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Billy Kitson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:26:00 +1000
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Achim Breiling wrote:

>Just a stupid question: Why did they do these cuts? To make the work fit
>to whatever (LP, radio broadcast) or to omit some too difficult passages?

I seem to recall that All (3?) of Rach's Symphonies were subjected to Cuts
"even as late" as the 60's & 70's, weren't they?? Weren't the "whole lot"
considered too "prolix" - "long-winded"?? I aint sure as it is YearS since
I "paid attention" to Rach's Symphonies??

Bill(Y) [Baroque & Broke].

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