Tutta colpa della Nona?


La dannosa durata dei cd deriva dalla Nona di Beethoven.



Beethoven's Ninth Symphony may also have influenced the development of the compact disc. Philips, the company that had started the work on the new audio format, originally planned for a CD to have a diameter of 11.5 cm, while Sony planned a 10 cm diameter needed for one hour of music. However, according to a Philips website, Norio Ohga insisted in 1979 that the CD be able to contain a complete performance of the Ninth Symphony:
(...)''The longest known performance lasted 74 minutes. This was a mono recording made during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. This therefore became the playing time of a CD. A diameter of 12 centimeters was required for this playing time.(...)
However, Kees Immink, Philips' chief engineer, who developed the CD, denies this, claiming that the increase was motivated by technical considerations, and that even after the increase in size, the Furtwängler recording was not able to fit onto the earliest CDs.

Quindi, il peggioramento della qualita' compositiva di molti dischi inutilmente lunghi di certi artisti (vedi the Rising di Brooce), e' dovuto alla durata dell'esecuzione piu' lunga della Nona.

Naaa. o invece si?
Ma non erano meglio i dischi da 45 minuti al massimo? (vedi le uscite del '71, o quello in foto)

Pubblicato: Mar - Giugno 3, 2008 ; M-O-D Music On Demand   Music  

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