[mb-style] Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[Aaron Cooper]

On 13-Feb-08, at 4:45 AM, Chris B wrote:
> On 12/02/2008, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12-Feb-08, at 11:28 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> If a contemporary composer wrote the music for inclusion on an album
>> of theirs, then it makes sense for them to be the release artist.   
>> But
>> old composers and probably many contemporary composers did not write
>> music for 80-minute CDs.  It's different when a performer takes the
>> compositions and puts them together on an album.  They are  
>> "releasing"
>> material that may be by one or many composers.
>
> so what about for old recordings that are released with no involvement
> of either the performer or the composer? or bootlegs? what if it was
> the conductor who orchestrated (pun intended) the release?

The steps are to determine who is the most likely to have been the one  
releasing the album.  We choose the common performer and set them as  
the Release Artist.

-Aaron