Record stores in Rome?

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October 03, 2023, 10:42:26 PM Last Edit: October 04, 2023, 03:11:19 AM by Que
I'm currently staying in Rome for the week.

Are there still any record stores selling Classical CDs left worth visiting? Particularly a store selling used CDs would be awesome, but I'm not getting my hopes up...

Any pointers would be much appreciated! :)

ando

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October 04, 2023, 06:25:10 AM
La Discoteca al Pantheon
Via della Minerva, 10, Roma RM, Italy

When I was there some twenty years ago it had a nice classical section. Heard the Pope visits every now and then. Ha.

spooky

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October 04, 2023, 03:00:25 PM
Millerecords
https://www.millerecords.it/en/

in Via Merulana 91, Rome
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that was blowing..." Rojas, 1603

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October 04, 2023, 03:40:22 PM
Quote from: Que on October 03, 2023, 10:42:26 PMI'm currently staying in Rome for the week.

Are there still any record stores selling Classical CDs left worth visiting? Particularly a store selling used CDs would be awesome, but I'm not getting my hopes up...

Wouldn't it be cool if you found a Respighi CD of Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome?  :D
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October 04, 2023, 05:49:29 PM
Quote from: Que on October 03, 2023, 10:42:26 PMI'm currently staying in Rome for the week.

Are there still any record stores selling Classical CDs left worth visiting? Particularly a store selling used CDs would be awesome, but I'm not getting my hopes up...

Any pointers would be much appreciated! :)
I ran across this article (not just about selling vinyl).  You might want to try googling the stores. https://www.romeing.it/record-vinyl-stores-rome/  How much classical you might find, I don't know.  Do ask though as most music and retail people will do their best to help you find those sellers if they know of them.

Hope that you enjoy your time in Rome!

PD

Que

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October 05, 2023, 01:24:04 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 04, 2023, 05:49:29 PMI ran across this article (not just about selling vinyl).  You might want to try googling the stores. https://www.romeing.it/record-vinyl-stores-rome/  How much classical you might find, I don't know.  Do ask though as most music and retail people will do their best to help you find those sellers if they know of them.

Hope that you enjoy your time in Rome!

PD

Thanks, greatly enjoying the city on this 2nd visit.

And I saw the online listing which like most other seems to focus on Vinyl in non-Classical genres.

But I might give Millerecords, also recomended by spooky, a try.  :)

Que

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October 08, 2023, 01:33:54 AM Last Edit: October 08, 2023, 01:35:50 AM by Que
Just in case someone else made the pilgrimage, my impressions of Millerecords.

Small store, packed with LP's with all kinds of music including Classical. A ten minutes walk from Termini train station.

Despite the heavy focus on vinyl, there was a fairly sized collection of Classical CD's - a couple of hundreds. Now, I was hoping for some rare issues on small Italian labels but there was none of that. 90% was main (Classical & Romantic) repertoire on the bigger labels like DG, EMI, Decca, RCA, etc. The most outlandish things were some issues on Harmonia Mundi. I think this is a deliberate decision by the owner to go for the "easy to sell" stuff. The stuff I personally do not particularly need more of. And which collector nowadays does?

The items on offer also weren't cheap. I considered a not-so-pristine copy of O'Dette's Dowland set. I would have paid €25-30 or so, but the asking price was the princely sum of €60.

I ended up walking away with a Brilliant set of Von Weber sonatas by Jan Vermeulen on fortepiano.

Florestan

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October 08, 2023, 02:23:16 AM
Quote from: Que on October 08, 2023, 01:33:54 AMa deliberate decision by the owner to go for the "easy to sell" stuff.

Can you blame them? In these days it's a miracle the shop even exists.  ;D
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Que

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October 08, 2023, 03:06:27 AM Last Edit: October 08, 2023, 03:11:24 AM by Que
Quote from: Florestan on October 08, 2023, 02:23:16 AMCan you blame them? In these days it's a miracle the shop even exists.  ;D


But he is mistaken. The main-of-the-road stuff is what anybody that is still collecting CDs doesn't need (anymore).

BTW from what I have seen he makes his real money on vinyl collectors. Saw a young man from Korea dish out a couple of hundreds of euros on a small pile of LP's. "All very rare and highly collectible" according to the owner - before he disclosed the total amount he wanted for them.  ;)

Florestan

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October 08, 2023, 03:16:23 AM
Quote from: Que on October 08, 2023, 03:06:27 AMBut he is mistaken. The main-of-the-road stuff is what anybody that is still collecting CDs doesn't need (anymore).

It would have been interesting to tell him that and see what his thinking was.

QuoteBTW from what I have seen he makes his real money on vinyl collectors. Saw a young man from Korea dish out a couple of hundreds of euros on a small pile of LP's. "All very rare and highly collectible" according to the owner - before he disclosed the total amount he wanted for them.  ;)

Squeeze then hard and squeeze them now --- tomorrow they'll be far away.  :D
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October 08, 2023, 05:07:00 AM
Quote from: Que on October 08, 2023, 01:33:54 AMJust in case someone else made the pilgrimage, my impressions of Millerecords.

Small store, packed with LP's with all kinds of music including Classical. A ten minutes walk from Termini train station.

Despite the heavy focus on vinyl, there was a fairly sized collection of Classical CD's - a couple of hundreds. Now, I was hoping for some rare issues on small Italian labels but there was none of that. 90% was main (Classical & Romantic) repertoire on the bigger labels like DG, EMI, Decca, RCA, etc. The most outlandish things were some issues on Harmonia Mundi. I think this is a deliberate decision by the owner to go for the "easy to sell" stuff. The stuff I personally do not particularly need more of. And which collector nowadays does?

The items on offer also weren't cheap. I considered a not-so-pristine copy of O'Dette's Dowland set. I would have paid €25-30 or so, but the asking price was the princely sum of €60.

I ended up walking away with a Brilliant set of Von Weber sonatas by Jan Vermeulen on fortepiano.
Well, there could be a couple of reasons why you didn't see more of what you were looking for including the possibility that he's selling the rarer items online.  I know at least two stores (that I regularly go to) that do this.  One store, when I asked about classical LPs, brought out several crates of them and let me look through them.  I ended up buying a couple of them.

PD
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