[mb-users] ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle: "Primary" artist

[Andrew Conkling]

On 1/7/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/1/7, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com>:
> > Another release:
> > http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=579782, where the
> > Quartet plays on all tracks, but with extra (different) performers on
> > all but one track.
>
> Thus, Richter would apply, and so does the Takács Quartet, "saved" by
> the 6th track. But here, the criterion seems so flimsy (one small
> track, which does not even appear on the first cover) that I don't
> really feel even my "objective" criterion applies.

Well, I could see saying that the Quartet takes the release because
they're at the "center" of it all. There's a bassist on all but one
track, true, but you're still mostly listening to a T Quartet release.

This was interestingly just brought up on another edit:
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6246146. Seems like at least
someone else is reading it that way, but again, I don't think that
release has grounds to leave it under the CSO; you could argue that
the artistic direction was happening more at the hands of Reiner than
the orchestra. (I would have argued the same about Kleiber, though a
concerto is a bit different.)