Recording producer,
sound engineer
& Tonmeister

A fellow musician in the control room, with an independent ear for interpretation, ensemble and musical structure.

Musical judgement and technical command brought together in recording, editing and mastering.

Simon Fox-Gál adjusting a microphone beside a musician in the concert hall.
Adjusting microphones for the recording of Hans Gál’s opera Das Lied der Nacht, Osnabrück.

Featured recording

Hans Gál: Das Lied der Nacht

Gritt Gnauck · Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester · Andreas Hotz

Recording produced, engineered and edited by Simon Fox-Gál

Final scene · Komm, Schwester Lianora!

1 min

Selected recordings

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The Italian Job — album cover

The Italian Job

Adrian Chandler · La Serenissima

Engineer, Editing, Recording Producer

2017 / Avie / AV2371

Why I make recordings

Working together

A recording can grow out of years of playing a work together, or offer the chance to bring a rarely heard piece to a wider audience. What you want the recording to reveal is where our conversation begins.

In the early part of a session, I tend to stay in the background. It gives your interpretation room to unfold and gives me time to hear how you work. As the session develops, I get more closely involved where the music calls for it.

I enjoy being someone you can turn to for a detailed musical exchange, or simply rely on to be listening carefully. Hearing a performance take shape at close quarters is a privilege; hearing its individuality come through in the finished recording is a lasting pleasure.

I work in both English and German.

Simon

From the collection

From the collection

A work selected each day, with samples from the recording.

Bach 2 — album cover

Johann Sebastian Bach

Lute Suite BWV 997

Ismo Eskelinen

Artists credited on this album

From Bach 2
2016 · Alba

Recordings

Record room

A selection of 236 recordings, arranged by decade. Browse by artist, composer or label, or explore the covers.

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Hans Gál: String Quintet, String Quartet No. 4, Five Intermezzi — album coverCrossing Borders — album coverDiavolo — Giuseppe Tartini: 6 Violin Sonatas — album coverForza Azzurri!: Music by Dall'Abaco, Brescianello, Sammartini, Vivaldi and Zavateri — album coverHidden Treasure: Hans Gál’s Unpublished Lieder — album coverMatthew Taylor: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Romanza for Strings — album coverDavid Matthews: Symphony No. 9; Variations for Strings; Double Concerto for Violin and Viola — album coverFrançois Francœur: Sonates à violon seul et basse continue – Livre I, Paris, 1720 — album coverSelim Palmgren: April — album coverPehr Henrik Nordgren: Storm – Fear — album coverHandel: Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo — album coverCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Hamburger Sinfonien Wq 182 — album coverVivaldi: The Four Seasons — album coverPer Monsieur Pisendel 2: Six Virtuoso Violin Sonatas of the Baroque — album coverHans Gál: Symphony No. 2; Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 — album coverHans Gál, Edward Elgar: Cello Concertos — album coverChange Is Gonna Come — album coverVivaldi: The French Connection 2 — album coverMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 — album coverBeethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello — album coverGasparini: Sonate e Cantate — album coverBeethoven: The Complete Pianoforte & Violin Sonatas — album coverThe Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740, Vol. 1 - The Dawn of the Virtuoso — album coverBoccherini: Guitar Quintets; String Quartet — album cover

Behind the recording

Interpretation and recording

Some reflections on the choices that arise in sessions and editing: which takes belong together, what a recorded balance reveals, and when to leave a performance as it is.

Recording, production,
editing and mastering.

I take on projects where we share a sense of what the recording could be. My involvement can span the project or concentrate on a particular stage.

Discuss a recording