Plex’s inadequate support of classical music is, unfortunately, a long-standing issue. To be fair, it’s a complex puzzle. The root of the problem is that Plex does not support all of the available metadata tags that would allow it to properly catalog these albums. I have written a feature request to improve that, but until that happens, the only solution that works for me is to do the following:
- Make the Album Artist the composer (ex., “Beethoven”)
- Make the Artist the orchestra, or orchestra and conductor (ex., “Berlin Philharmonic” or “Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan”)
In Plex, the Album Detail page will appear like this:
On Beethoven’s Artist Detail page, you would see this:
Or you could choose to view it in Detail View, and add text to the Review tag identifying conductor/orchestra:
Now, I’m not one to have 20 copies of Beethoven’s symphonies by different orchestras in my library. But this scheme would seem to be the only practical one, even in that case, until Plex expands its support for more tags.
