Charity Shop Trawl

[Stanfordian]

Today, in Nottingham:

York Bowen - Complete Music for Piano & Viola - 49p
Beethoven - Grosse Fugue and PC 5 - Australian Chamber Orchestra/Kovacevich (Penguin Guide Rosette recording) - 49p


:)

I rather like that Bowen CD. Happy listening!

[Conchis]

Well, today was a good day for Beethoven Piano Concertos, if for nothing else.

In Alfreton Oxfam, I picked up:

Leif Ove Andsnes - 'The Beethoven Adventure' (aka, PC 1-5 + Choral Fantasy)
Miskuko Uchida/Kurt Sanderling - Beethoven PC 1-5 + Variations

£2.99 each - a case of hair of the dog that bit me after I was landed with an unexpected car maintenance bill of £108.61!

[cloughie]

Well, today was a good day for Beethoven Piano Concertos, if for nothing else.

In Alfreton Oxfam, I picked up:

Leif Ove Andsnes - 'The Beethoven Adventure' (aka, PC 1-5 + Choral Fantasy)
Miskuko Uchida/Kurt Sanderling - Beethoven PC 1-5 + Variations

£2.99 each - a case of hair of the dog that bit me after I was landed with an unexpected car maintenance bill of £108.61!

Good exchange for a sick squid!

[ChrisBennell]

On Saturday, in Henley-on-Thames Oxfam, I picked up:

Handel Italian Cantatas - with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Magdalena Kozena on Archiv - was not familiar with any of those previously.

Bax Symphony No 4 - the Naxos Royal Scottish National Orch one - to go with the under-represented Bax repertoire in my collection.

I find these days that a substantial number of my acquisitions are coming from Charity Shops!

[Conchis]

I rather like that Bowen CD. Happy listening!

I enjoyed it a lot. I'd never heard any of Bowen's music before, and had only ever heard him mentioned on this forum.

[Jonathan]

Today in York (the branch on Micklegate) - Rachmaninov - Symphonies 1 - 3 with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting (Decca double) and Olga Scheps - Schubert which includes assorted small works and appears to be an import as all the text is in German!

[gradus]

[QUOTE=nersner;673448]

Every charity shop seems to be well-supplied with Bryn Terfels's wrteched crossover discs.
Many's the time I've passed over Bryn Terfel but I've just thought are any of them actually worth a 50p punt?
Do any have any hidden gems? Some perennials worth looking for imho are the Orbis Musicals collections.
I picked up A Little Night Music, Orpheus in the Underworld and Candide from them.
I am a habitual dweller in charity shops and over the years some of the gems have been:
Aida Solti
Marriage of Figaro Giulini
The Damnation of Faust Colin Davis
Songs from Liquid Days Glass
Koyaanisqatsi Glass
and surprisingly good Folk cd's from
Brian Peters and Gordon Tyrrall
John Dipper Band
Martin Stimson
Everyone 50p, you don't get much ambitious pricing in Hull outside Oxfam.

Bryn Terfel's 'crossover' discs include some awful things making one wonder why on earth he agreed to do it eg Get me to the Church on time, as well as songs which are as fine as anything he has recorded eg Come Home from Allegro, which alone is worth the full original cost of the CD imv. So take a punt you may well find buried treasure.

[HighlandDougie]

Today in York (the branch on Micklegate) - Rachmaninov - Symphonies 1 - 3 with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting (Decca double) and Olga Scheps - Schubert which includes assorted small works and appears to be an import as all the text is in German!

You lucky man! The Ashkenazy/Concertgebouw Rachmaninov symphonies are one of the glories of the catalogue, performance- and recording-wise.

[cloughie]

[QUOTE=gradus;674707]

Bryn Terfel's 'crossover' discs include some awful things making one wonder why on earth he agreed to do it eg Get me to the Church on time, as well as songs which are as fine as anything he has recorded eg Come Home from Allegro, which alone is worth the full original cost of the CD imv. So take a punt you may well find buried treasure.

...and the if you really don't like them, donate back to the charity shop of your chosen good cause!

[cloughie]

You lucky man! The Ashkenazy/Concertgebouw Rachmaninov symphonies are one of the glories of the catalogue, performance- and recording-wise.

You just need to top up with his equally good Symphonic Dances!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...and the if you really don't like them, donate back to the charity shop of your chosen good cause ...

... like everyone else does.

[cloughie]

... like everyone else does.

Precisely, ferney.

[Jonathan]

You just need to top up with his equally good Symphonic Dances!

Thanks! I'll keep my eyes peeled - they also had his concerto recordings but I left those as I have several versions of them already. I should have said, the discs were £2.99 each.

[Dave2002]

Mozart: Mitridate re di Ponto, Rousset 3 CDs £2 local shop
plus some (4) LPs for 99p each in case I need something to test out a turntable, arm, cartridge etc.

Mahler: Symphony 5 - Karajan, DG Klassikon - £1.99. An Oxfam shop some way away, which used to have really good stuff cheap.

The following - to the end - were 2 for £1 in another local shop.
Sibelius: Symphonies 5 and 7 Karajan
Smetana: Vltva etc. Naxos

Beethoven: Piano Concertos (1,2), Abbado Pollini
plus a CD of Evita soundtrack for AN Other - who may like that sort of thing.

I'm not sure whether I like Karajan's Mahler 5 at all. Parts of it are really amazingly good, but I've not listened to enough of it yet to feel that it would supplant other versions I have or like (Bernstein, Barbirolli, Walter and quite a number of others). I have versions by Karajan already in other box sets- e.g. the EMI set from a few years back.

[Mal]

I'm not sure whether I like Karajan's Mahler 5 at all. Parts of it are really amazingly good, but I've not listened to enough of it yet to feel that it would supplant other versions...

A charity shop favourite! The unwary, like me, see it and think "Karajan should be interesting, it's very cheap, and it's for charity", cough up the money, and then take it back the next day: repeat ad infinitum. Like you, I like Bernstein, though only heard it on Spotify. Just ordered it on ebay for £3.98 new (!). But people should buy Karajan if they see it in a charity shop, we should all suffer for our art now and again.