Karl Miller wrote: > ... Ok, for ten points, and without looking, what is the fastest >recorded first movement of the Eroica...I guessed right, not because >I knew them all but I knew one that seemed the fastest when I heard >it. Well I've lost count of my Eroicas - somewhere around 140 at a guess. I'm assuming the question means what it says, i.e. quickest tempo, not shortest recording, in case the repeat is not observed. While I don't think I've heard them *all* I'd have to go for either Albert Coates (1926, no repeat but tuba audibly doubling the basses, in a holdover from the acoustic-era practice) or Hermann Scherchen (1958, with repeat) and probably, without relistening, go for the latter. Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html