Deryk Barker wrote:

>And then there's shee ignorance.  There are at least a couple of recordings
>of the Liszt B minor sonata out there missing the first two bars.  Alfred
>Brendel claims this is because the engineers thought they were simply the
>pianist practising...

Weren't the engineers working with the printed sheet music?

One of my favorite editing gaffs (at least that's what I suppose it is)
involves the last chord left off in the Myelodiya/Angel release of
Scriabin's "Divine Poem" (alias Symphony #3) with Svyetlanov conducting.
A splendid and transporting recording in all other respects.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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