2008 was a good year for recording, and there are now two things ready for release in 2009. The first was a children's project, called 'Fairy Tales and Goblins' Dances'. It has on it my wife Maya, (also playing violin) and two of my very favourite pianists in the world, Martin Roscoe and Alex Taylor.
We recorded in Champs Hill, amongst lots of splendid paintings and fattening food...
I think Martin is laughing at my intonation...
And secondly, in June I made my first concerto recording- of Kornglold and Rozsa concertos, both written for or premiered by Heifetz but I'm hoping nobody is going to remember the recording he made of them both...
I recorded them in the amazing Tonhalle in Dusseldorf, with the Dusseldorfer Symphoniker and Yasuo Shinozaki conducting. The sessions were incredibly tiring but great fun- perhaps the hardest part was the walk from the stage to the recording box which included around 9000 stairs I believe, and which nearly saw several members of the team rendered useless due to chest pains. We survived though, and the record comes out in Spring.
I told you the box was high up- this was taken from inside...
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