It takes time to get a recording to finish, especially if your engineer has another job. We had to sort through all the pieces, there are many, to get the best take, to hook up various starts and stops of a tune and for me to listen and listen. I ALWAYS loath the recordings when I first hear them. I don't know why that is, but it's uncomfortable. I have to wait for a month before I can clearly hear what we've recorded.
I'm still not happy with the recordings, people needed a conductor and several more rehearsals, but as it is I spent a huge amount of money and the musicians did pretty good. I, of course, wanted top notch, tight results. Oh well. I am going forward even if I'm going to get embaresssed.
I'd hired several of the musicians from the Cape Cod Symphony, which is a good orchestra and then through the efforts of the pianist, Roxana Bajdechi, several more musicians in Boston. In fact the cellist, Eleanor Blake was just called in to try out for the Boston Symphony! And Roxana is a practicing concert pianist traveling all over the world. So you see....
Of course I wanted to do some re-writes. Some parts of some tunes were muddy. It's a little hard to tell what something is going to sound like when you put real instruments to the job. I used Finale and it was wonderful, but not perfect. I'll do the re-writes but only for posterity. These will not be recorded again.