In the studio

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (above) and the BBC Philharmonic are going into Studio 7, Manchester, this coming month to record The Beltane Fire for Collins Classics... Nikolai Demidenko has just recorded the Schubert Impromptus Op 90 and Op 142, plus the three Klavierstucke, for Hyperion...

Leading record producer Andrew Keener admitted on Radio 3's Record Review last Saturday that most modern orchestral recordings contain one edit every 30 seconds, and most period instrument recordings one every 15 seconds. And I bet you just thought the players were getting better and better...