Repeats?

Bazza's getting nervous as 8.00 approaches.  But I'm not sure that helps, 50m.

Chris, you weren't wrong. Darn that Bale.

Reading through all the posts in this fascinating thread, I reach a disappointing conclusion.

I wrote in my first response that we live in an age where taking every possible repeat seems to be considered necessary, especially in recordings. Reading all the subsequent posts it is obvious that most of think that is going too far or much too far.  And yet there is precious little consensus, in practical terms, on when repeats should be taken. I can't help but think that if I were a record producer reading these posts, I would likely conclude that the safest thing to do is to include the lot: anything else is likely to annoy someone somewhere. Perhaps that's why they do it!

Chris

PS: Bazza: sorry about the result. My Chelsea-supporter friends were all hoping for a different result too!

But even Karajan didn't dare not repeating Beethoven 5 expo.

However I never found an explanantion why he always repeated the 8th expo.

Quite a can of worms opened. On a general basis I tend to agree with the first 2 paras of Parla's first comment, although for some reason I'm less bothered about repeats in orchestral works than piano.  I have a single sided LP where Arrau is discussing the Beethoven 32 and he states repeats must be observed.

Some interesting comments though on particular works in particular Schubert D960. I'm surprised Brendel misses it but if he does then perhaps it's not surprising his former students Paul Lewis & Imogen Cooper do too. None of my recordings (and none of the live performances I've heard) include the rather odd linking passage referred to by Chris, until recently that is,  and when playing Juana Zayas's rather good (and stunningly recorded) version for the first time this passage greatly startled me in a work I thought I thought I knew pretty well! Schnabel still takes first prize for me though but not being a Richter fan haven't heard his critically divisive version (heard him once live in the 1960s when he was being much hyped - big disappointment).

With regard to H-D's comment on Britten's Mozart 40 this did provoke some critical comment at the time and I do think the very long 2nd mov unbalances the performance. With regard to Schubert 9, much as I rate Pritchard's performance the fact that he takes more repeats than any other recording (according to the Penguin Guide) can perhaps make it a little tedious...

With regard to Chris's last comment the medium has perhaps changed the message. In 78 days if repeats necessitated an extra side or sides there would have been a commercial disadvantage and even in LP days time limitations could have had more effect than today, so now include them all!

1947? Cheeky bugger! LOL