Charity Shop Trawl

[cloughie]

Beggur! The Medea is missing disc 1! - still, this remastering has a lot better sound quality than my previous version: the deep fat fryers have been tamed, and if the sound is rather boxy as a result, there's still a great deal more detail coming through than I've heard before.

(And the Maid of Orleans set has an extra CD included, of excerpts from the opera from another company. Rings & Soundabouts!)

The beauty of the Charity Shop scene - the minuses and the bonuses!

[visualnickmos]

Beggur! The Medea is missing disc 1! - still, this remastering has a lot better sound quality than my previous version: the deep fat fryers have been tamed, and if the sound is rather boxy as a result, there's still a great deal more detail coming through than I've heard before.

(And the Maid of Orleans set has an extra CD included, of excerpts from the opera from another company. Rings & Soundabouts!)

Dictum; check goods before handing over cash!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Dictum; check goods before handing over cash!

Yeah - but 50p even for the one disc is pretty good; but I would have asked if they had the missing one hiding somewhere under the counter.

[cloughie]

Yeah - but 50p even for the one disc is pretty good; but I would have asked if they had the missing one hiding somewhere under the counter.

They never have!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[visualnickmos]

Yeah - but 50p even for the one disc is pretty good; but I would have asked if they had the missing one hiding somewhere under the counter.

What use is half an opera!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What use is half an opera!

Three-fifths (missing CD = Act One, 52 mins; CD2 = Acts Two & Three; 74mins).

What use is no opera at all?

[Jonathan]

Not exactly cheap but Oxfam in York - Rontgen - The Violin Concertos (£8.99) and from the Amnesty Book shop in York - Bach Goldberg Variations played by Angela Hewitt (£3) and signed by her!

[cloughie]

Scilly last week - among a number of 3 for 50p - Cannonball Adderley: Something Else, Oysterband: Trawler and Best of George Benson. Thursday in Penzance - sheet music - a book of Mozart Piano Music £2 - maybe I'll be able to tackle a fraction of the contents!

[Conchis]

This week, while on holiday in Suffolk:

Peter Grimes (appropriate!) - LSO/Hickok, with Langridge
Idomeneo - Dresden Staatskapelle/Bohm
Maascagni - Cavaleria Rusticana - Pavarotti, Varady, Capucilli NSO/Gavazenni
Copland - Double Decca of orchestral works
Bach - Mass in B Minor, EBS/JEG
Le Beouef sur le Toit et al - Capuchon/Daniel Harding

[pastoralguy]

A real mixed bag today!

I came across an ECM disc of Part's 'Te Deum' today. Having duly taken the disc out to ascertain it was the correct disc and the playing surface was in good condition, I later found that although the disc was an ECM disc and was by Pärt it was in fact a disc entitled 'Alina'! Ah well, no great loss as it was only a £. I then found a copy of Sibelius' Second Symphony with Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on DG. Alas, the shop was illuminated by a single 40 watt bulb, (or so it seemed!) and found the disc itself was bronzed. It played ok until the last 10 seconds when it started stuttering. Oh well, another 99p down the drain.

However, things got better. I found a Testament disc of Sir John Barbirolli conducting Mahler 6 with Die Berliner Philharmoniker. Fortunately, no problems with that disc unless one counts Sir John's moaning and groaning!

Finally, Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' on EMI played by Yvonne Loriod, piano, Christoph Poppen, violin, Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, 'Cello and Wolfgang Meyer, clarinet.

[visualnickmos]

A real mixed bag today!

.....I later found that although the disc was an ECM disc and was by Pärt it was in fact a disc entitled 'Alina'! .....I then found a copy of Sibelius' Second Symphony with Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on DG. .....and found the disc itself was bronzed. .....Oh well, another 99p down the drain.

However, things got better. I found a Testament disc of Sir John Barbirolli conducting Mahler 6 with Die Berliner Philharmoniker. Fortunately, no problems with that disc unless one counts Sir John's moaning and groaning!

Finally, Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' on EMI played by Yvonne Loriod, piano, Christoph Poppen, violin, Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, 'Cello and Wolfgang Meyer, clarinet.

Win some; lose some!
The star prize is surely Sir John 'doing' Mahler.... Good find - more than makes up for £1,99 'down the drain!'

[LeMartinPecheur]

A very tolerably fruitful tour of Truro today brought forth:

Glazunov Piano Conc's (Yablonska: Naxos)
Szymanowski Stabat Mater etc (Stryja: Naxos). Bought it for the etc's as I already have the Rattle Stabat Mater.
RVW Symph 6 (Boult: EMI GROC in good old mono, c/w Song of Thanksgiving and Lark Ascending from Jean Pougnet). All 40s/ 50s recordings.
Vivaldi Cello Conc's (Ofra Harnoy: RCA)
Nimbus 'The Grand Piano Era' (Bauer, Busoni, Friedman, Grainger, Hofmann, Lamond, Medtner, Paderewski off piano rolls)
Poulenc Organ Conc + Barber, Petit (Weir, ECO, Leppard - Linn)
Britten/ Pears standard stereo Les Illum's, Serenade, Nocturne (How have I lived so long without buying this before?? I've had the mono Pears Illum's and Serenade for a good while).

[cloughie]

A very tolerably fruitful tour of Truro today brought forth:

Glazunov Piano Conc's (Yablonska: Naxos)
Szymanowski Stabat Mater etc (Stryja: Naxos). Bought it for the etc's as I already have the Rattle Stabat Mater.
RVW Symph 6 (Boult: EMI GROC in good old mono, c/w Song of Thanksgiving and Lark Ascending from Jean Pougnet). All 40s/ 50s recordings.
Vivaldi Cello Conc's (Ofra Harnoy: RCA)
Nimbus 'The Grand Piano Era' (Bauer, Busoni, Friedman, Grainger, Hofmann, Lamond, Medtner, Paderewski off piano rolls)
Poulenc Organ Conc + Barber, Petit (Weir, ECO, Leppard - Linn)
Britten/ Pears standard stereo Les Illum's, Serenade, Nocturne (How have I lived so long without buying this before?? I've had the mono Pears Illum's and Serenade for a good while).

I was in Truro on limited time on Thursday - so didn't do the charity shops - but bought a Willie Nelson CD in HMV for £3.99! Last week on Choir trip to Tenby picked up the Naxos Wit Schumann 1/3 for 50p and a Kathleen Ferrier (Brahms/Chausson/English Songs), Marriner - Suppe Ovs and a SCO/Laredo Baroque favourites at 3 for £1.

[LMcD]

Scilly last week - among a number of 3 for 50p - Cannonball Adderley: Something Else, Oysterband: Trawler and Best of George Benson. Thursday in Penzance - sheet music - a book of Mozart Piano Music £2 - maybe I'll be able to tackle a fraction of the contents!

Frankly, these are Scilly prices....
Oxfam's CD and DVD prices tend to be higher, but they do display their stock in a more organized way than most other charities.