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Bruce McKinney <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:19:59 -0800
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Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>I sometimes wonder why a decision is made to provide more than the
>necessary number of tracks on a CD. ...  At the other end of the scale,
>my latest Berkshire parcel contained Pettersson's Symphony No 13 on cpo,
>which contains one 67-minute track.  Does anyone know of any more extreme
>cases?

The original pressing of the Dutoit Daphnis et Chloe had one track for
the entire ballet.  Ditto for the Davis/Concertgebouw complete Firebird
ballet.  At least, in the Dutoit case, later pressings had multiple
tracks.

Bruce

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