Recording Classical Music - Paperback

by Robert Toft (Author)

Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces. Recording Classical Music provides the tools necessary for anyone interested in classical music production to track, mix and deliver audio recordings themselves or to supervise the work of others.

Author Biography

Robert Toft teaches in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University, Canada. His interests revolve around the notion of research informing practice, and he specializes in both recording practices and the history of singing. He has written five books on historically informed vocal performance and has given master classes at leading conservatories and universities in Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the USA. Robert's production company, Talbot Records, released its first recording in 2017. Inspired by the intensely dramatic performing styles of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, its main series, Radically Hip, connects modern audiences to the impassioned eloquence of the past.