![]() ![]() Now, of course, I could use this information to identify the piece by Googling, or I could just wait to the end and hear what the announcer says. That was Interesting, but you see what's missing: precisely the two pieces of information I wanted. Allegro Molto, performed by the Beaux Arts Trio & Lawrence Dutton. ![]() After a couple of tries, Shazam succeeded, telling me that the piece was 4. What I wanted to know - what a classical music fan typically wants to know - was the composer and the name of the overall 4-movement composition. It was obviously 19th-century French music, and I suspected - from a similarity to a piano trio I knew - that the composer was Fauré. Here's my latest example: I turned on the radio in midstream of what was clearly a piano quartet or quintet. The problem is that they haven't bothered to think about how to present the identification. They've gone to the trouble of putting thousands of classical recordings into their database, and the app is frequently successful in identifying relatively obscure items. As a classical music fan, I find this a frustrating app. ![]()
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