Please critique and vote on fake classical release

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I would appreciate some discussion/comments/votes on the release I have just entered.

which is an example of a fake/bootleg budget classical release, though it does not feature in Alfred Scholtz’ oevre as far as I am able to determine. The orchestra and conductor are completely fictitious, and the label is very dubious.

I entered this as a new release in the release group from which I am fairly sure the actual recordings are taken. The MB guidance in Budget recordings of Alfred Scholz - MusicBrainz Wiki does not give a clear steer on how to handle the recordings, even though all share an acoustid and the discid is the same. Audibly they sound the same too. (You can stream the original Maag/Philharmonia recordings at https://app.idagio.com/albums/schubert-symphony-no-9-in-c-major-d-944-great-FE5427A7-C06C-45C1-93BA-54279692ED4E

A key question for the MB tyros is this - I entered the new recordings with an “edit of” relationship to the true ones. Clearly they can’t be merged since the artist credits differ. If a “bootleg of” recording-recording relationship existed it might be a better fit….

Have I chosen the best way to handle this?

P.S. Release “Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 9 "The Great" - Sinfonie Nr. 9 "Die Große" - Symphonie N° 9 "La Grande"” by Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Manfred Weißmüller & Franz Schubert - MusicBrainz

also purports to have the same label, condictor and catalogue number, though the orchestra is different - and the track lengths differ too.

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If they are the same recordings, then they should be merged. And the new conductor removed from the credits and instead added to the Annotation.

I don’t know enough about classical editing, but if the recordings are the same then they are the same.

If the credits are faked this should not change the recordings.

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I think the current CSG agrees with this.

However, I also think that this type of release exposes one of the shortcomings of the CSG’s advice to put the performers only on the recording. Doing so prevents MB from acknowledging that different releases credit the performers differently (sometimes because of fakery, as in this release, but also due to language, etc.).

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Tricky situation, and I don’t immediately have a strong opinion on your open edits.

I do think that some disambiguation labels are in order. And the “real” release should have the performers added to the release artist, they are clearly featured on the cover.