Charity Shop Trawl

[Barbirollians]

I recently compared Mitsuko's ECO/Tate recordings with the later ones she did in Cleveland and in every case I found I preferred the earlier ones.

I only bought the first two of that Cleveland set and found them disappointing especially K271 . Tate was a very fine Mozartian and it tells.

[smittims]

Yes, I still return to his box set of 51 Mozart symphonies made mostly at Abbey Road in the 1980s. Quite as good as the Karl Bohm, I think .

[LMcD]

Not actually a charity shop trawl, but Ipswich Central Library is selling off books and CDs, and for £1 I acquired a 3-CD set of Mozart Sting Quintets (Amadeus Quartet/Aronowitz) and Il Pianoforte -Ravel played by Cécile Ousset.

[Tapiola]

Recent purchase of the Hyperion Goerne/Johnson "Wintereisse", complete with doorstopper booklet notes by Johnson. £1.