Charity Shop Trawl

[Barbirollians]

A 2-CD set of Mozart Piano Concertos with Friedrich Gulda/Claudio Abbado/VP0 for a voluntary donation of £1. I'm currently listening to K466 and am very impressed with both the performance and the recording.

These are lovely performances LmCD - a bargain indeed. I always fought shy of Gulda - by reports of his supposedly jazz influenced playing of classical works . Turned out to be bilge in my experience there is a great K271 on Orfeo live with Bohm and his Beethoven concertos with Horst Stein are wonderful.

[mikealdren]

A 2-CD set of Mozart Piano Concertos with Friedrich Gulda/Claudio Abbado/VP0 for a voluntary donation of £1. I'm currently listening to K466 and am very impressed with both the performance and the recording.

I completely agree, they don't seem to crop up when they do BaL on Mozart concerti but they should.

[LMcD]

50p for BBC MM CD Vol. 22 No. 10 - Elgar Violin Concerto (James Ehnes - excellent as always) and Spirit of England, which I shall listen to tomorrow.

[Barbirollians]

Bargain!

Certainly was . Terrific from Zimerman /Rattle even surpassing my previous favourite of Rana/Pappano.

[Barbirollians]

Very touching sleeve note that Bernstein had asked Zimerman to play the piece with him when he was 100 - sadly the cigarettes killed him long before that age .

[Pulcinella]

Certainly was . Terrific from Zimerman /Rattle even surpassing my previous favourite of Rana/Pappano.

Worth cross-posting and seeing if you can breathe some new (Autumn) life into our Summer BaL?

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/classical-forum/record-review/our-summer-bal/1342296-our-summer-bal-92-bernstein-symphony-2-the-age-of-anxiety

[smittims]

I thought this worth a mention. I found an unopened (still cellophane-sealed) LP copy of the 12 London Symphonies of Haydn in the famous Dorati recording. Unopened for fifty years too ,as the sticker on the cover says : 'Special price until September 1975: £7.50'.

A few years ago I found, also second-hand, two LP volumes of the Oiseau-Lyre Hogwood/Schroder Mozart Symphonies. In this case they were 40 eyars old. I'd be inteersted to hear of similar finds.

[visualnickmos]

I thought this worth a mention. I found an unopened (still cellophane-sealed) LP copy of the 12 London Symphonies of Haydn in the famous Dorati recording. Unopened for fifty years too ,as the sticker on the cover says : 'Special price until September 1975: £7.50'.

A not inconsiderable sum for its time.

[Barbirollians]

Dvorak 9 RPO/Horenstein- Chesky £1.99

Ravel Daphnis and Chloe MSO/Dutoit £1

My local Oxfam had masses of CDs by Solti, Ashkenazy and Renata Tebaldi and very little else in the classical section - and all at £3. So not that cheap except for a few of the Tebadi operas but I already owned quite a few of them.

[pastoralguy]

The very first cd I ever bought was Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart’s 20th & 21st Piano Concertos with The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate. It cost, iirc, about £12, a large sum in the mid 80’s.

Today, in the Oxfam shop in Haddington, I purchased the whole of that Uchida/Tate/ECO cycle for… £2.00! 6 discs. Lovely condition with no scratches or blemishes. How time has changed.

[smittims]

The availablility and future of CDs is quite a topic. At one time they felt CDs were finished and manufacturers stopped marketing CD players. Now they realise there are so many second-hand that it's worth keeping up . It's ironic: walk into an HMV shop (those still open) and it seems to be all T-shirts and trinkets. But Charity shops have shelves full of CDs . I bought a CD last week for the first time in years - the 1954 Norma with Maria Callas. I don't even know it it's available new.

[pastoralguy]

I was in Glasgow today and paid a visit to Byers Road in the University District where charity shops are in abundance. Alas, it’s always been very inexpensive to park there but the council are now charging £1.20 for 15 minutes! As a result, my exploration was both brief and rushed.

The Oxfam music shop usually has a good selection but today was slightly disappointing although I did manage to pick up 3 CDs that were reasonably priced and unusual including a disc of Ligeti piano etudes.

Two of the shops I visited have discontinued stocking CDs but still have LPs at a premium price! Sign of the times I suppose.