Meloclassic's website does not provide timings, and its discs probably don't turn up on streaming services, so I can't look there. Even if there is no exposition repeat in the Beethoven, this pianist may dispatch the Reger concerto in, say, 38 minutes. Wouldn't that be a record - and from a pianist who played it with the composer! Or are there cuts (sanctioned in that case by Reger)? Or is it actually a mistake, and the CD plays for 85 minutes?
If mr Woolf has nothing to say about this after hearing the CD, I would respect that and make my own guesses - if I had the timings! For instance that most other pianists are slower in the Reger than he wanted. With your reluctance to provide timngs, even when they are of interest like here, I hope he can add a paragraph to his review instead. Likewise, when there are no timings reviewers of opera excerpts should tell us more about where these start and stop.
It would be easier to reintroduce them (selectively). But it is always hard to change decisions, so I hope your team instead will decide to write longer where duration is of interest.
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