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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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Rev. 22 Dec 2019
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...
Links to short essays on this website and a list of more extended writings on various aspects of Gustav Mahler’s life and music.
Around 1930, stereo was invented independently by Bell Labs in the USA and by Alan D. Blumlein at EMI Labs in England...
Samples of 4.0 surround recordings, some made with my pantophonic microphone, can be played back with Firefox, Chrome and other browsers.
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...