WHERE did you buy your first classical record/s?

[arancie33]

Just listening to Mahler 4 on R3 now. Was my first Mahler record, LPO under Jascha Horenstein, label(is that the term?) Classics for Pleasure and WD&HO Wills Master Series. Bought it in Bracknell c1975.

[Bryn]

Just listening to Mahler 4 on R3 now. Was my first Mahler record, LPO under Jascha Horenstein, label(is that the term?) Classics for Pleasure and WD&HO Wills Master Series. Bought it in Bracknell c1975.

Where in Bracknell, the old WH Smith in the Broadway by any chance?

[Sir Velo]

Where in Bracknell, the old WH Smith in the Broadway by any chance?

I can see a new thread here: "Where did you buy your first classical records"? For the record, mine were purchased from the legendary "Woods" of Bognor Regis and the short lived Bastow's Classics in Chichester.

Sussex boy me.

[Nick Armstrong]

Your wish is my lobster, Sir V....


Mine were from the Boots in the Victoria Centre, Nottingham! (With Xmas or Birthday 'Boots tokens' ... )

[kuligin]

Kendal Milne and Co Manchester

Ravel Bolero Dukas Socerers Apprentice LPO Rignold Marble Arch Records

14/6

[Madame Suggia]

Boots in Salisbury

[MickyD]

I can see a new thread here: "Where did you buy your first classical records"? For the record, mine were purchased from the legendary "Woods" of Bognor Regis and the short lived Bastow's Classics in Chichester.

Sussex boy me.

Me too, Sir Velo...I loved the Woods in Bognor, it was always chock full of second hand CD bargains, when the discs were firstly very expensive in the mid 80s. A real Aladdin's cave, such a shame it had to close.

[vinteuil]

Milsom's in Bath. If you walked through the back of the shop a series of corridors led you to the admirably-named piano shop of Duck, Son, and Pinker....

First lps bought with own money - Bach multiple harpsichord ctos on nonesuch, Brandenburgs on saga, aged about 12...




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[Keraulophone]

The old Hurleys store on Balham High Road, SW12. Aged 10. Rossini Overtures/van Beinum Decca Ace of Clubs... as I liked the Thieving Magpie since my mother used to play the NBC/Toscannini on a 78.

[Tony Halstead]

The Avgarde Gallery, Brazennose Street, Manchester, in about 1959, Holst 'The Planets' on Ace of Clubs, LSO (Sargent?).

[arancie33]

Where in Bracknell, the old WH Smith in the Broadway by any chance?

Probably! Not helpful, I know, but I think it was in what was then, maybe, and certainly was in the 1980s, Charles Square.

If that reads confusedly, it may be because I seem to have unwittingly - thanks Caliban - started THIS thread with my still extant contribution to the Mahler record thread next door. Are you all keeping up?

Anyway, on THIS topic, my first classical record was a 45, long lost or pinched, which had on it parts of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, Massenet's meditation from Thais and maybe a bit more. I bought it in Taphouse or Russell Acott in Oxford in 1957. I think one of those has been swallowed by Debenham's (Elliston and Cavell, as was) and the other could be anything. Now off to Google street view to look and try not to cry!

[umslopogaas]

My very first LP was the two record Decca set of Mahler 2, conducted by Solti: very expensive, but a fantastic recording. It had pride of place in the window of the music shop in Cranleigh High Street, in Surrey. Subsequently I bought a lot of mono LPs at bargain prices from Smiths on Waterloo Station, on my way to and from university at Cambridge. I wasnt concerned at the lack of stereo, because at the time I only had one speaker. Later when I managed to acquire a second one, I replaced most of them with the stereo versions.

[pastoralguy]

Rae Macintosh in South Queensferry Street, just off the West End in Edinburgh.

Alas, it's no more now although the instrument/sheet music section moved into Shandwick place about a year ago.

[Richard Tarleton]

I'm struggling to remember the name of the Oxford music shop in Magdalen st - not Russell Acott in High St which closed recently after 200 years - it's where I bought my first few LPs - J Bream, and a complete "Marta"

[Keraulophone]

Taphouse’s music shop, 3 Magdalen Street until 1982.