'extant recording' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is usually used to describe a recording that still exists in its original form and is available for use. For example: "The sound engineer was delighted to find the extant recording of the band's 1983 performance still in perfect condition."
But his droll monologue about trying to play folk songs for his wife's modern-dance troupe is hilarious, "Grand Coulee Dam" bounds with energy, and a dramatic "Tom Joad" is the best extant recording of his greatest song.
In 1980, at the age of fifteen, she wrote a piece called "Glora," which is the only extant recording of her as a flutist (Björk included the track on her 2002 box set, "Family Tree"); the playing is pristine, the music a little like the beginning of the second part of "The Rite of Spring".
He aims to limit any declamatory delivery of the vocal lines — a problem in the opera's extant recording that misrepresents the artistry of a composer who was also a master songwriter — and give the music grace and energy that will move the plot inexorably forward.
The first extant recorded use was by Duncan II, the "Rex Scotie," in 1094.
Collin was able to include on the film's soundtrack clips from the only extant recorded interview with Helen Morgan (who died in 1996), and he also interviews leading musicians who knew the couple and worked with Lee Morgan, including Wayne Shorter, Charli Persip, and Jymie Merritt, as well as Morgan's friend Judith Johnson, who was with him the night of his death.
The first extant recorded examination of this subject was in ancient Greece.
Such books as the Yugi ("Extant Records"), Shinjip ("New Compilation"), Sŏgi ("Documentary Records"), and Kuksa ("National History"), all collections of historical records, were compiled in Chinese.
Mr. Assayas, hewing close if not slavishly to the extant record, lines up his facts with care, even as he puts his own spin on the story.
The extant records and reports from the 15th century are as a rule from Christian sources or from the tales of travelers.
Numbers of this size actually occur in extant records concerning royal estates and may have been commonplace in the logistics and engineering of the great pyramids.
Such arches and domes imply the existence of sophisticated timber formwork to support them during construction, as well as advanced lifting machinery, but there are no extant records of either.
