Charity Shop Trawl

[Conchis]

British Heart Foundation shop at the top of Lothian Road?!

As it happens: yes! - for the first two.:) Cancer Research and Shelter further up also helped.

I had a great time in Edinburgh - lots of amazing stuff going on at the Usher Hall, even the booking fees didn't deter me from partaking - but, like I say, was otherwise engaged during the day, so I expect most of the spoils, quite rightly, went to you. :)

[pastoralguy]

As it happens: yes! - for the first two.:) Cancer Research and Shelter further up also helped.

I had a great time in Edinburgh - lots of amazing stuff going on at the Usher Hall, even the booking fees didn't deter me from partaking - but, like I say, was otherwise engaged during the day, so I expect most of the spoils, quite rightly, went to you. :)

Well done. I'm glad you got something. What I love about charity shops is that it's completely serendipitous. I go into the Cancer Research shop quite often and never get anything but they had a lot of Elgar discs recently so I took the ones I didn't already have.

Glad you had a good time in Edinburgh. We didn't go to a lot this year but we enjoyed what we saw.

[subcontrabass]

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Elgar: Gerontius and Walton: Belshazzar's Feast - RLPO/Sargent

That is, from information elsewhere, the 1955 recording of Gerontius by Sargent. A superb rendering which I listened to many times when studying the work as one of our six set works for A level Music many years ago.

[Conchis]

That is, from information elsewhere, the 1955 recording of Gerontius by Sargent. A superb rendering which I listened to many times when studying the work as one of our six set works for A level Music many years ago.

I listened to it yesterday and I agree. A great example of perfectly balanced mono recording for both works!

[Conchis]

Today was Alwyn day:

Orchestral Music - RLPO/Lloyd Jones
Concerti Grossi 2 & 3 - ditto
Symphonies 1 & 3 - ditto
Symphony 5/Sinfonietta/Piano Concerto 2 - LSO/Hickox
Symphony 4/Elizabethan Dances/Festival March - LSO/Hickox


Total cost: £4.97

[EdgeleyRob]

Today was Alwyn day:

Orchestral Music - RLPO/Lloyd Jones
Concerti Grossi 2 & 3 - ditto
Symphonies 1 & 3 - ditto
Symphony 5/Sinfonietta/Piano Concerto 2 - LSO/Hickox
Symphony 4/Elizabethan Dances/Festival March - LSO/Hickox


Total cost: £4.97

WOW ! Enjoy.

[teamsaint]

Nice haul Conchis had there.
Not done the charity shops much recently, but picked up the Ingrid Haebler Schubert Sonatas box set in downtown Ludlow today for £6.99, which is a bargain for this set, I think.

[Pulcinella]

Nice haul Conchis had there.
Not done the charity shops much recently, but picked up the Ingrid Haebler Schubert Sonatas box set in downtown Ludlow today for £6.99, which is a bargain for this set, I think.

Now Bridgnorth I can appreciate uptown and downtown, but Ludlow?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Now Bridgnorth I can appreciate uptown and downtown, but Ludlow?

Tautology, I'd've thought - "Uptown Ludlow" would be "Ludhigh"?

[teamsaint]

Now Bridgnorth I can appreciate uptown and downtown, but Ludlow?

Looking back, have you ever felt that you may somehow have missed the main point of a post*, in your reply?
I know I have.

Bridgnorth? Seemed ok the time I went there. We must have been in the uptown bit.

edit:
* with the greatest repect, obviously.

[silvestrione]

An Argo LP of Rawsthorne's 3rd Symphony and, of more interest to me, Roberto Gerhard's Concerto for Orchestra, with BBC SO and Norman Del Mar.

Anyone know this work by Gerhard? Caught my imagination from the very opening. One of those works that re-invents the orchestra, and explores new kinds of musical thought, contrasting 'eventfulness' with stasis, and with 'action in very slow motion'. A virtuoso piece in a virtuoso performance!

[umslopogaas]

Silvestrione, I guess that is Argo ZRG 553? I have it, and my copy has a sticker on the front saying Audio Award. No indication of whose award it was, but that suggests it should be spectacular sound. The sleeve notes say "The virtuosity of the writing is staggering." I cant say I know it though, it must be several years since I played it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anyone know this work by Gerhard? Caught my imagination from the very opening. One of those works that re-invents the orchestra, and explores new kinds of musical thought, contrasting 'eventfulness' with stasis, and with 'action in very slow motion'. A virtuoso piece in a virtuoso performance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ndg4EZenI

... gives a more recent recording.

[Pulcinella]

An Argo LP of Rawsthorne's 3rd Symphony and, of more interest to me, Roberto Gerhard's Concerto for Orchestra, with BBC SO and Norman Del Mar.

Anyone know this work by Gerhard? Caught my imagination from the very opening. One of those works that re-invents the orchestra, and explores new kinds of musical thought, contrasting 'eventfulness' with stasis, and with 'action in very slow motion'. A virtuoso piece in a virtuoso performance!

I haven't checked ferney's link, but the Concerto for orchestra also features in the Chandos set of releases of symphonies etc:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/25626/Roberto-Gerhard-Concerto-for-Orchestra

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I haven't checked ferney's link, but the Concerto for orchestra also features in the Chandos set of releases of symphonies etc:
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/2...-for-Orchestra

- that's the one on the youTube video.