The story is told that the CD was designed to have the capacity to hold Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Here’s something light years beyond: “all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas plus scores compressed into a single CD-ROM selling for $29.98, newly released by Newport Classic. Watch your DVD player or computer swallow it up, and you’re good for 10 hours of music. Buying the recordings on compact disc (on which they’re also available) and the scores as hard copies would cost around $150.”