From Stage to Studio

Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-48575-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Music

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of live and studio performances of orchestral and operatic repertoire conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.

The close listening analysis is based on detailed research into Mackerras’s private collection of over 600 reel-to-reel and cassette tapes containing recordings of over 1,000 live performances which he conducted between the 1950s and the late 1990s. This is contextualized with evidence collected during ethnographic fieldwork observations, presenting the opinions of Sir Charles, orchestral musicians from major London orchestras and opera houses with whom he was working with during the first decade of the twenty-first century (Philharmonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Opera House, English National Opera), and production team members working for recording industry leaders (such as Decca, EMI, and Chandos). This ethnography of classical music-making gives a voice to performers and music professionals, brings to light some important and heretofore hidden issues, and explores a fascinating time of intense change in the recording industry.

Including consideration of ways forward for performance, education, and recording, this book is relevant to specialist practitioners, as well as music enthusiasts interested in concert life and recording studio habits, professional performers, recordists, music students, educators, and scholars interested in classical music.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blier-Carruthers, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1 From stage to studio
CHAPTER 2 Live performance versus studio recording
CHAPTER 3 In the studio
CHAPTER 4 On the stage
CHAPTER 5 Variable performance traits
CHAPTER 6 Educational applications – Learning to perform in the studio
CHAPTER 7 Final edit – Towards an aesthetic emancipation and some ways forward

Appendices
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Blier-Carruthers is Postgraduate Research Programme Leader at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Senior Lecturer in Music Performance (Education) at King’s College London, and Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music.