I guess there are two questions here:
1) What is the shortest piece in standard repertoire, i.e. that you would normally expect to hear at a mainstream concert?
2) What is the shortest piece of all, counting the most obscure modernist composer or whatever
Score to beat for the first question, i.e. the shortest piece I know of, and the germ for this thread, is Beethoven's Bagatelle Op.119/10, which in my Kovacevich recording clocks in at 11 seconds. As for the second question I have no idea.
possibly
http://www.johncage.info/workscage/000.html
Quote from: James on June 04, 2011, 12:22:03 AM
He was meaning 'music' not bullshit Luke.
tee hee ;D
Quote from: James on June 04, 2011, 12:22:03 AM
He was meaning 'music' not bullshit Luke.
Yeah really.
There is a recitative in Bach's St. Matthew Passion that clocks in at only 3 seconds. That is at least the shortest bit I have in my collection.
Quote from: DavidW on June 04, 2011, 08:00:57 AM
There is a recitative in Bach's St. Matthew Passion that clocks in at only 3 seconds. That is at least the shortest bit I have in my collection.
Which one is that?
Quote from: Opus106 on June 04, 2011, 08:12:24 AM
Which one is that?
Copying the title-- "St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), for soloists, double chorus & double orchestra, BWV 244 (BC D3b): 50a. Recitative -Evangelist: Sie schrieen aber noch mehr" which is on disc 3 of the recording I have Cleobury.
Quote from: DavidW on June 04, 2011, 08:17:43 AM
Copying the title-- "St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), for soloists, double chorus & double orchestra, BWV 244 (BC D3b): 50a. Recitative -Evangelist: Sie schrieen aber noch mehr" which is on disc 3 of the recording I have Cleobury.
Thanks. It's combined with two other choral parts and two more Evangelist recitatives in one track lasting for 1:50 in the version I have. :)
Quote from: Opus106 on June 04, 2011, 08:28:54 AM
Thanks. It's combined with two other choral parts and two more Evangelist recitatives in one track lasting for 1:50 in the version I have. :)
That makes more sense, tracks by the seconds are to torture those that don't have gapless playback! :D
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 04, 2011, 07:43:45 AM
Yeah really.
For goodness sake, I answered the question, didn't I? It
is (potentially) 'the shortest piece of all, counting the most obscure modernist composer or whatever' whether James-the-predictable or you or anyone else like it or not. No one said anything about quality. ::)