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The short answer: a little over 30 minutes, on average. But just for grins, I thought I'd look up the playing times of several different recordings.
Neville Marriner & Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields:
- mvt. 1 - 11:27
- mvt. 2 - 8:16
- mvt. 3 - 4:29
- mvt. 4 - 8:25
- total time - 32:37
Leonard Bernstein & Vienna Philharmonic:
- mvt. 1 - 12:03
- mvt. 2 - 9:11
- mvt. 3 - 5:15
- mvt. 4 - 11:38
- total time - 38:07
Herbert von Karajan & Berlin Philharmonic:
- mvt. 1 - 11:23
- mvt. 2 - 7:46
- mvt. 3 - 5:10
- mvt. 4 - 6:02
- total time - 30:21
George Szell & Cleveland Orchestra:
- mvt. 1 - 8:18
- mvt. 2 - 7:34
- mvt. 3 - 4:34
- mvt. 4 - 5:59
- total time - 26:25
Joel Levine & Chicago Symphony:
- mvt. 1 - 11:05
- mvt. 2 - 10:23
- mvt. 3 - 4:28
- mvt. 4 - 11:07
- total time - 37:03
The shortest playing time was Szell and Cleveland (26:25), and the longest was Bernstein and Vienna (38:07)--quite a difference! At least from this small sampling, it looks as though the determining factor is the tempo of the 4th movement. The 1st movement came in around 11 minutes with all except Szell (needs to switch to decaf!), the 2nd movement was more or less around 8 minutes except for Levine, and the 3rd movement was consistently 4-and-a-half to 5 minutes. But the finale times were 8:25, 11:38, 6:02, 5:59, and 11:07. That's a pretty major difference of interpretation!
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