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Classical

Although I’m a classically trained pianist and cellist, I gave up trying to get people to pay me for playing classical music when I realised that I wasn’t good enough at it. I am, however, quite good at orchestral arrangements, and have done quite a lot of this kind of thing. Geoff Lawson is better than me though, so give him a ring first if you need a string section or a bit of windy bottom end on your record.

Filmed at the ‘After Class’ recording sessions in Potton Hall. Sound recording (P) RAD Enterprises 2009. Used with permission.

I love recording classical music, and have done so for many years at venues such as Abbey Road, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin in the Fields, and Potton Hall. I recently produced “Cello Journey” for Tony Woollard – a beautiful and inspiring piece of work which brings together an hour of previously unrecorded music for solo cello by contemporary English composers. The CD begins with a “lost” work by William Walton which was written for Prince Charles in 1970, and ends with “Lost Time”, an Impressionistic reverie which had been swimming around in the Holdsworth noggin for several years before I wrote it down for Tony in 2009.

Other classical artists I’ve worked with over the years include Pavarotti, Nigel Kennedy, Robert Cohen and Jonathan Rathbone. I also did a CD a few years ago with a choir from Cambridge in a monastery up in the Alps somewhere. I was young, and the monastery brewed its own beer, so unfortunately I can’t remember either the name of the choir or the location of the monastery.