Last week I was asked by my friend Jeremy Mortimer, a radio drama producer and sometime colleague from East 15 Drama School, to record a piano backing track for a song in a serialisation of Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood. I also coached the actor, Isabelle Inchbald, who played Rosa, the character forced to sing by the evil John Jasper. It went well, the backing track and vocals sounding good, including the recordings of me opening and closing the piano lid: not just anyone could have done that.
Colin Sell 