Is this the longest pressed CD yet?

[Ferretfancy]

I'd be tempted, but I'm on this gum which is supposed to help me not buy CDs.

Where can I buy a packet ?

After the length, what about the performance ? I've only been able to sample so far, but the engineers obviously had trouble in the RAH. The grandiose moments come over fairly well, although the orchestra gets loss during the choral climaxes in the Dies Irae, and when the Tuba mirum begins, Nesterenko seems about as far away as the Albert Memorial. Not one for the archive.

[Roehre]

Where can I buy a packet ?

' know that feeling

After the length, what about the performance ? I've only been able to sample so far, but the engineers obviously had trouble in the RAH. The grandiose moments come over fairly well, although the orchestra gets loss during the choral climaxes in the Dies Irae, and when the Tuba mirum begins, Nesterenko seems about as far away as the Albert Memorial. Not one for the archive.

No one to cherish I'm afraid, and some of the soprano solos got a vibrato wide enough to park a bicycle in it.

[PJPJ]

Hot news:

Brett Dean - The Lost Art of Letter Writing

BIS Boss Robert von Bahr: ".... one of the Unique Selling Points with this physical SACD Hybrid is that it is the longest in the world, with its 86'22...."

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There have been double sided DVDs (known as "flippers") and I bought quite a few in the early days. But unlike double sided CDs, these were all of standard thickness.

Yes; the BBC's release of the House of Cards trilogy is so packaged - very difficult to read which side is which!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes; the BBC's release of the House of Cards trilogy is so packaged - very difficult to read which side is which!

The problem about double-sided CDs and DVDs is that they have to be labelled "a" or "b" on the side opposite to that being played.

But returning to conventional single sided CDs, one of the discs in the new 40CD Decca Phase 4 box contains Offebach's Gaite Parisienne, Respighi's Pines of Rome AND Fountains of Rome.

Total playing time: 83' 13"

[pastoralguy]

The new Dvorak symphonies and concerto discs from Jiri Belohlavek and the Czech Philharmonic on Decca have...

Disc 1. 83.38

Disc 2. 81.19

Disc 3. 74.56

Disc 4. 83.52

Disc 5. 80.40

Disc 6. 80.31

Terrific value...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Amazing.

They'll be getting Mahler 3 on one CD at this rate.

[Beef Oven!]

The latest edition of the BBC Music Magazine has Pritchard's 1988 Prom performance of Verdi's Requiem as its cover disc. At a grand total timing of 82' 32", is this a new record[sic] for a pressed (as against 'burned') CD?

More than 20 years ago I bought a few Maxim Shostakovich, LSO Shostakovich symphonies on Collins Classics and one of them was over 82 minutes.

So this sort of timing has a precedent from more than 20 years ago.

I can't put my hands on the CDs at the moment, they're in a spare room, I think.

When I do, I'll post what the symphony and couplings are.

UPDATE: By a process of elimination, I think it was Symphony #15 & Incidental Music To 'The Gadfly', from circa 24 years ago.

I will confirm when I locate the actual CD.

[Petrushka]

More than 20 years ago I bought a few Maxim Shostakovich, LSO Shostakovich symphonies on Collins Classics and one of them was over 82 minutes.

So this sort of timing has a precedent from more than 20 years ago.

I can't put my hands on the CDs at the moment, they're in a spare room, I think.

When I do, I'll post what the symphony and couplings are.

UPDATE: By a process of elimination, I think it was Symphony #15 & Incidental Music To 'The Gadfly', from circa 24 years ago.

I will confirm when I locate the actual CD.

I've got that CD so no need to root around in the spare room. It's actually the Symphony No 15 and Incidental Music to The Gadfly and it clocks in at 80' 34''. Released in 1991.

[Beef Oven!]

I've got that CD so no need to root around in the spare room. It's actually the Symphony No 15 and Incidental Music to The Gadfly and it clocks in at 80' 34''. Released in 1991.

A pretty long CD for 23 years ago!

[cloughie]

Amazing.

They'll be getting Mahler 3 on one CD at this rate.

There is one - Mitropoulos NYPO - needless to say it has cuts within!

[gurnemanz]

Amazing.

They'll be getting Mahler 3 on one CD at this rate.

This suggests a sub-category: longest single-work CD. Mine seems to be Bernstein's Concertgebouw Missa Solemnis at 81.15.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I wonder what the time limit is, i.e. when the pits start falling off the edge of the CD.

[mikealdren]

More worrying, what's the shortest CD you've seen?

[aeolium]

More worrying, what's the shortest CD you've seen?

One must be the Carlos Kleiber Brahms 4th symphony - around 40 minutes.