I'm reading H.C. Robbins Landon's Mozart - The Golden Years with great enjoyment and came across this on the Prague symphony (p.184): "This work has no minuet, but if performed uncut (i.e. with all its repeats) its three movements still last nearly forty minutes (my emphasis)."
I immediately rushed to check timings on my SCO/Mackerras recording: 17'44" + 11'18" + 7'45" = something around 37 minutes. Is HCRL's 'nearly forty minutes' this loose, or does Mackerras still not play 'all its repeats'? (I don't have a score unfortunately.)
In his EMI cycle I observe that Jeffrey Tate takes more than three minutes more in the Andante, so is it just Mackerras's faster tempo here that stops him getting much closer to 40 mins?
What's the longest performance known to boarders??
I immediately rushed to check timings on my SCO/Mackerras recording: 17'44" + 11'18" + 7'45" = something around 37 minutes. Is HCRL's 'nearly forty minutes' this loose, or does Mackerras still not play 'all its repeats'? (I don't have a score unfortunately.)
In his EMI cycle I observe that Jeffrey Tate takes more than three minutes more in the Andante, so is it just Mackerras's faster tempo here that stops him getting much closer to 40 mins?
What's the longest performance known to boarders??
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