What CD, book, DVD etc are you waiting for?

[amateur51]

Just taken delivery of the re-mastered set of the Shostakovich symphonies from Kondrashin and the Moscow PO.

So far this year I've had 15 CD's and 1 DVD and I had better watch out my bank manager doesn't tell me he's now banking with me!

Time to take it easy now, I think. This thread could be another very expensive one!

Did you find the Shostakovich at some wondrously cheap price Petrushka or are you just flush & carefree at the mo?

[cloughie]

75% mark-up? I think you've been done!

Not yet and the bidding will have to go higher!

[cloughie]

Did you find the Shostakovich at some wondrously cheap price Petrushka or are you just flush & carefree at the mo?

Good question - a set I've looked into, but found like bambi!

[Beef Oven]

£2.50 and my conker (it's a twenty sevener)

Not true! Cloughie got a shrink-wrapped Barbirolli Bruckner 7 BBC Legends in a charity shop for £1!! He's selling it to me for £1.75.

Not yet and the bidding will have to go higher!

[Roehre]

I honestly can't remember - it was quite a while ago now!

Don't mention that one. iirc I got mine as far back as 1975

[Bryn]

8509002 Debussy - Complete Orchestral Works, and
WHRA6040 Juilliard String Quartet: The Celebrated Early Recordings

have probably already arrived at my work base, but I will not be able to collect them until tomorrow.

[cloughie]

£2.50 and my conker (it's a twenty sevener)

Sorry, but they've been rendered suspect on H&S grounds!

[Beef Oven]

Don't mention that one. iirc I got mine as far back as 1975

I only had a few classical albums in '75 - some George Szell conducting Prokofiev and Kodaly, the Tchaikovsky ballet suites, Carmen hilights and an amazing Wagner overtures set that I do not know the band or conductor. I had a massive rock collection though (as many teenagers did)!

[Beef Oven]

I used to have my cds delivered at work so my wife could not see the full scale of my indulgence.

Don't know why I worried, she only used to waste the money on food and clothes for the children.

8509002 Debussy - Complete Orchestral Works, and
WHRA6040 Juilliard String Quartet: The Celebrated Early Recordings

have probably already arrived at my work base, but I will not be able to collect them until tomorrow.

[cloughie]

I'm contemplating vol 2 of Hyperion's complete Strauss Lieder - it's got the Ophelia songs on it. I've bought the latest - vol 5 - & very much enjoy it, & I heard the Ophelia songs at one of the BBC Scottish SO's post-concert Coda recitals & like them. The CDs are available on the HMV website at rather less than Amazon are selling them at.

I've also recently bought the Stemme/Doming/ Pappano Tristan und Isolde, but not listened to it yet.

Non-musical - I've also just bought the DVD of Sophia Coppola's film about Anselm Kiefer - Over your cities the grass will grow. I saw it last year when it was on cinema release, & was so bowled over (indeed, blown away) by it that I would have been more than happy to sit through it again immediately.

The R Strauss Vol2 has the benefit of the lovely voice of Anne Schwanewilms - I bought the CD some time ago on the strength of her Four Last Songs (Live BBC MM) and other songs with the Halle and Elder. I have not been disappointed.

[Flosshilde]

I had a massive rock collection though (as many teenagers did)!

I used to have a pretty good one too. Especially ones collected while we were on holiday in the Lake District. My father used to get quite annoyed when I tried to tuck them into the boot - he thought they would weigh the car down too much.

[cloughie]

had a massive rock collection though (as many teenagers did)!

That was presumably in your Rock 'n' Rollover days, did you tell Tchaikovsky?

[Jonathan]

I've got Glazunov (symphonies, complete), Spohr (Nonet and Octet) Beach (Piano music vol.2) coming to me via the postal service...

[Beef Oven]

I only told him the news.

That was presumably in your Rock 'n' Rollover days, did you tell Tchaikovsky?

[Petrushka]

Did you find the Shostakovich at some wondrously cheap price Petrushka or are you just flush & carefree at the mo?

One doesn't tend to listen to Shostakovich when flush and carefree, Am51. I got it for £52 from MDT and no doubt someone will tell me now I could have got it from CD's R Us for £2.50.

There have just been so many recommendations on here (and I did have one or two nice wins on the horses).