In Part 1, we asked: Audience or no audience? For me personally, the answer is simple: I must<\/i> have an audience to play my best.<\/p>\n
For the rest, I do as suggested to me by Lincoln Mayorga:<\/p>\n
One: Record a concert twice in the same hall, a day or two apart.<\/p>\n
Two: Choose the better performance of each work.<\/p>\n
Three: Identify any fatal errors in the chosen performances.<\/p>\n
Four: Correct these errors if possible.<\/p>\n
Five: If fatal errors remain, conclude that I wasn’t ready to record.<\/p>\n
Correcting errors: If I goofed at a certain spot in one concert, maybe I played the passage fine in the other concert, and can “cut and paste.” Or maybe I played it fine where it appeared elsewhere in the same performance.<\/p>\n
My first three albums indicate a range of what can happen. The first (Scarlatti\/Beethoven; out of print<\/a>) came from a single concert performance with no editing. I played the concert once, and lucked out: it was releasable.<\/p>\n The second (Schumann\/Chopin; out of print<\/a>) had one edit, to eliminate a cough between two chords at the end of “Kinderszenen.”<\/p>\n The third (Prokofiev 6th Sonata; LP out of print; CD available<\/a>) came to grief due to a fault in the microphone. I recorded again with an invited audience, and ended up working in quasi-studio style: Take 1 was all four movements. Take 2 was the first movement again. Then I decided to use Take 2 plus the 2nd, 3rd and 4th movements from Take 1. Finally, a few takes were “covers” of small errors. The audience patiently listened to me play all the takes, and waited while I listened to all the playbacks. (If they had left, the acoustics would have changed.) I’m reluctant to put an audience through that tedium; another reason to record in concert.<\/p>\n For “Pictures at an Exhibition” (LP<\/a>, CD<\/a>), I edited with Hugh Davies, who for decades was Angel’s top editor. The piece is 31’25” long, of which 1’25” was bits taken from the other concert. I commented that this was by far the most editing I’d ever done; and Mr. Davies exclaimed, “It’s one-fourth of the least<\/i> I’ve ever done!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Part 1, we asked: Audience or no audience? For me personally, the answer is simple:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}