Deryk remembers the old days (though he is really too young!):

> Much of the standard Viennese symphonic repertoire couldn't fit one
> movement onto a 3-4 minute side, so something like Beethoven's Eroica
> or 9th would spread over multiple sides.  There was even an early
> recording of a Bruckner symphony in which the scherzo was on just
> two sides: you turned it over for the trio and then replayed the
> first side for the repeat of the scherzo!

Ah yes!  I had that 78 album.  It was Bruckner's 9th.  Can't remember
who was playing, but the music made a huge impression on me.  It was at
about that time that I bought the Berlioz Requiem -- 22 78 rpm sides!
Changed my life!

David Lamb in Seattle

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