More beginners questions on editing and entering classical music

I entered a new release to a release group because the tracks were found by musicbrainz but the cover art and barcode were different: Release “English Suite no. 6, BWV 811 / Italian Concerto, BWV 971 / Toccata, BWV 911 / 4 Duets, BWV 802-805” by Johann Sebastian Bach; Angela Hewitt - MusicBrainz.
You probably can tell me a couple of things that should be done differently, but I am specifically unsure about the following points:

  1. This release has its title in several lines. In a first attempt (the edit is still open) I marked the line break with a comma, however I am not sure if it should be a slash “/”.
  2. I also took over all the relationships for the tracks. However, I cannot confirm e.g. the recording place and so as this data is not given on my CD. Given the pubslihing date, I expect that it is the same recording, but I cannot be 100% sure.
  3. I started renaming the tracks to be the same as on the CD, but this is a lot of work, and as the work is already correctly in the relationship I think it is not worth the effort. I would rather enter more data from my other CDs in this time.
  4. I am confused why there are two relationships for each track to the work: one on the left hand side (recording of) and the related work on the right hand side. Does the recording of field add any value or is it normally sufficient to enter the related work?

Those are the same thing. The “recording of” is the link between the recording and the work, and it’s shown on the left because it mostly affects the recording. The rest of the work relationships are shown on the right. But the work is only linked once :slight_smile:

That’s probably fine, if you’re relatively sure it’s the same recording. In most cases the same artist only records a work once for a specific label at most, but there are exceptions (and often the exceptions would be this sort of repertoire). Hopefully it’s ok here :slight_smile:

Both of these are kinda similar, in that ideally you’d follow what is printed exactly, but nobody is likely going to be super angry if you don’t - ideally, if you’re not doing so, you can leave an edit note or annotation so that others can tell that there’s something left to improve, I guess? :slight_smile:

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