[mb-style] Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Feb 12, 2008 5:28 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 4, 2008 4:53 AM, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bach had absolutely
> > *nothing* to do with releasing his music in 2006. There were a group
> > of performers who wanted to play them, so they released recordings.
> > We've come up with an objective/systematic way to determine who the
> > most important performer is.  I think it's logical to assume that
> > whoever performs on all tracks was probably the primary performer with
> > other featured performers filling in the gaps (you can't play a piano
> > concerto on your new CD without an orchestra).
> >
>
> Nothing to do? If he hadn't composed it in the first place, the release
> would be full of silence. The inheritors of recent composers (Stravinsky,
> Bartok, Prokofiev, Barber...) probably still get something each time a CD of
> their ancestor is sold. The fact that Bach or Mozart died so long ago that
> they can't control what is done with their music has only legal and
> commercial consequences, not artistic. So if we want to use this kind of
> considerations, please use a contemporary composer. When a CD from a living
> composer is released, does the composer have something to do with it?


Oh, and Rachminov (performer) had nothing to do with the release of the
"Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov" CD. Having something to do with a release is
a matter of time and Public Domain.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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