John Culshaw - Recording Producer

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Where to place microphones is always going to be a controversial issue. Decca used to have it just about right during the Culshaw era, but started moving them closer to source almost as soon as soon as he left, with the first Solti Die Zauberflote. This pleased critics like Alan Blyth, in opera recordings but sounded nothing like the opera house live balance.

[BBMmk2]

Ah, here we go again!! :)

[BBMmk2]

You must be referring to Suvi Raj Grubb (1917-1999) who succeeded Legge at EMI and was, by all acounts, a much nicer bloke. According to Wikipedia, he produced Dennis Brain's recordings of the Mozart horn concerti.

I thought it was, rauschwerk his name, couldn't be quite so sure. Thank you.

[Ferretfancy]

Timbeerland,

I think you are trying to remember Suji Raj Grubb, he produced many excellent recordings for EMI.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ah, here we go again!! :)

I hope I'm nor boring you, BBM. :( It's just that John Culshaw was often criticised for have the orchestra too far forward in relation to the voices - a criticism I refute absolutely. In JC's "Ring Resounding" there was an occasion when Birgit Nilsson thought the same, but changed her mind when she heard it played on decent equipment.

[Rowan Tree]

OOOh! I have what looks like a mint copy of "Putting the Record Straight" I guess I can book a cruise!
A month ago I picked up a copy of the Nilsson-Culshaw "Salome" in Petersfield market, yes the one with THAT cover. I grew up with and love Culshaw's Ring Cycle but find his "Salome" an artificial mess. Perhaps Birgit was in costume at the time. Or perhaps it's just the 2006 re-master.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

OOOh! I have what looks like a mint copy of "Putting the Record Straight" I guess I can book a cruise!
A month ago I picked up a copy of the Nilsson-Culshaw "Salome" in Petersfield market, yes the one with THAT cover. I grew up with and love Culshaw's Ring Cycle but find his "Salome" an artificial mess. Perhaps Birgit was in costume at the time. Or perhaps it's just the 2006 re-master.

Do you want to sell it? If so, please leave me a private message.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I...regret not buying "Putting the Record Straight" when it was available. It fetches silly prices in the secondhand market.

You gave me great hopes of being able to retire early , Alpensinfonie :cool2: ...

...but then I decided I'd better just check what size of Caribbean apartment I should be looking for and discovered that the book is a mere £30 to £40 on Amazon

Another 9 years at the coalface...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Never mind, LMP, it can be unbearably hot in the Caribbean.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Never mind, LMP, it can be unbearably hot in the Caribbean.

Ummm now let me think, unbearable heat in the Caribbean
or a snowy Bodmin Moor?

Tough one that!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ummm now let me think, unbearable heat in the Caribbean
or a snowy Bodmin Moor?

Tough one that!

Not for me. I prefer cooler climates. You can always add extra layers when it's too cold, but when the heat is excessive, there's very little you can do.

[Mary Chambers]

Not for me. I prefer cooler climates. You can always add extra layers when it's too cold, but when the heat is excessive, there's very little you can do.

I agree! I hate hot weather.

[Roehre]

I agree! I hate hot weather.

That makes three of us then

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You will have heard of the condition S.A.D., causing sufferers to be depressed during the winter. I have the opposite problem - severe hay fever in the summer and a strong dislike of hot weather.

[Stanley Stewart]

I've just checked my hard back copy of Putting The Record Straight and note that it was priced at £8 50 when published in 1981. Yet visitors usually opt for Ring Resounding - the striking cover? - before, say, Reflections on Wagner's Ring; and some Wagnerites didn't even know of Culshaw's, Wagner; the Man & His Music (1979), (Metropolitan Opera Guild Composer series).