Karl Miller wrote:

> ... Ok, for ten points, and without looking, what is the fastest
>recorded first movement of the Eroica...I guessed right, not because
>I knew them all but I knew one that seemed the fastest when I heard
>it.

Well I've lost count of my Eroicas - somewhere around 140 at a guess.
I'm assuming the question means what it says, i.e.  quickest tempo, not
shortest recording, in case the repeat is not observed.

While I don't think I've heard them *all* I'd have to go for either
Albert Coates (1926, no repeat but tuba audibly doubling the basses, in
a holdover from the acoustic-era practice) or Hermann Scherchen (1958,
with repeat) and probably, without relistening, go for the latter.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept.

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