BaL 7.03.15 - Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor Op. 17

[BBMmk2]

No comments about the one that came top in this BaL?

[Alison]

No comments about the one that came top in this BaL?

Strange how I trust DON implicitly in all matters musical - save for actually choosing the best recording!

[Roehre]

...There's another twist, though. Even if a 'name' does perform it, it's still an unknown work, and you often detect signs of caution in the playing. Perhaps it needs an ensemble to become thoroughly 'at home' with the piece before it's recorded - but how often can that happen?...

A "problem" which obviously is inherent to recordings of premieres.....

[Nick Armstrong]

No comments about the one that came top in this BaL?

See the end of my #52!

How right you are. As a lifelong promoter of the less-known I know how frustrating it is to find something genuinely rare played but adequately by the Little Steeping-on-the-Wold Sinfonia.*** There's another twist, though. Even if a 'name' does perform it, it's still an unknown work, and you often detect signs of caution in the playing. Perhaps it needs an ensemble to become thoroughly 'at home' with the piece before it's recorded - but how often can that happen?

There's a case of confirmation bias lurking here, too (this piece is not 'great' or it would be played more often; therefore, I won't play it - thus adding to its infrequency, and proving that it is not 'great').

***[Any resemblance to a real musical ensemble is of course purely imaginary - perhaps a lawyer in a suitable legal field might advise (but I am skint).]

Yes - another turn of the vicious screw.

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Oh and you're legally safe, by the way***

[*** Have this one on me ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Strange how I trust DON implicitly in all matters musical - save for actually choosing the best recording!

I was more attracted by what I heard from the ABEGG and Streicher recordings.

[BBMmk2]

Thank you, Cali, re message No.52. :)