Re: Re: Planets Recording.


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Posted by Chuck Jackson on September 07, 2003 at 19:38:19:

In Reply to: Re: Planets Recording. posted by Matt on September 07, 2003 at 18:16:04:

Given the prevailing recording technology of the time, Holst would have had to rush his tempos to get either 1. An entire movement onto one side of an old shellac disk, or 2. Gotten to a good point to take a break to start over on a new disk.

I don't think that the tempos that the composers took may have been to their liking, but were forced to by prevailing technology. I have a recording of Beethoven's 9th from 1928 that is so fast as to be deemed unplayable by my accomplished violinist wife. The orchestra sounds horrible.

Chuck


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