[mb-style] Bach passions and CSG

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com>
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 agree with Paul; and, for once, I disagree with Leiv. Although I
understand the redundancy is annoying, I feel that we must accept some
limitations of mp3 players...

...and more importantly of the MB web site! If I was looking for one part of
the Matthew Passion, I'd probably enter "BWV 244" in the track search box,
and I'd completely miss your release!

There is nothing indicating in your current release what work each track
belongs to. Of course, any classical editor with a little knowledge would
guess all the tracks actually belong to BWV 244, but imagine the same
procedure applied to some completely unknown work from some obscure
composer. Impossible to guess if the release title is the name of the work
or the commercial name of a compilation, or if each track actually belongs
to a single work or is an entirely separate work.

If you generalized this procedure, how would you enter (in the current state
of the MB database)
http://musicbrainz.org/release/86a78b3d-08d6-4b42-990b-30463b66fc98.html ?

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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