[mb-style] Bach passions and CSG

[Aaron Cooper]

On 20-Mar-08, at 7:17 PM, Leiv Hellebo wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Easter time is Bach passion time for me - especially since the flu
> prevents my family from going skiing :(
>
> So, I just spent the last hours adding a new recording of the St.
> Matthew Passion.
>
> This has 101 tracks played in about 161 minutes, and 25 tracks are  
> less
> than half a minute, 13 last for less than 15 seconds. Because of this,
> it's imperative that the most important parts of the movement title
> sticks out properly from the track titles.
>
> So, I thought, how can this best be done?
>
> I ended following the booklet, and the tags provided by the label  
> (it's
> a download). In the process I radically downplayed the common stuff  
> that
> we pad the titles with (work names and part indication), and ended  
> up with:
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/92fa1794-7a7e-48cd-a322-10a5def12cf1.html
>
> (reference: http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-matthew-passion.aspx)
>
> Now I don't want to start another quarrel, and I didn't really want to
> start another discussion on keeping out the WorkName from titles just
> yet, but I had time to add this now, so....
>
> thoughts?

I think it's missing a lot of important information like the stuff  
from OperaTrackStyle.  Because classical stuff is released on CDs and  
not as "works" I think work info is necessary in track titles (as does  
the CSG).  If we just had a "Symphony No. 5 in C minor" work-release,  
then we wouldn't really need to put "Symphony No. 5 in C minor" in  
each track title–but we don't so we have to ;)

I think these titles should be at least:

Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Choral "Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du  
verbrochen"
Matthew Passion, BWV 244: "Da das Jesus merkete" (Evangelista, Jesus)
etc.

Copying directly from http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CSGStandard/JSBach  
would make things a lot better, too.

-Aaron