My favorite overstuffed LP's would have to be Murray Hill's issue of the
Fuertwaengler La Scala Ring Cycle which boasts "up to 43 minutes a side."
Sonics are (to be charitable) not the best, but what a performance!
When I was in Zlin supervising my 1993 recordings I encountered a conductor
who had a contract to record a Dvorak opera for Albany records. He was
told that he would have to bring it it in 72 minutes or less even if it
meant abridging the music.
Aaron J. Rabushka
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