[mb-style] RFC: Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[Aaron Cooper]

On 7-Feb-08, at 4:17 AM, symphonick wrote:

>>    3.      If there is a CONDUCTOR who performed on all tracks, the
>> conductor is the Release Artist.
>
> Isn't this just the opposite of what we're doing in RelesaseTitles:
> "Foo Orchestra feat. conductor: Bar Fu" (orchestra first?)

Yes.  We could have been writing "Herbert von Karajan conducting  
Berliner Philharmoniker" I think.  Both mean the same thing to us.   
Does writing the orchestra first mean we think it's more important?  I  
guess that's something we have to decide.

Personally, I think the conductor *is* more important than the  
orchestra.  Orchestras change over time with musicians leaving/ 
joining, etc.  I don't think we can pin a specific "style" or "sound"  
to an orchestra as easily as we can for a conductor.  IMO, conductors  
have more effect on the music because they are directing the tempo,  
dynamics, etc. of the performance.

-Aaron