The article says it's to offer people the classical music recordings they don't have to pay royalties on, when they search for the composition, even if it's not the best.
Doesn't seem so ugly to me, honestly.
Doesn't seem so ugly to me, honestly.
There are some pieces the artist departs from the letter of the page while still capturing the spirit or vice versa (useful for technically analysing the piece) or by eschewing both and radically reinterpreting the music to the extent its practically a different piece. Quality will never capture the sheer range of artistic and interpretive beauty inherent to any given piece or available through good old stochastic performance.