Phew... a huge day of recording for my wife and I for our ensemble. And the schedule for the day (not counting rehearsing and admin/logistics in the previous week!):

06:00 Wake
07:15 Dump the kids at grandparents to get them to school later
08:00 Open the venue and start the bump in with stage clearing and harpsichord moving
08:30-9:30 Recording engineer bump-in and set-up
08:45-10:00 Harpsichord tuning and minor maintenence
10:00-10:30 Sound checking
10:30-13:15 Double block of recording with mini breaks
13:15-14:15 Lunch hour
14:15-17:00 Double block of recording with mini breaks
17:00-17:45 Bump out and general packing
19:00 Get back to grandparents and eat dinner!
22:00 CRASH CRASH CRASH!!!!

A huge day, but it all went really quite smoothly... we had a great recording engineer, and we were relatively well prepared with our music and scheduling... nothing too ambitious, and with many options if things started to run behind time (they always do...). Plus, for both musicians and engineer... a low stress, what happens happens attitude to the recording session!

In the end, we recorded EVERYTHING that we had planned! Even with a slightly delayed start due to the extended sound checking... but that initial set-up time was critical as it made the rest of the day much smoother!

So two solos (music by Hume and Pogletti), and about five violin/continuo multi-movement pieces (by Tartini, Eccles, different Eccles, Pandolfi, and Geminiani... a huge play and quite ambitious for a first recording... but we did it!

... and the first draft mixes are in our hot little hands... and they are what we had hoped for! Something that sort of captures the atmosphere of our live concerts and the way that we want music from the Baroque to be presented... passionate, raw, and bitey!

I wish it was the end of the year.... but we still have one more thing to do... a large grant proposal that is due at the end of this week. So, this blog post is my little break time from trying to understand and parse funding-gobbledy-gook...

... and now, back to work!

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