Bert Bailey:

> But does it mean, though, that any classical movements or pieces
> of longer than three minutes' duration were previously
> broken up over several 78 rpm records?

Oh, yes.  And before record changers, it meant suspending your attention
while you changed the record.  Even with LPs, there sometimes were broken
movements.  Bruno Walter's Columbia recording on LP of Mahler's Titan
Symphony has a break in the middle of the funeral march; at least the
music does have a rest at that point.

> Also, can anyone on the List tell me when the first release of multi-LP
> albums, classical or otherwise, took place?  I expect this would mean
> the first time a 2-LP album was released.

This is a bit difficult unless you just happen to know because for some
reason record companies did not used to date the albums, often putting
a Library of Congress cataloging-record number on, instead.  But memory
tells me that there were multi disc LPs just about as soon as the LP
first appeared, for operas especially.

Jim Tobin

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