4C. Even Better than the Real Thing
In the 1950s, classical record producers were fixated on realism, aspiring to put listeners in the \u2018best seat of an acoustically perfect hall.\u2019 Not so for John Culshaw, however, a maverick producer who used new stereophonic technology to produce operas that were more dramatic, more spatially immersive and (so he claimed) more faithful to a composer\u2019s intentions. Sonic highlights from Culshaw\u2019s producing career accompany a reading from his two memoirs, \u2018Ring Resounding\u2019 and \u2018Putting the Record Straight.\u2019