Philip Harding ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>William Strother wrote:
>
>>I used to own them in the lp days.  They were well recorded and well
>>played, but they were absent first-movement repeats, if that is important
>>to you.  They represented a style of playing now largely missing in these
>>plastic times.
>
>Pardon my confusion, but what do you mean by, "they were absent
>first-movement repeats"? Thanks.

They didn't have them. A slightly archaic use of 'absent' to mean
'without' but perfectly good English.

Deryk Barker
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[To be even a little clearer: I think Deryk means that the Budapest
 performances did not include the first movement exposition repeats -
 the absolute necessity of which is a hotly debated topic.  Search
the archives for threads with the word "repeat" in the title.  -Dave]