Classical style - orchestra vs list of artists in recording credit?

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@krefson1

any attempt to keep up would result in an unwieldy list of artist entries of departed members.

In fact, full historical membership lists for orchestras would be fantastic data, even if it takes three pages to display it all

@krefson1

there is long list of individual player and singer credits in addition to the orchestra. In my CD booklet these are explicitly listed as members of “La Chapelle Royale - Collegium Vocale”, which are also credited as orchestra and choir. In effect each is credited twice. Is this in accord with the MB style?

If we know who performed specifically on each track, I see no reason not to credit them. A different question is whether we really know this (are they all on all tracks, or did some members play on some but not others?).

The recording artists are set to the credited ensembles, which seems correct. As per the recent discussion in What to do? Trio name and individual members credited some of us like having the ensembles also linked as relationships even if the members are known, while some others don’t, but it’s in any case not wrong. Ideally we could say “X performed on Y as a member of Z” but that’s not something we can do at the moment.