Help with a classical release: recording artists, composers etc

MusicBrainz
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Sigh…
I imported a multi-composer album from Discogs
On MB:

On Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/release/29052724
Page on the Naxos catalogue:

I know I need to add works for a couple of the tracks, that shouldn’t be a problem…

My problem is the artists…
At the moment I have a list of composers as the recording artists.
I know the recording artists should be Sàndor Rigò & Christina Leeb-Grill - they both play on all tracks. - How do I change this please?

I have each individual composer as the track artist for their respective tracks - is that correct?

The release artist should be all the composers and bother performers, right? How do I change that?

Really sorry for bungling this, I bit off more than I can chew here, I think… but I do want to get it right, so any help would be appreciated and I don’t mind if anyone wants to curse me as they do it…

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Bit of everything:

Yes, the performers should be added after a semicolon, so: “D’Rivera, Françaix, Milhaud, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos, Whitney; Sàndor Rigò, Christina Leeb-Grill”. Just edit the release artist.

This is a lot more annoying. You could change it by going to each recording, but most of us (I assume) use a script for that (this one although I’m not sure if there’s a newer fork somewhere or this one works as-is).

Other comments: “op.” should be lowercase (which is very minor of course). The dates for the works shouldn’t really be on the titles - they can and should be on the appropriate artist-work relationships. And since the recordings already correctly list the performers, there’s no need to have them also at the release level; you can delete them from there :slight_smile:

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Thank you for your help, I will go through all this this evening…

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I’ve been doing it this way:

  1. Edit the track artists on the medium to be what I want on the recordings.
  2. Check the “Copy all track artist credits to associated recordings” option and submit the edit.
  3. Cancel the edit of the medium.

I didn’t know about that script, so I’ve installed it and am trying to figure out how to get it to work. So far, no luck.

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The script relies on the “performer” and\or instruments to have been setup in relationships.

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Yeah, I’m beginning to see that. None of that was set up on the release I was looking at.

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The relationships are really a lot more useful and important than changing the recording artist, in any case. If you are going to make an extra effort, it’s a lot better to do it towards more relationship completeness. The rest is (usually) trivial later :slight_smile:

But yes, that script depends on relationships being set - otherwise, it doesn’t know the performers to set :slight_smile:

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Thanks for this! I’ve added my first classical album from scratch (no Discogs importing this time)
Although I set the relationships I couldn’t see the prompt from the script anywhere… at what point should it have showed up? (and what does it look like?)
Did the recording artists manually because I want them to show up in my Listenbrainz!

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It should appear on the side of the release page (not the relationship editor):

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(ignore the other userscript there - or don’t, it’s also useful, but it’s not related to the question :smiley: )

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Thank you, very clear!

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