Charity Shop Trawl

[silvestrione]

Modest Mussorgskij Bilder einer Ausstellung, Robert Schumann Bunte Blatter, played by Svjatoslav Richter. Dino Classics, Fonit Cetra. Recorded 10 Feb 1969, Naples. £2.49

The 'Pictures' are stunning! Gosh, what a relationship he had with this piece. The sound much better than on the famous Sofia performance from the 50s. I did not know this performance existed...a great find.

[Conchis]

I’m currently working in Moreton in the Marsh - the rich Costswold enclave famous for its Longborough Opera House. Naturally, I thought there’d be a few rick pickings in the High Street charity shops, courtesy of some recently deceased wealthy opera buffs: but not a bit of it. Just the usual load of old pop tat.

[cloughie]

I’m currently working in Moreton in the Marsh - the rich Costswold enclave famous for its Longborough Opera House. Naturally, I thought there’d be a few rick pickings in the High Street charity shops, courtesy of some recently deceased wealthy opera buffs: but not a bit of it. Just the usual load of old pop tat.

Camborne today - the LCP/Norrington Beethoven Symphonies set £1.99 - I know I had them already but at that price I could not leave them on the shelf could I? No, so I now have a spare set.

[Conchis]

Camborne today - the LCP/Norrington Beethoven Symphonies set £1.99 - I know I had them already but at that price I could not leave them on the shelf could I? No, so I now have a spare set.

Nope: it would have been a crime to leave them there!

Today in Nantwich:

Dinu Lipatti: Final (Besancon) Recital - 60p
Bohm: Die Zauberflote (DG Originals, arguably the second-best recording of this opera after Klemperer's)-£2.00
Grieg: Piano Concerto and Peer Gynt Suites (Anda/Kubelik and BPO/Karajan) - 20p

[EdgeleyRob]

Smetana - Ma Vlast - RPO Sargent
Beethoven - PC 1,King Stephen Ov - Dubravka Tomsic,RSO Ljubljana,Anton Nanut
Beethoven - PC 5 - Brendel,Vienna SO,Mehta + Moonlight Sonata - Klien
Haydn - Symphonies 18 to 21 - Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Kevin Mallon
Guitar favourites - Norbert Kraft (Naxos)
Famous opera arias - Decca Weekend Classics

Total £1.98

[visualnickmos]

Smetana - Ma Vlast - RPO Sargent
Beethoven - PC 1,King Stephen Ov - Dubravka Tomsic,RSO Ljubljana,Anton Nanut
Beethoven - PC 5 - Brendel,Vienna SO,Mehta + Moonlight Sonata - Klien
Haydn - Symphonies 18 to 21 - Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Kevin Mallon
Guitar favourites - Norbert Kraft (Naxos)
Famous opera arias - Decca Weekend Classics

Total £1.98

These two I have - both superb. Happy listening.... well 'trawled'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

These two I have - both superb.

So have I (the Smetana albeit on a cassette tape) - I wouldn't quite describe them as highly as you do, visnick, but both very good.

Happy listening.... well 'trawled'

[visualnickmos]

So have I (the Smetana albeit on a cassette tape) - I wouldn't quite describe them as highly as you do, visnick, but both very good.

A musician friend once told me that with the 'right' conductor, Ma Vlast is a real joy to play in. I didn't have the courage to ask him who were/are the 'wrong' conductors!

Of Sargent's recording (which he rated highly) he joked that if Smetana had been English, that's what his music would have sounded like!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Of Sargent's recording (which he rated highly) he joked that if Smetana had been English, that's what his music would have sounded like!

[cloughie]

I wonder what he would have said of the Norrington?

[Bryn]

From a BHF shop in Windsor yesterday, Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (LSO, Wyn Morris); Mertens and Branca: Music for the Greenaway film "The Belly of an Architect"; Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Christine Cairns, ECYO, Ashkenazy, 'live' 15 August 1991), this latter the real find. I can trace no Internet listing for it. Total cost, £6.97.

[Aha, using the release numbers I have now found one Internet reference, https://picclick.co.uk/Mahler-Sympho...338557676.html .]

[Conchis]

Today, I picked up JEG's complete Beethoven Symphony cycle in good-as-new condition for....£3.00

I'm no fan of JEG and, if anything, prefer my performances INauthentic but I figured I might as well.

The box is pleasingly laid out: 2 symphonies per disc in chronological order, with the 9th occupying its own disc, plus an interview disc featuring JEG holding forth in multiple languages. Glad that the customary overture fillers are omitted.

[cloughie]

Today, I picked up JEG's complete Beethoven Symphony cycle in good-as-new condition for....£3.00

I'm no fan of JEG and, if anything, prefer my performances INauthentic but I figured I might as well.

The box is pleasingly laid out: 2 symphonies per disc in chronological order, with the 9th occupying its own disc, plus an interview disc featuring JEG holding forth in multiple languages. Glad that the customary overture fillers are omitted.

I'll swap them with you for my spare Norrington set!

[Barbirollians]

Schumann Piano Concerto and Weber Konzertstuck Brendel/LSO/Abbado today - £2 a very battered case and well thumbed insert but disc in perfect condition. Suspect it might have been much loved by someone no longer with us . Then again they might just have put all their CDs onto a HD drive.

Listening to it I can hear why . Very fine playing all round , an exceptionally thoughtful account of the Schumann and a sparkling Konzertstuck that makes me wonder why we hear it so little in the concert hall.

[alycidon]

Someone after my own heart, clearly. The Schumann Concerto has been my all-time favourite ever since the age of sixteen, and as I hit seventy-five next week that must be fifty-nine years!

Nothing gives me more joy than listening to that concerto which i must have done a couple of thousand times.