Charity Shop Trawl

[Bryn]

Just a mention for anyone within easy reach of Bracknell. The mobility 'scooter'/charity shop next to W H Smith has recently had a large number of BBC Music Magazine cover discs donated. These are up for sale at 25p each and include some going back to the earliest issues.. They also have a wide selection of DVDs (I already grabbed the very few operas among them) for 50p each.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Not all Oxfam shops have over-the-top prices. My local shop has single discs at 2 or 3 pounds, with an extra pound for each additional disc in box sets. OK, so that's more than some of the bargains mentioned on this thread, and more than you might sometimes pay online, but the amount doesn't seem unreasonable to me given how much these things cost new, and I rarely see a scratched disc or broken case.

Is that a specialist book/record (+all that product they push - cards, chocolate etc) Oxfam bookshop. My local ones price on the Amazon without the postage principle. I rarely buy anything I am not really looking to acquire - and if I'm looking to acquire a particular recording, I don't wait to come across it in my occasional visits to their bookshop.
I understand how the market economy works, they may as well charge what the market will bear.

They do quite well on it - donated goods, added to by the "are you a taxpayer" gift aid enhancement on their sale price, and use volunteer labour, with the exception of the manager (and upper level marketing and admin, no doubt) to do it. Do they pay the full whack business rates I wonder?

[LeMartinPecheur]

My local Launceston Oxfam seems to get the occasional crate-load of CDs and DVDs unsold in other branches which they sell off very cheaply (50p ea). Sometimes there's some good obscure classical stuff which I benefit from, presumably because much of Cornwall is pretty low in the socio-economic groupings. So not very much good stuff but a corresponding lack of buyers when it does come in

(Except of course for cloughie)

[jpegasus]

Is that a specialist book/record (+all that product they push - cards, chocolate etc) Oxfam bookshop. My local ones price on the Amazon without the postage principle. I rarely buy anything I am not really looking to acquire - and if I'm looking to acquire a particular recording, I don't wait to come across it in my occasional visits to their bookshop.

Yes it's a specialist books/music shop. Cards but no chocolate. Nothing is pushed - just available for sale if you want it.

Like you I don't wait if there's something specific I'm after, but I do sometimes find things I'd forgotten about or never knew existed.

[Bryn]

50 individual CDs today, mostly BBCMM coverdiscs. £10 for the lot. Many duplicates, including Mahler 6 (Mackerras) and 10 (Wigglesworth), which will go to the culturally needy. Also included was the very early cover disc of the movements competed by the composer of Bruckner's 9th (Klee). This latter in the hope that it does not have the drop-out that was found in both previous copies I already have.

[visualnickmos]

50 individual CDs today, mostly BBCMM coverdiscs. £10 for the lot. Many duplicates, including Mahler 6 (Mackerras) and 10 (Wigglesworth), which will go to the culturally needy. Also included was the very early cover disc of the movements competed by the composer of Bruckner's 9th (Klee). This latter in the hope that it does not have the drop-out that was found in both previous copies I already have.

A good haul! Well found.
I'd be interested to know about the 'drop out' problem: I have that CD, and yes - the 'drop out' is there, so I would hazard a guess that it's on all the 'pressings'

[Bryn]

A good haul! Well found.
I'd be interested to know about the 'drop out' problem: I have that CD, and yes - the 'drop out' is there, so I would hazard a guess that it's on all the 'pressings'

Yes, at 20p I thought it worth a punt. I have been listing to Vogel's 1977 Broadcasting House Beethoven Op. 106 this evening. My original copy suffered 'bronzing'. This one appears to have escaped it, somehow. I will back it up for security. I have such a backlog of listening, plus the need to prepare a soundscape for a forthcoming performance, that I'm not sure how soon I will have the time to check out the Bruckner 9. I will, however, try and remember to report back when I do.

[visualnickmos]

Yes, at 20p I thought it worth a punt. I have been listing to Vogel's 1977 Broadcasting House Beethoven Op. 106 this evening. My original copy suffered 'bronzing'. This one appears to have escaped it, somehow. I will back it up for security. I have such a backlog of listening, plus the need to prepare a soundscape for a forthcoming performance, that I'm not sure how soon I will have the time to check out the Bruckner 9. I will, however, try and remember to report back when I do.

Good man. Happy 'backlog listening!' Some of thos BBC MM cover CDs are pretty damn good. A particular one I played recently, is Sinaisky's Shostakovich 4th symphony, with, IIRC the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.....

[Bryn]

Good man. Happy 'backlog listening!' Some of thos BBC MM cover CDs are pretty damn good. A particular one I played recently, is Sinaisky's Shostakovich 4th symphony, with, IIRC the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.....

Yes, that's one I decided not to double up on, leaving it for someone else to enjoy. One I did duplicate was Elder's Prokofiev Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, coupled with Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony.

[Barbirollians]

£3 - the Ashkenazy/Solti set of Beethoven Piano Concertos . I think it was Age Concern .

[Pulcinella]

50 individual CDs today, mostly BBCMM coverdiscs. £10 for the lot. Many duplicates, including Mahler 6 (Mackerras) and 10 (Wigglesworth), which will go to the culturally needy. Also included was the very early cover disc of the movements competed by the composer of Bruckner's 9th (Klee). This latter in the hope that it does not have the drop-out that was found in both previous copies I already have.

A good haul! Well found.
I'd be interested to know about the 'drop out' problem: I have that CD, and yes - the 'drop out' is there, so I would hazard a guess that it's on all the 'pressings'

Can you give a timing, and I'll check my copy?

[Cockney Sparrow]

Yes, that's one I decided not to double up on, leaving it for someone else to enjoy. One I did duplicate was Elder's Prokofiev Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, coupled with Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony.

I sang in the chorus of the Cantata last year (Ashkenazy (well, the leader of the PO as well - a collaboration in the performances)). It's a mad piece. We passed a few recordings around. I felt the Elder held up well.

[visualnickmos]

Can you give a timing, and I'll check my copy?

The stated timings are:

1 25:23
2 11:12
3 30:16

I haven't the tme right now to check how these correlate wiith the playing timings

[Pulcinella]

The stated timings are:

1 25:23
2 11:12
3 30:16

I haven't the tme right now to check how these correlate wiith the playing timings

Thanks; I'll try to listen later today.
Has there been acknowledgement of the problem?

PS: These are the track timings (just looked in my iTunes). I was wondering where the drop out was. At first reading I thought these were the times at which a drop out occurred!

[visualnickmos]

Thanks; I'll try to listen later today.
Where were they 'stated'?
Has there been acknowledgement of the problem?

Printed on the reverse side of the paper 'sleeve'
There is no mention of the drop-out problem.