Re: [OT] Classical music, anyone?

Taki Kogoma <quirk@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-11-29, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
allegedly proclaimed to rec.arts.sf.written:
In article <fin78h$2ie6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Patrick Baldwin <pax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK. You might start with a recording of the *real* Beethoven's
Ninth. I have heard the version you describe (it was played as
walking-in music at the Morrison Planetarium once), and I didn't
know what the hell it was till later: "Gosh, it's the fourth
movement of the Ninth in an instrumental-only arrangement, but
what's wrong with it? It's so mechanical!" Well, turned out
that was the idea.

I'm definitely going to check that out first then;
I like the version I heard, so a less mechanical one
sounds like a guaranteed win.

So get a good CD of the Ninth and listen to the whole thing....

That's fascinating. This sounds like something that will
benefit from having a big chunk of time to listen to
the whole thing straight through, which is perfect for
my many, many 1+ car trips.

Running time for the 9th is c. 76 minutes.

(There's a legend about why the Compact Disc format wasn't an even 60
minutes; Sony's chairman insisted that the Herbert von Karajan/Berlin
Philharmonic version of the 9th must fit, and it clocked in at 76
minutes and change. I have no idea of there is any reality associated
with the story.)

Is this a version of it I should keep an eye out for
in particular? Kinda a gold standard version?

~P.

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