Recorded accompaniments for soloists to play along with are not new. The first Music Minus One recording was made in 1950, and the series has since grown to encompass nearly 900 classical and jazz titles.
As a student, I used to love practising Mozart’s Horn Concertos with a Music Minus One album from my local library. Hearing myself accompanied by an orchestra opened up a whole new world of sound and was great fun, but it had one major drawback: the tempo was fixed and allowed no room for rubato. Cadenzas were particularly problematic as the pause for improvisation was always the same length, concluding with a bar of loud clicks to coordinate the re-entry. So, for more musical results, it was still necessary to work with a real pianist.
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