In fact, for our latest Direct-Cut album, I used one to capture Eleanor McEvoy’s wonderful voice.” They sound wonderful over an orchestra and also as a female vocal microphone. They were the first microphones in the world where you could remotely control their polar diagram. These are the AKG C12 mics which are valve powered and over 50 years old in their design. Added Valentine, “I decided to use just two omni-directional microphones.
In addition to what is quite clearly an acoustic jewel box of a church, the sessions took place across five nights to allow Valentine a choice of the ensemble’s best performances, which, except for their running order, are completely unedited.
However, I wanted to record them performing in their own church, San Vidal in the Accademia region, where they perform over 300 concerts a year.”Īlthough Vivaldi in Venice is not direct-to-disc, that technical detail matters not at all-this is an exceptional, and exceptionally natural, sounding recording, one so convincingly lifelike, so intimately present, so detailed and richly textured, that it’s akin to being transported to the venue itself-or at least as far as a recording can deliver us. As Chasing The Dragon’s Mike Valentine explained via email, “I had worked with the orchestra before, when I recorded them in London performing The Four Seasons as our first Direct-Cut album. Adding yet another fine title to its impressive young catalog, the English label Chasing The Dragon recorded these tracks live in Venice with that city’s Interpreti Veneziani, the chamber ensemble that also performed on the same label’s first release, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Let me say it up front, Vivaldi in Venice is one of the most gorgeous sounding and exquisitely played LPs I’ve heard in quite some time.
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