Karl Miller ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>We have a winner...Albert Coates at 12 min 6 sec.  Amongst the longest,
>Asahina with the New Japan Philharmonic at 21 min 3 sec. The Eroica page
>http://www.grunin.com/eroica/intro.htm also includes first movement
>comparisons at Beats Per Minute.  Coates at 170.93 and Asahina at 120.94
>376 performances are in the survey.

Ah, you need to look at the first movement bpm (beats per minute).

Coates is, as I suspected, the *shortest* first movement, but he omits
the repeat.

Scherchen is the *fastest*, his first mvt bpm figure is 174.53 as
opposed to the 170.93 of Coates.

>So for me, the question is why...

Why collect the Eroica? Why perform it at wildly varying tempos?

Deryk Barker
http: turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca/Deryk

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