[mb-style] RFC[?]: Update Classical Style Guide to account for"recital discs"

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/10/2, Marco Sola <marcosola at oksatcom.it>:
>
> Dave Smey wrote:
> > My proposed language would be: "Recitals by a particular artist: In
> > cases where a release contains works from multiple composers but all
> > works are attributable to a single group or performer, that group or
> > performer may
> > be designated the ReleaseArtist, with each TrackArtist assigned to the
> > appropriate composer."
>
> Long time ago I did a test conversion (which btw I did not reverted) and
> asked for comments/veto. At that time no one agreed. A longest debate and
> examples are on CSGD.
>
> Release is here:
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/ab41dfc4-faab-4e1c-ac7e-c07752dd3395.html
>
> > Using the modal verb "may" makes it flexible enough for people to use
> > their judgement, since, as has been pointed out, there are still
> > "in-between" releases out there that have multiple composers & a
> > single performer but still seem like VA (because there is basically
> > *no* emphasis on the performer.)
>
> The problem that arises is here is to have a clear rule to say which
> performers deserves this: there are releases that are really clearly
> printed
> only to credit performers, mainly for opera. Thinking about it it seem
> quite
> easy to tell who and who don't but in fact we have to admit this could
> lead
> to "eternal flames".
>
> Ciao
>
> MArco (Clutcher2)


Quite, and this is why I suggested we should put limits. We could say for
example that we should be careful not create artificial groups, or we are
going to have a proliferation of classical groups (this conductor with that
orchestra, this conductor with this orchestra and that soloist, this singer
with that singer...).

Actually even this is dangerous, because someone would for example create a
group for Karajan+Berlin (fully justified, they were associated often and
long enough to warrant the creation of a group), but then nothing would
prevent the creation of an AR between the tracks of a normal release and
this group (instead of two separate ARs).


-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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