Record companies can be astonishingly dozy about this kind of thing - e.g. splitting Mahler 2 anywhere except after the first movement ("Hier folgt eine Pause von mindestens 5 Minuten!")
But the (excellent, on what I've heard so far) Sanderling / Philharmonia Beethoven set I picked up cheaply in Tokyo really takes the biscuit. The first disk has the Eroica and the First but there's not room for them both so the finale of the first is on disk FIVE(!!!) before the Ninth.
Any other shockers out there?
But the (excellent, on what I've heard so far) Sanderling / Philharmonia Beethoven set I picked up cheaply in Tokyo really takes the biscuit. The first disk has the Eroica and the First but there's not room for them both so the finale of the first is on disk FIVE(!!!) before the Ninth.
Any other shockers out there?
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