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 ;
