DAVID PICKETT   musician
David Pickett

Welcome to my website. You will find here information about my conducting, recording, research and teaching activities, together with essays on various aspects of music and recording. The site can be accessed successfully on anything from a smartphone to a desktop computer, though the latter is recommended for the best experience – the pictures are bigger!

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Gustav Mahler & Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Mahler’s Beethoven IX scores.

Gustav Mahler conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on ten occasions: in Prague, Hamburg, Vienna, Strassburg and New York. For the last seven of these performances he prepared and used his own score and orchestral parts. I have transcribed and edited these materials...

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My Writings on Mahler

Gustav Mahler 1909

Links to short essays on this website and a list of more extended writings on various aspects of Gustav Mahler’s life and music.

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Basic Stereo Theory

Blumlein’s experimental stereo ribbon microphone

Around 1930, stereo was invented independently by Bell Labs in the USA and by Alan D. Blumlein at EMI Labs in England...

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Surround Sound Recordings

Mahler 10 LP cover

Samples of 4.0 surround recordings, some made with my pantophonic microphone, can be played back with Firefox, Chrome and other browsers.

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The Wyn Morris Recording of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony

Mahler 10 LP cover

The Welsh conductor, Wyn Morris (1929 – 2010), made his London debut at the Festival Hall in 1963 with a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. This was a daring choice of repertoire for the time and Morris’s performance was greeted with unusually strong critical acclaim...

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