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[Der lächelnde Schatten]

An interesting point you are mentioning here. I also have so much cds that I will not be able to listen to them in a lifetime. We moved 3 years ago and then I sold a part of my collection (approx. 25%), because of the kilos and the fact that I could not imagine me listening to everything. However, I regret some of my sold items and have even bought back a few. Until one year ago, I hardly listened to pre 1950s recordings, but I became interested after I found some of those old Bayreuth Wagner recordings in the thrift store. Last month I found a cassette deck in the thrift store, alas most of my cassettes were put in the dust bin years ago. Luckily I have some left, and it is also a great way of listening to music and another way of collecting.
So I changed my mind, it is great to have a library where loads of items are waiting to be picked out one day, or maybe they never will. You can never predict what you will be listening to in 10 or 20 years time...

And you also bring an interesting point: one of the great pleasures of my life is having amassed a large CD collection. As you touched on, even if I don't ever get around to listening to something, the fact that the recording is sitting there to be discovered is why I'm glad I've accumulated all of these CDs. Perhaps I'm being nostalgic here but when I pull out a recording and hold it in my hands, I get an enormous satisfaction from it. I can flip through and read the liner notes. Look at the cover art and just take in all the care and attention that this physical product received. The sensation is even greater when it's a beautifully-assembled box set (like one of those deluxe or collector's editions).

You're exactly right in that people don't know what they'll be listening to in the future, but by having such a large library, you can rest assured that, if anything, it'll be an interesting selection.

[Roasted Swan]

Ah - another think we have in common - magic shows!
As a 13 year old I was packed off to 'Bar-mitzvah' classes at the West London Synagogue in Marble Arch. I hated them and learnt no Hebrew (in the end my much cleverer older brother had to write the portion out in English phonetics which I learnt by heart and smuggled in past the rabbi). However, the good thing about Marble Arch was the magic shop there (c.1968). In charge was a very kind man who demonstrated all kinds of magic tricks to me which I then enacted out in front of my family. I recall a 'magic box' with a secret sloping mirror inside into which things like coloured handkerchiefs would 'disappear'. A small guillotine which would apparently slice off my finger and a trick card pack. Happy memories!

I don't remember the magic shop by Marble Arch!  BUT there was the famous "Davenports" shop literally opposite the entrance to the British Museum and you could go in there and all the staff demonstrated things wonderfully.  Likewise downstairs at Hamleys on Regent Street they demonstrated.  When we had trips to London from home in Liverpool - those two shops were my main draw!

[André]

Anybody knows these works ? I have no idea what awaits me, but Ingolfsson is a major artist I greatly admire.

[JBS]

Anybody knows these works ? I have no idea what awaits me, but Ingolfsson is a major artist I greatly admire.

I have a recording of the Viola Sonata, which is apparently her best known work, but I don't remember anything beyond that bare fact, and that I felt positive about it when I heard it.

[JBS]

An interesting point you are mentioning here. I also have so much cds that I will not be able to listen to them in a lifetime. We moved 3 years ago and then I sold a part of my collection (approx. 25%), because of the kilos and the fact that I could not imagine me listening to everything. However, I regret some of my sold items and have even bought back a few. Until one year ago, I hardly listened to pre 1950s recordings, but I became interested after I found some of those old Bayreuth Wagner recordings in the thrift store. Last month I found a cassette deck in the thrift store, alas most of my cassettes were put in the dust bin years ago. Luckily I have some left, and it is also a great way of listening to music and another way of collecting.
So I changed my mind, it is great to have a library where loads of items are waiting to be picked out one day, or maybe they never will. You can never predict what you will be listening to in 10 or 20 years time...

My old cheapo CD player died, so while checking for a replacement cheapo CD player, I noticed quite a few include cassette decks. Cassettes may be coming back. (Will 8-track be far behind?)

So keep those cassettes handy. Along with a pencil.

[Kalevala]

My old cheapo CD player died, so while checking for a replacement cheapo CD player, I noticed quite a few include cassette decks. Cassettes may be coming back. (Will 8-track be far behind?)

So keep those cassettes handy. 

My old cheapo CD player died, so while checking for a replacement cheapo CD player, I noticed quite a few include cassette decks. Cassettes may be coming back. (Will 8-track be far behind?)

So keep those cassettes handy. Along with a pencil.

