The Secret of Sherlock Holmes Restoration Project

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, co-written by Jeremy Paul and Jeremy Brett, ran in London's West End from 1988-1989, and starred Brett and his longtime co-star Edward Hardwicke. The only recording of this performance was made by Brett's close friends Woods and Pritchard, and was an ambient tape recording. Due to the breakdown of tape over time, and before the advent of mp3 conversion, it was very muddled and difficult to listen to. Here I have restored it as much as possible with noise reduction software, and now the wonderful performances of Brett and Hardwicke are much clearer and more discernible.

 I downloaded Goldwave 6 Beta version to do this edit, I have to say it's an AMAZING program, even if very very complex like Photoshop or AutoCAD. I'm looking forward to learning more about how to use it and will probably be tweaking and reloading these tracks later on.  

Here is the link to the one page on the Internet that apparently seems to host Linda Pritchard's rare recordings of Jeremy Brett: http://www.jeremybrett.info/st_holmes.html

If you listen to them you will hear a constant tape hum and hiss that really muddies the sound, and since this is the only recording of this show with no video of it elsewhere, the run of this performance and the love put into it, as well as the late Jeremy Brett's precious contributions to the genre, makes it utterly deserve restoration.

So here are Acts 1 and 2 on SoundCloud.   As I said I will keep tweaking these restorations, especially Act 2, to try and get as close to CD quality as I possibly can.  However, these are now far clearer and much more of a listening pleasure for the various subtleties and asides shared by Holmes.

https://soundcloud.com/alison-carter/the-secret-of-sherlock-holmes-act-1

https://soundcloud.com/alison-carter/the-secret-of-sherlock-holmes-act-2

Enjoy!