Charity Shop Trawl

[french frank]

Oddly I found Алан Буш a bit harder. What was on the discs anyway?

Pastorale Symphony & Concerto for String Orchestra, orchestra conducted by Alan Rawsthorne; and Birthday Overture and Nottingham Symphony/Second Symphony, orchestra conducted by Alan Bush.

Sleeve notes, including a translation, by A. Tishchenko.

This is it:

http://wanderer-records.com/w18342

[cloughie]

Camborne today 5 for £1. One of my 5 a Reader’s Digest 3 CD - World’s most Romantic Symphonies - the set includes Dvorak Sym 9 RPO Kempe, Bizet Sym RPO Munch, Tchaikovsky Sym 5 NPO Horenstein, Schubert Sym 8 NatPO Gerhardt and Berlioz Sym Fant RPO Freccia.

[Conchis]

Camborne today 5 for £1. One of my 5 a Reader’s Digest 3 CD - World’s most Romantic Symphonies - the set includes Dvorak Sym 9 RPO Kempe, Bizet Sym RPO Munch, Tchaikovsky Sym 5 NPO Horenstein, Schubert Sym 8 NatPO Gerhardt and Berlioz Sym Fant RPO Freccia.

Good picks, but I bet they feature horrible artwork!

[cloughie]

Good picks, but I bet they feature horrible artwork!

Yes but you don’t play the artwork. It’s great to pick those great recordings by great conductors for next to nothing.

[cloughie]

Penzance today - a gem for 50p - Barbirolli and the Halle - Viennese Night at the Proms 1969 - BBC/IMG CD.

[LMcD]

Penzance today - a gem for 50p - Barbirolli and the Halle - Viennese Night at the Proms 1969 - BBC/IMG CD.

Are you on a Grand Tour of all the charity shops in Cornwall by any chance? Everybody should have a hobby, they say, and this is clearly more rewarding than most

[cloughie]

Are you on a Grand Tour of all the charity shops in Cornwall by any chance? Everybody should have a hobby, they say, and this is clearly more rewarding than most

It appears I’m drawn to them like a magnet - with the demise of proper record shops they’re the only shops worth visiting nowadays - I also picked up a couple of jazz piano books for £1 apiece!

[LMcD]

It appears I’m drawn to them like a magnet - with the demise of proper record shops they’re the only shops worth visiting nowadays - I also picked up a couple of jazz piano books for £1 apiece!

I regularly and ruthlessly work my bargain-hunting way through our town centre, which at the last count had 9 charity shops, with a 10th due to open shortly. (There's also one a mile or so out of town). As it happens, I help out twice a week at one of these shops, which is very helpful when one of our loyal supporters brings in a load of CDs, DVDs or books if I happen to be at the time!

[Dave2002]

Penzance today - a gem for 50p - Barbirolli and the Halle - Viennese Night at the Proms 1969 - BBC/IMG CD.

I might have been at that Prom, but where is the Blue Danube on the CD? Perhaps only a selection, or did Barbirolli do more than one such Prom?

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Viennese-Evening-at-Proms/dp/B00004U653/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Barbirolli%E2%80%99s+Strauss+prom&qid=1553253361&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

[cloughie]

I might have been at that Prom, but where is the Blue Danube on the CD? Perhaps only a selection, or did Barbirolli do more than one such Prom?

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Viennese-...r=8-1-fkmrnull

Well something had to be left off, the CD has over 76 mins! Anyway I have his studio recording!

[Bryn]

Well something had to be left off, the CD has over 76 mins!

Never mind. There's always this:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I might have been at that Prom, but where is the Blue Danube on the CD? Perhaps only a selection, or did Barbirolli do more than one such Prom?

Yes - the Proms Archive records such evenings, from 1959, and then annually from 1965 - 69 (the Blue Danube seems only to have featured once, in 1967 - although I can't find any reference to the "Gold & Silver" Waltz in the Archive, so it's not necessarily complete (I suspect that encores weren't put on record, and the Archive gives details of the advertised programme). It looks as if this is a recording of JB's last "Viennese Night", in which case, the major item omitted is the Mozart Violin Concerto from that evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/search/performers/6af449ad-010c-4dc4-afcb-9866cfe619df/2

[cloughie]

Never mind. There's always this:

I’ve got that recording too! A big fan of Spike’s irreverence and fun!

[LMcD]

Yesterday I purchased for 50p (or was it £1?) what turned out, IMHO, to be a fine recording of Beethoven's 9th with the RLPO under Mackerras. This was the original CfP issue. Certainly brisk at 61.00 but excellent playing and recording quality.

[pastoralguy]

Are you on a Grand Tour of all the charity shops in Cornwall by any chance? Everybody should have a hobby, they say, and this is clearly more rewarding than most