I recently made a new record­ing and film of Gabriella Smith’s Imag­i­nary Pancake, which she wrote for me in 2020. Why re-record? The first version I made was part of my pandemic-era “Carnegie recital from home”; I’d had about two months with the piece at that point. Now, nearly five years later, having performed the piece many times, working it up and letting it lie fallow in cycles, I feel more that it is “my” piece, in a way. Not to say it isn’t still Gabriella’s—surely nobody else could’ve written it—but I think I’ve mostly surmounted its signif­i­cant tech­ni­cal diffi­cul­ties and inter­nal­ized its char­ac­ter­is­tic peaks and valleys. Not to mention, the new record­ing reflects five years of studio upgrades and knowl­edge gained about the record­ing process. Good to be reminded that world premieres are often a rough outline of what’s to come.