"David Looser" wrote in message
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About 20 years ago there was a TV documentary about the making of the DG
album of West Side Story with opera starts such as Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose
Carreras and conducted by Bernstein himself. I still have my off-air
recording of the documentary.

What surprised me was that although it was a multi-track recording using
many microphones, and in short takes subsequently edited together, it was
recorded with all the musicians, including the singers, in the same space
and performing at the same time.


I worked on the studio recording of the Bernard Shaw's
"Pygmalion" (My Fair Lady) with the London theatre cast,
Alec McGowan, Diana Rigg, Bob Hoskins, It was recorded
in just the way you describe. This was the only
sensible way to do it:-)

Iain