Where was the Vivaldi recorded?
KG: The recording sessions were held at the St. Augustin de Mirabel Church, the same as for the “Anna Magdalena” recording. People think you can do 100 takes and piece together the good parts, but that really doesnt work. The real challenge is to prepare the imagery in your mind as you would for a live audience. To produce this one-hour disc took one day for the sound check, then three days of four-hour sessions and another day of a two-hour session. When I wasnt singing I took ten minute breaks. I was just eating, singing and sleeping. By comparison, my twenty minutes on the Bach recording took three three-hour sessions. The musicians were arranged in a semi-circle at the altar. I faced the orchestra from an elevated platform about ten feet down the centre aisle. I had my microphone and they had theirs. With this arrangement, they could see my every move and my breathing, and could follow me but it was far enough that they also had to listen to me. We had a wonderful team who always g
