Copyright on Rachmaninoff's Own Recordings?

[nmitchell076]

This seems sort of strange place for this, but the description of the board did say recordings, I would have figured it would have gone under misc.

Anyways, does anyone know when Rachmaninoff's piano recordings (both of his own works and his work with others, such as Fritz Kreisler) come into the public domain?

[pianist1976]

I'm not completely sure but I think they came to public domain in 1993 (50 years after the death of the author).

[keyboardclass]

I believe it differs for recordings - 50 years after they're released.  That's why Cliff Richard is in such a palava.

[nmitchell076]

Well if that's the case, then shouldn't the complete recordings be available online for free?  If so, then does anyone know where?

[keyboardclass]

It's hardly commercially viable to give stuff away.  If you're good with torrents: https://www.kickasstorrents.com/sergei-rachmaninoff-rachmaninoff-plays-rachmaninoff-milana-t2406429.html In fact I might just download that myself!

[richard black]

Yes, 50 years after first public release of a recording, in practically all countries. If they're not available for free it's simply because no one has yet felt like spending the time and money (after all, servers and bandwidth cost something) to put them up.

[nmitchell076]

If anyone is interested, I did find one site that claims to have em all, it's in Russian though, and I haven't verified whether this is, in fact, the entirety of his discography, but regardles: https://www.senar.ru/records/

[keyboardclass]

Great site!