This is a quote from the MCPS email I received after having a little "wrangle" with them about some classical sound recordings I did for a customer.

Makes it a bit clearer I think!

"As you point out, it is an infringement of the copyright in sound recordings to make a copy of a work without the express written permission of the copyright owner, so long as the recording is in copyright (i.e. up to 50 years after the original release date). The copyright in the musical work embodied in the sound recording lasts for 70 years after the death of the composer"


whb