Charity Shop Trawl

[Edgy 2]

Faure - Requiem, Messe Basse, Cantique de Jean Racine + Vierne & de Severac, various artists cond Jeremy Summerley NAXOS
English organ music vol 2, Elgar, RVW, Whitlock, Parry, Howells, Sumsion, Donald Hunt NAXOS
Schubert - Quartets D810 & 703, Caspar da Salo Quartet CLASSIC DIGITAL
Dussek - 4 symphonies, Helsinki Baroque, Aapo Hakkinen NAXOS
Bach - Partita 1, English Suite 3 French Suite 2, Maria Joao Pires DG
Cherubini- Requiem, March Funebre, various artists cond Diego Fasolis NAXOS
Prokofiev - Symphonies 1 & 5, LA Philharmonic, Andre Previn PHILIPS
Brahms - String Sextets, Stuttgart soloists NAXOS

10p each

[Edgy 2]

Ooh forgot to add

Schubert - Impromptus D 899 2 & 3, sonatas D 625 & 959, Geoffrey Saba IMP CLASSICS (which I have just listened to) also 10p

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Bumping this thread back up....

Berg/Schoenberg/Webern orchestral works BPO/Karajan DG Originals
Berwald Symphonies 1&2
Berwald Symphonies 3&4 - both Helsingborg SO/Kamu
Alwyn Piano Concertos - Donohoe/Bournemouth SO/Judd

All 99p a pop.

[Dave2002]

Bumping this thread back up....

Berg/Schoenberg/Webern orchestral works BPO/Karajan DG Originals
Berwald Symphonies 1&2
Berwald Symphonies 3&4 - both Helsingborg SO/Kamu
Alwyn Piano Concertos - Donohoe/Bournemouth SO/Judd

All 99p a pop.

Looks good - haven't had so much luck for quite a while.

[pastoralguy]

In my experience, charity shops tend to have light pickings over the festive season but things are starting to pick up again.

[JasonPalmer]

I volunteer at the local mind shop one morning a week and we do 10 cds for a pound. Glad to have found this thread, sorry for starting another one, did not know this existed.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Looks good - haven't had so much luck for quite a while.

Not guilty! I did give Oxfam in Inverness a little visit while there over Christmas but there was little of interest. Hope it picks up!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I volunteer at the local mind shop one morning a week and we do 10 cds for a pound. Glad to have found this thread, sorry for starting another one, did not know this existed.

You've nudged this one back into activity, so no need to apologise. :)

[Dave2002]

I volunteer at the local mind shop one morning a week and we do 10 cds for a pound. Glad to have found this thread, sorry for starting another one, did not know this existed.

Ten for a pound - sounds good!

[ChandlersFord]

Yesterday, in Sheffield:

Britten/Pears - Schumann, Dichterliebe and Wolf, Songs (BBC recordings on Testament)

Orff - Carmina (NPO/Fruhbeck de Burgos)

50p each. Wasn’t going to bother with the latter - who needs more than one recording of CB? - but thought I would, anyway.

Later, on an Oxfam bookshop, found a homemade combi pack of Bruckner:Mass 2 and Mass in C Major, along with excerpts from Scottish Opera’s 70s productions of Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier. £1.99 for three discs.

[oddoneout]

Ten for a pound - sounds good!

In December a couple of the shops in town had the same offer so I got one lot from each and over Christmas started working my way through them. Making the initial shop selections were time consuming because the CDs were all mixed together so it meant hunting through dozens of "no interest" cases. In one shop they had been stacked in piles of 15-20 on a small table with no spare space to put the rejected ones. I ended up just putting them on the floor while I continued my search. I mentioned the problem to the shop manager when I paid, suggesting putting them on end in a couple of boxes so they could be flipped through, and she just blustered about how they were a charity and couldn't afford to spend money on buying boxes. I suggested looking for the stout shallow tomato boxes from the supermarkets that a couple of other shops sometimes use ( the library sometimes uses banana boxes when it has its periodic clearouts of CDs and DVDs) and also pointed out that if people can't look through the stock they won't buy. Some time later I noticed that they had managed to find a couple of "proper" boxes after all.
The haul, as expected, included some which have gone back into the charity system, but there are far more I'm very happy to have, and glad I took the time to go through rather a lot of dross. Volume 2 of L'Oiseau Lyre "The Original Sound" is one such and has been played several times. Some of the music on it I have played, some has other memories and some was new to me, a good mix.

[gradus]

Yesterday, in Sheffield:

Britten/Pears - Schumann, Dichterliebe and Wolf, Songs (BBC recordings on Testament)

Orff - Carmina (NPO/Fruhbeck de Burgos)

50p each. Wasn’t going to bother with the latter - who needs more than one recording of CB? - but thought I would, anyway.

Later, on an Oxfam bookshop, found a homemade combi pack of Bruckner:Mass 2 and Mass in C Major, along with excerpts from Scottish Opera’s 70s productions of Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier. £1.99 for three discs.

You've landed the best recording of CB imv.

[ChandlersFord]

You've landed the best recording of CB imv.

Most people seem to go for Jochum.

Not heard the FdeB yet, but reading reviews online it does seem to be highly rated. The version I have is the first remastering from the 90s; the second remastering (issued on a budget label) is supposedly superior. I shall listen with interest, now.

[oddoneout]

In my experience, charity shops tend to have light pickings over the festive season but things are starting to pick up again.

Unfortunately, despite a good choice of charity shops in town, it's always light pickings here. Some have stopped selling CDs altogether("no-one uses CDs now") and of the rest the selection would suggest that musical tastes are limited, to say the least. The shops in the city might well be better, but it's been a good few years since I have done charity shop trawls there (for anything) so I don't know where they are now. Something to do when the weather is less cold.

[ChandlersFord]

Unfortunately, despite a good choice of charity shops in town, it's always light pickings here. Some have stopped selling CDs altogether("no-one uses CDs now") and of the rest the selection would suggest that musical tastes are limited, to say the least. The shops in the city might well be better, but it's been a good few years since I have done charity shop trawls there (for anything) so I don't know where they are now. Something to do when the weather is less cold.

I was in Dereham a couple of years ago - even in a small town like that, I managed to pick up a few items of interest (one of the Unknown Piano Concerto series and Abbado's LSO Firebird and Rite coupling, iirc). It's very rare for me to come back from a chazza expedition empty-handed, no matter where I am. Sometimes, the best finds are in the least likely places.