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Orchestral Concert CDs is devoted to issuing recordings of live orchestral concerts.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Geoffrey Terry was invited to tour with Eastern European orchestras visiting the UK. Being a recording engineer, Geoffrey could not resist the opportunity to make recordings of some of the concerts. It is from these recordings that the Orchestral Concert CDs series of discs has been established. We are pleased to announce the release of the first few CDs in the catalogue, and it is hoped that the range of recordings available will expand on a monthly basis.
The recordings originate from a series of concerts given by leading European orchestras such as the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhaus Bach Orchestra and others during their tours of the UK, together with world-class ensembles, soloists and conductors.
The technical theory behind the recordings, CNSTR, is very simple: considering that the concert-goer has only two ears, just two microphones were positioned in very carefully selected positions. The balance and dynamics were left entirely in the capable hands of the conductor; in many commercial recordings, sound engineers override the conductor's directions and constantly adjust any of the up to 64 microphones used for an orchestral concert recording.
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