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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25234

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Is this also the same thing as "misspeaking"?
    You've seen and heard too many politicians on the telly recently, is my guess......
    Last edited by teamsaint; 05-05-17, 11:46.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • choralmike
      Full Member
      • May 2017
      • 29

      Can anyone recommend any charity shops which have a particularly good selection of sheet music?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by choralmike View Post
        Can anyone recommend any charity shops which have a particularly good selection of sheet music?
        Welcome to the Forum, choralmike.

        As Charity shops depend upon donations, their stock is inevitably variable; I would imagine that Oxfam bookshops are the most likely to have a selection of sheet music, but how good this selection might be will change from day-to-day and store-to-store. Pot luck, I fear - but that's part of the allure: a couple of years ago, I managed to get a single bound hardbacked Eulenberg copy of the Haydn Quartets volume 3 (Opp 55 - 103) - £2.49! Never been as lucky since.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22215

          Originally posted by choralmike View Post
          Can anyone recommend any charity shops which have a particularly good selection of sheet music?
          Very hit and miss. As a charity shopper of many years standing, my main target has been CDs and I have now and then got a good pocketful, but on occasions I have scored with sheet music, some of which is piano music, will never have the time, let alone the skills to play - but why let a good price get in the way.

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          • LeMartinPecheur
            Full Member
            • Apr 2007
            • 4717

            A real surprise in a Cornwall Oxfam today. A 10" DGG mono LP of Stockhausen's Studien I & II and Gesang der Junglinge (LP 16133), presumably issued very soon after their early-50s premieres(?). Doubled my Stockhausen collection at a stroke!

            An LMP damn-fuel question: is this recording (or possibly any later one engineered by KS) the only permitted acoustic form of these works? Or is there a score from which others can make their own version?

            One thing I like about ancient LPs of electronic works: if there's distortion you can always believe it's what the composer put onto the tapes rather than a worn, mis-tracking groove
            I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              There is a score of Studie II, LMP - it featured on the cover of the "World University Library" editions of HH Stuckenschmidt's Twentieth Century Music:


              The score can be bought from Stockhausen Verlag, and anyone with the appropriate equipment can make their own (HIPP!) realisation of it. On youTube, somebody has even gone to the trouble of synchronising the appearance of the score with the sound on that LP recording you have -it's utterly enchanting:



              Otherwise, whilst Musicians are perfectly free to make their own re-interpretations of the original, all broadcasts and recordings of the three pieces that I've heard or know of have been (remasterings) of the original tapes. (The originals, I think I remember hearing, are now too fragile to be used for anything other than restoration remasterings.)
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • LeMartinPecheur
                Full Member
                • Apr 2007
                • 4717

                Thanks fhg. Presumably Gesang der Junglinge is permanently tied to the original voice-tapes at least?
                I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                  Thanks fhg. Presumably Gesang der Junglinge is permanently tied to the original voice-tapes at least?
                  I'd never thought of that - but, yes; it must be. (The physical effort and the sheer amount of time it took to put those early tape compositions together would not be something that anyone would probably seek to repeat today - and computer technology makes what took Stockhausen weeks of work a matter of a few seconds' clicking!)
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Conchis
                    Banned
                    • Jun 2014
                    • 2396

                    In Kenilworth today:

                    Le Roi David - Honegger OSR/Ansermet

                    St Cecilia Mass - Gounod. Markevitch

                    Gliiere/Ginastera. Harp Concertos LSO/Hickok

                    All for 99p each

                    Then popped over to Leamington Spa, where the last remaining record shop had the Giulini in Vienna box( new and in shrink wrap) for fifteen quid (£1.00 per disc).

                    So, not a bad day, all in all.

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                    • pastoralguy
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7818

                      Nice little haul this morning in sunny Edinburgh.

                      Rudolph Kempe. Vienna Philharmonic 'On Holiday'. (Testament. £1.50)

                      Mahler Symphony no. 2. Sinopoli. (DG. 99p)

                      Liszt. Piano concertos. Barry Douglas. (RCA Red Seal. 99p)

                      Mendelssohn. Symphony 3. 'Fingal's Cave' and excerpts from Midsummer Night's Dream. (Decca. 99p)

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                      • Pulcinella
                        Host
                        • Feb 2014
                        • 11129

                        Good to see you posting a smile on this thread, PG, after reading your comment on the 'internet' thread.
                        Hope you get more pleasure from these purchases than you do from the news and newspapers.

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                        • pastoralguy
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7818

                          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                          Good to see you posting a smile on this thread, PG, after reading your comment on the 'internet' thread.
                          Hope you get more pleasure from these purchases than you do from the news and newspapers.

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                          • HighlandDougie
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3108

                            PG

                            Prompted by Pulcinella's post, I was really sorry to read that you are feeling a bit less than chipper at the moment. I can think of no remedy, other than the solace that music can bring (or another great find in an Edinburgh charity shop). Maybe I should get the duplicates/chuck-outs box of CDs, take it in the car to Edinburgh and distribute it among your known haunts - or maybe I should just give you the box(es - if the truth be known).

                            Hope that you feel better soon

                            HD

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                            • pastoralguy
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7818

                              Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                              PG

                              Prompted by Pulcinella's post, I was really sorry to read that you are feeling a bit less than chipper at the moment. I can think of no remedy, other than the solace that music can bring (or another great find in an Edinburgh charity shop). Maybe I should get the duplicates/chuck-outs box of CDs, take it in the car to Edinburgh and distribute it among your known haunts - or maybe I should just give you the box(es - if the truth be known).

                              Hope that you feel better soon

                              HD
                              Many thanks for your good wishes, Dougie. It's very kind of you.

                              I'm sure there would be many charity shops who would be grateful for your excess discs. We've been helping a friend, whose mother died recently, clear her house out after 40 years of living there. Oddly, charity shops don't accept cutlery since knives and forces are classed as 'dangerous weapons'! So, potentially, we have piles of good, well made cutlery that could end up in a bin.

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                              • Conchis
                                Banned
                                • Jun 2014
                                • 2396

                                Today, in Wetherby/Boston Spa:

                                Tchakovsky 1/Chopin 2 Piano Concertos - Ashkenazy/LSO/Maazel/Zinman
                                Elgar: Wand Of Youth Suites - LPO/Boult
                                Beethoeven - Mass in C/Missa Solemnis - RSO/Berlin/Chailly - CSO/Solti
                                Shostakovich/Franck - Piano Quintets - Hollywood Quarter/Allerstein

                                Total cost to self: £3.97

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