Charity Shop Trawl

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Brahms, Complete Solo Piano Music/Katchen - 6CDs £5.99

in unplayed condition.

I'm not in the slightest bit jealous! But indeed!

Hours and hours of superb Music and Music-making.

[EdgeleyRob]

Today, in Harrogate:

Yo Yo Ma, Great Cello Concertos (2CD) £1.65

Brahms, Complete Solo Piano Music/Katchen - 6CDs £5.99

Delibes - Complete Ballets - 4CDs £4.99

The latter two are in unplayed condition.

One of my all time favourite box sets of any kind of music,£5.99 unplayed,it's almost criminal.

[pastoralguy]

One of my all time favourite box sets of any kind of music,£5.99 unplayed,it's almost criminal.

I was out with my mother today and she'd forgotten her gloves so we popped into BHF. We got her a nice new pair of red ones for £1.99 and I bought...

Bach. 5 cd box set of the concertos by the English Concert with Pinnock on DG for £2.99

Mozart. 7 cd set of the wind concerti, serenades and divertimento played by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for £3.99

Puccini. La Boehme, Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot in. 9 cd set featuring Pavarotti for £4.99

All sealed in their original plastic wrappings!



All

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Blimey - that is brilliant value, pguy: <utterlyenviousemoticon>

[Flay]

Not a CD, but today in Oxfam in York I picked up Intimate Letters, translations of letters between Leoš Janáčec and Kamila Stösslová by John Tyrrell for £5.99

It should make interesting reading.

[Oliver]

BHF? where and what is that?
Does anyone know of any shops in London worth visiting to buy bargains like these?

[Alison]

British Heart Foundation

[Bryn]

British Heart Foundation

Bloody Hell Fire, I'd never have guessed.

[cloughie]

Penzance good this morning - star purchase 99p for the BMG Melodiya twofer of Rozhdestvensky's Swan Lake, £2 for R Strauss Lieder - Gruberova/Haider, 75p for Previn's Britten Spring Sym/Sea Ints plus a couple of Naxos at 75p each.

[pastoralguy]

Penzance good this morning - star purchase 99p for the BMG Melodiya twofer of Rozhdestvensky's Swan Lake, £2 for R Strauss Lieder - Gruberova/Haider, 75p for Previn's Britten Spring Sym/Sea Ints plus a couple of Naxos at 75p each.

[visualnickmos]

Bloody Hell Fire, I'd never have guessed.

Do the Sally Army have charity shops?

[pastoralguy]

Do the Sally Army have charity shops?

Yes! There are a couple in Edinburgh and one in Penicuik, a small town outside the city. Hardly ever get anything from them but you never know...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- star purchase 99p for the BMG Melodiya twofer of Rozhdestvensky's Swan Lake, £2 for R Strauss Lieder - Gruberova/Haider, 75p for Previn's Britten Spring Sym/Sea Ints plus a couple of Naxos at 75p each.

Excellent value, cloughie - but are you sure that <ahem>

Penzance good this morning

they weren't pirates?

[cloughie]

Excellent value, cloughie - but are you sure that <ahem>

they weren't pirates?

The originals - always the greatest....
.... but nothing succeed like their parrots!

[Don Petter]

A not unfamiliar story at Oxfam in Cirencester yesterday.

The good news:

Four long shelves of classical CDs
Alphabetical by composer, no riffling through browsers needed
Content was good to interesting

The bad:

Only a giraffe could comfortably look at the top shelf
Prices seem to range from £6.99 to £9.99

The result:

No haul for me.
Against my instinct, I did buy one item 'to say I'd been' (to Cirencester, not Oxfam). Piano works by Lennox and Michael Berkeley, Margaret Fingerhut on Chandos, for £6.99 which I now see I could have bought new for £3.00 on Amazon.

Had prices been the charity shop norm of £1.99, I would have probably hauled seven or eight items of possible interest without thinking.