I've been following the discussion with some interest, so I thought I'd weigh in with my own ideas on this very interesting topic. I agree that the repeats are there for a reason, and certainly whenever my duo records a piece, we leave them in, and adjust the repertoire so as to fit any time limit. Live performances, however, are a different thing. I used to be a fanatic about always doing all repeats as being the only historically accurate way of doing things... 'till I heard no less than Malcolm Bilson point out that Mozart himself was quite cavalier about the whole matter, and left them in, or took them out according to how the piece would fit the rest of the programme. So... in the spirit of HIP, when programme timing requires it, we do the same. This usually involves omitting repeats in sonata-allegro movements, or those of longer sections, where the lack of the repeat, in the ephemeral medium of live performance, will not be missed as much. There are some pieces, though, where I will *never* omit the repeats; for example, the Diabelli Variations, the Goldberg, or any of the late sonatas of Beethoven. There are others as well, and I admit that it is a judgement call, but as I said above, apparently Mozart exercised this kind of judgement all the time, and who am I to question good, mainstream HIP?:-) Cordially, Leslie Kinton The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. Anagnoson and Kinton piano duo website: http://www.pianoduo.com