I actually knew someone who years ago (maybe early 2000s?) who liked to buy them to play in his cars.  Interestingly enough, he sold high-end audio for a living.      I got rid of most of mine...a few left.  I see them for sale at a local record store, but haven't bought any.  I still have an old (double) cassette player though it's not hooked up at the moment.

K

[Que]

My old cheapo CD player died, so while checking for a replacement cheapo CD player, I noticed quite a few include cassette decks. Cassettes may be coming back. (Will 8-track be far behind?)

So keep those cassettes handy. Along with a pencil.

As a kid I found cassettes the worst invention ever!  Horrible (and quickly deteriorating) sound too...

LPs were also awful... all that fuss of putting on the needle.. 

The CD was a Godsend!

[nico1616]

As a kid I found cassettes the worst invention ever!  Horrible (and quickly deteriorating) sound too...

LPs were also awful... all that fuss of putting on the needle.. 

The CD was a Godsend!

The CD was indeed a Godsend at the time. But the once cursed cassettes and LP's are pure nostalgia: the artwork of an LP, the muffled sound of a cassette, I just love them too

[nico1616]

Every time I go to the thrift store, I wonder if there is anything more I could possibly find there, after all the treasures I found these last months. And to my surprise, there was again: the Klemperer Don Giovanni! The Kleiber Tristan! A Keilberth Lohengrin!
Am I really the only one in Bruges who is interested in these for 1,50 euro a piece

[Que]

Every time I go to the thrift store, I wonder if there is anything more I could possibly find there, after all the treasures I found these last months. And to my surprise, there was again: the Klemperer Don Giovanni! The Kleiber Tristan! A Keilberth Lohengrin!
Am I really the only one in Bruges who is interested in these for 1,50 euro a piece

It all seems to come from the same collection. Or is that the result of your selection?

[nico1616]

It all seems to come from the same collection. Or is that the result of your selection?

I also thought that at first, there is a lot of Mozart (loads of Nozze's, Cosi's...), historic Wagner, Fritz Wunderlich ... But then there are also doubles, sometimes a box I bought pops up again the next time I get there, or even in threefold. And it has been going on since October last year, when I first visited. They can not linger so long to sell one collection, they need the storage so everything that gets in must get out asap. We have a quite famous classical store here (Rombaux) and lots of cds have that sticker on them.
My guess is a few ageing classical collectors from the region moved to a smaller flat, by coincidence these last months and their family dumped their collection to the biggest thrift store nearby.

Makes me wonder what will happen with my collection in xx years...

[Que]

My guess is a few ageing classical collectors from the region moved to a smaller flat, by coincidence these last months and their family dumped their collection to the biggest thrift store nearby.

Or they moved to somewhere else, much more spacious...

Makes me wonder what will happen with my collection in xx years...

You know, all I hope for is that most parts of my collection will end up with people who appreciate it, instead of being destroyed.

[Florestan]

Every time I go to the thrift store, I wonder if there is anything more I could possibly find there, after all the treasures I found these last months. And to my surprise, there was again: the Klemperer Don Giovanni! The Kleiber Tristan! A Keilberth Lohengrin!
Am I really the only one in Bruges who is interested in these for 1,50 euro a piece

The Buchbinder set of Haydn piano sonatas isn't half bad either. Great finds all.

[Kalevala]

Or possibly someone like a *collector or a record store didn't want some of them.

*As in someone who goes around buying up peoples collections and then dumps/donates the ones that they don't want.

By the way, how many CDs are in that Fritz Wunderlich one?  Bet that it's nice! 

K

[nico1616]

Or possibly someone like a *collector or a record store didn't want some of them.

*As in someone who goes around buying up peoples collections and then dumps/donates the ones that they don't want.

By the way, how many CDs are in that Fritz Wunderlich one?  Bet that it's nice! 

K

5cds

[Kalevala]

5cds

Nice!  Thanks for sharing that.  I wonder when/if they did any remasterings for it?  I have several sets of his and some (I believe) complete operatic recordings of his.  I need to revisit his recordings.  What a gorgeous voice and wonderful interpretations.  Hope that you enjoy this set.   

K

[JBS]

From Presto

[Que]

From Presto

You're a fast mover!    I haven't got to listen to those yet....

Please share your thoughts later.

[Roasted Swan]

Once in a while I go onto Ebay and click a link to see "seller's other items".  Its a kind of online equivalent of browsing in a good old fashioned record store - remember those!!??  So I had a really good crop recently - all around the £5 mark (delivered):



So much great music and so many great performances........!

[DavidW]

From Presto

I really like this recording.