Charity Shop Trawl

[LMcD]

5 CDs from the Naxos "American Classics" series, with music by William Schuman, George Templeton Strong, Morton Gould and Ned Rorem, plus a Delta Music CD of popular Ameican Classics. At 20p each, I succumbed. Also, another 20p went on the Naxos CD of Falla's La vida breve.

Is your Naxos Schuman the one featuring the fiendish violin concerto? I have quite a few of the 'American Classics' series featuring works by Samuel Barber and Walter Piston.

[Bryn]

Is your Naxos Schuman the one featuring the fiendish violin concerto? I have quite a few of the 'American Classics' series featuring works by Samuel Barber and Walter Piston.

No, its the one with the 4th and 9th Symphonies.

[Pulcinella]

No, its the one with the 4th and 9th Symphonies.

OK: so what's the Rorem?
I think the one with the three symphonies on is a winner, and I like PC2 too (especially the second movement).

[Bryn]

OK: so what's the Rorem?
I think the one with the three symphonies on is a winner, and I like PC2 too (especially the second movement).

A selection of his many songs.

[Pulcinella]

A selection of his many songs.

Ah! One of the Naxos releases I didn't take to, despite Rorem being the pianist.
I don't like Farley's voice, which is a shame!

Early in the morning is a lovely song, though; one that is hard to 'ruin'.

[LMcD]

A most entertaining CD of works by Prokofiev, featuring Peter And The Wolf (with John Gielgud), Cinderella Suite, Classical Symphony and Lieutenant Kijé. 50p from the British Heart Foundation.

[Barbirollians]

Weber Piano Concertos Demidenko/Mackerras - rather fun works.

[cloughie]

Redruth last week, Bonynge Verdi Il Trovatore, Atlanta/Shaw - Brahms German Requiem, Mutter DG Four Seasons - 3 for £1.

[edashtav]

Panocha Quartet
Martinů: String Quartets (Complete)
Published: May 2007 SUPRAPHON
Format: 3 CD
A classic complete collection of Bohuslav Martinů's string quartets recorded: 1979 to 1983. Martinů's quartets span his life, and, typically for Martinu, are highly differentiated. The Impressionistic "French" Quartet (by a garrulous Debussy out of early Roussel) and the Quartet #4 (Paris, 1937) were written in the period between the Wars. Martinů's own compositional identity had started to form in the Quartet # 2 (1925). The Quartet #5 is a passionate, headstrong work, born of inner tensions. After the Quartet # 6 (1946),which one could caricature as analogous to Dvorak's "American" Quartet, Martinů brought his quartet cycle to a climax with his seventh piece, the Concerto da camera, a work of maturity and, maybe, acceptance of fate.

All that for £1 at Buckingham's Hospice Shop.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very impressive find, ed.

[Pulcinella]

Panocha Quartet
Martinů: String Quartets (Complete)
Published: May 2007 SUPRAPHON
Format: 3 CD
A classic complete collection of Bohuslav Martinů's string quartets recorded: 1979 to 1983. Martinů's quartets span his life, and, typically for Martinu, are highly differentiated. The Impressionistic "French" Quartet (by a garrulous Debussy out of early Roussel) and the Quartet #4 (Paris, 1937) were written in the period between the Wars. Martinů's own compositional identity had started to form in the Quartet # 2 (1925). The Quartet #5 is a passionate, headstrong work, born of inner tensions. After the Quartet # 6 (1946),which one could caricature as analogous to Dvorak's "American" Quartet, Martinů brought his quartet cycle to a climax with his seventh piece, the Concerto da camera, a work of maturity and, maybe, acceptance of fate.

All that for £1 at Buckingham's Hospice Shop.

That's a real bargain!
I very much enjoyed listening to these when my set arrived just a while back: you've prompted me to give them another outing!

[Hitch]

Saint-Saëns: Five Symphonies

Orchestre National de l'ORTF, cond. Jean Martinon
EMI, 2 CD

The charity shops in my part of the world never seem to have classical music on their shelves, so it was a pleasant surprise to stumble across this. I know the Organ Symphony but the other four are an enticing mystery. The price was £1 but some of my shame-facedness at grabbing this bargain was assuaged by buying more items from the shop.

[LeMartinPecheur]

What odds might I have got on 2 different LP recordings of the Brahms 3rd piano trio in 2 different Liskeard charity shops on Monday?? Aller/ Holywood 4tet (priced at an extortionate 20p) and Quartetto di Roma (£1) on a nice DG SLPM coupled with a Suk Trio Dumky which IIRC got a favourable nod for performance on the recent BaL, albeit quickly dropped for thin recording

Also netted on LP at a quid a go: Emil and Elena Gilels (DG) in Schubert piano duets (3-star in Penguin but apparently not issued on CD?) , Barbirolli/ Halle in Schubert 9 in an early pressing, and a couple of Supraphons, the Suk Trio again in Smetana and, ahem, Suk, and both Smetana quartets from who else but the Smetana Quartet?

Passed up owing to scratches a Talich Asrael Symph, but may succumb next week. Seems there is, probably was, someone in the town with vast enthusiasm for Czech music!

[pastoralguy]

Productive day today!

I took a client for a trawl of the charity shops in North Berwick and found...

Penderecki 'Credo'. Antonio Wit conducting Polish forces on Naxos.

Haydn. 'An Imaginery Orchestral Journey' devised by Sir Simon on LSO Live. (SACD!)

Jonas Kaufmann sings Verdi on SONY.

John Kitchen plays British Light Music on the Usher Hall Organ. Still wrapped. I was thinking of buying Mrs. PG this for Christmas!

André Campra. 'Tancrédi'. Olivier Schneebeli, conductor. Early French Opera isn't really my thing but I'm enjoying listening as I make a huge batch of spaghetti Bolognaise!

Puccini. Madame Butterfly. Sferisterio OperanFestival Opera on Blu-Ray.

£6.00 the lot!!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Exeter yesterday and a good haul, though much of it at not exactly throwaway prices Best bargain: 50p for Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov on Ampico rolls. The rest:
The Shunske Sato Bach disc that has caused some controversy on the recent BaL thread
Mahler 4, VPO/ Maazel (to replace a scratched LP)
Regine Crespin's Nuits d'ete, Sheherazade + Poulenc & Debussy songs
Handel Apollo & Dafne (Standage)
Pameau Castor & Pollux dances & choruses (Christie)
Mozart oboe quartet, horn quintet, Hunt quartet (Lindsays)
Mozart piano works (Wallisch) including the B minor Adagio K540 that rather thrilled me in a concert - not a very well known or much recorded work