the GRAMMY for Producer of the Year)

ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA - February 2006

José Serebrier Conducting

The RSNO during the sessions

With producer Tim Oldham

Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow

Renowned conductor José Serebrier was performing Glazunov's attractive symphonies 4 and 7 for a major record label recently. This was with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, for whom José Serebrier has conducted many times. The recording was for Warner Classics and it is a continuation from maestro Serebrier's earlier recordings of Glazunov symphonies for the same label.

ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC - January 2006

David Lloyd-Jones with Philip Dukes discussing the viola concerto

David Lloyd-Jones, Anna Barry, Andrew Knowles, Jonathan Small

David Lloyd-Jones conducts the RLPO with soloists Philip Dukes (Viola - pictured above), Jonathan Small (Oboe), and Thelma Handy (Violin). These recent sessions were to record some spectacular pieces by British composer William Alwyn. The pieces included his Pastoral Fantasy (for viola and orchestra), his oboe concerto and a neo-classical concerto grosso.

TENOR STEVE DAVISLIM - Melbourne, September 2005

THE ADELAIDE RING - November/December 2004

The recording of the first all-Australian Ring Cycle in Adelaide, 2004, was a pioneering event. It is the first recording of the Ring to be in Surround-sound and will be released in 2006 in hybrid SACD format; another first. The recording took place in November and December of 2004 and the post-production has just been completed in Melbourne. It employed two SADiE systems: an H64 and a DSD-8. The H64 was, rather excitingly, the first 'fully-loaded' H64 to be used professionally and was shipped from the UK especially for this project.

There were 4 complete perormances of each of Wagner's 4 Ring operas and each one was recorded live onto 64 tracks. From beginning to end, over 80 Hard disks were used (each with a 250Gb capacity), amounting to about 20 terrabytes of information!

During rehearsals for Gotterdammerung

Australian Rhein-maidens

a SMALL sample of the disks used for the Ring!

Piano recording at South Melbourne Town Hall