Bargains

[oliver sudden]

Complete Haydn symphonies for a derisory price, anyone?

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/promotions/nimbus/search?search_query=Haydn

[vinteuil]

Complete Haydn symphonies for a derisory price, anyone?

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...ch_query=Haydn

... yes - but - but - I wouldn't put the Adam Fischer/Austro-Hungarian recordings in my top six (useful tho' they were when 'complete' Haydn symphony cycles were a rarity).

[Jonathan]

Last week we were in Gozo on holiday and travelled over to Valetta. While there, I looked at "The oldest record shop in the world" - D'Amato just off the main street. Very little of interest in the classical section (Katherine Jenkins, Andre Rieu etc) but in the bargain bin, quite a lot of Naxos discs at €1.99 so I bought Schmitt - Piano music and Onslow - String Quintets, vol.1. I'll give them a spin when I get a chance.

[Roger Webb]

Last week we were in Gozo on holiday and travelled over to Valetta. While there, I looked at "The oldest record shop in the world" - D'Amato just off the main street. Very little of interest in the classical section (Katherine Jenkins, Andre Rieu etc) but in the bargain bin, quite a lot of Naxos discs at €1.99 so I bought Schmitt - Piano music and Onslow - String Quintets, vol.1. I'll give them a spin when I get a chance.

I used to pop in there when I lived and worked there 1970/71, although we had an account with Tandy's for the radio station stuff - and some our own LPs, but I've still got some of the ones I bought there.

Haven't been back since before covid...in fact last time was when Valletta was European Capitol of Culture in 2018....it's an amazing little place isn't it? Did you manage to get to anything in the Manoel Theatre?

[Jonathan]

I used to pop in there when I lived and worked there 1970/71, although we had an account with Tandy's for the radio station stuff - and some our own LPs, but I've still got some of the ones I bought there.

Haven't been back since before covid...in fact last time was when Valletta was European Capitol of Culture in 2018....it's an amazing little place isn't it? Did you manage to get to anything in the Manoel Theatre?

It is a lovely place Roger, we had a lovely couple of days there mostly just walking around! It was so busy at night too (we got the last ferry back to Mgarr on Monday). Loads of nice places to eat too! The times we were there weren't suitable for going to the theatre sadly - we went to Pretty Bay (Birzebugga) and looked for shells there (I'm a conchologist) and walked to Marsaxlokk as well. We hope to go again at some point but we've been twice in the last 2 years so we'll leave it a while!

[Roger Webb]

It is a lovely place Roger, we had a lovely couple of days there mostly just walking around! It was so busy at night too (we got the last ferry back to Mgarr on Monday). Loads of nice places to eat too! The times we were there weren't suitable for going to the theatre sadly - we went to Pretty Bay (Birzebugga) and looked for shells there (I'm a conchologist) and walked to Marsaxlokk as well. We hope to go again at some point but we've been twice in the last 2 years so we'll leave it a while!

Yes, we'll go again soon...my wife loves it too, she feels we could live there...but....my stamping ground was Sliema, which is so busy now I don't know.....we used to drink 'Hop Leaf' in a little shack on the beach at Marsaxlokk...it's still pretty, but much busier last time we were there.

BTW I mentioned the theatre in Valletta, but Gozo has to be the smallest place on earth that has two opera houses....and on the same street too (Ir-Rabat - used to be Victoria when I was there!).

[Jonathan]

Interesting stuff - I didn't know about the opera houses on Gozo - while we were there, there was a big footballing event going on and apparently, the queue to get the ferry afterwards went from Mgarr to Rabat! Sliema is indeed very busy, my sister and her family stayed there a couple of years ago and said it was heaving! Marsaxlokk was also really busy, we wondered around and sat on the beach for a while. There were loads of fishermen around and lots of pretty coloured boats. It was a very pleasant place for a stop.