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Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 13232 Location: London, England
Sorin Ascended wrote:
Rod Corkin wrote:
We may all be downloading soon, I noticed yesterday the huge Borders store in Oxford St is closing down, that leaves only HMV left in London's main shopping district (and the tiny back-street specialist shop that seems to be recession-proof).
Ugh. I hope not. I've stopped buying downloads for the most part; a CD is so much more stable a format.
It would indeed be a sad day if such a thing came to pass.
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Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:34 am Posts: 3967 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Rod Corkin wrote:
Sorin Ascended wrote:
Rod Corkin wrote:
We may all be downloading soon, I noticed yesterday the huge Borders store in Oxford St is closing down, that leaves only HMV left in London's main shopping district (and the tiny back-street specialist shop that seems to be recession-proof).
Ugh. I hope not. I've stopped buying downloads for the most part; a CD is so much more stable a format.
It would indeed be a sad day if such a thing came to pass.
Lots of online stores still to buy from. For many of us that's our only option when it comes to classical music.
I generally prefer buying a CD, but have no issues buying mp3's--you can always burn them to disc and preserve them that way against a computer crash.
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Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 13232 Location: London, England
smileyman wrote:
Lots of online stores still to buy from.
Oh there's no fun in that! It's much better to browse around a store with a huge CM section like HMV in Oxford street, not knowing what you are looking for, and finding some nice surprise.
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Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 5:44 pm Posts: 2169 Location: Old Blighty
Rod Corkin wrote:
smileyman wrote:
Lots of online stores still to buy from.
Oh there's no fun in that! It's much better to browse around a store with a huge CM section like HMV in Oxford street, not knowing what you are looking for, and finding some nice surprise.
You'd be looking a long time at the HMV in Newcastle before you got a nice surprise. Possibly forever!
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Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Just ordered this...
The complete recordings of Mendelssohn's organ works on a period organ from the 1800's. Out of stock at Amazon, but the pic should take you to somewhere you can order it.
A friend who is a jazz musician said how impressed he was with Stravinsky's Firebird, so I had to check it out. Fortunately, it's only $7 in my music club.
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Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 13232 Location: London, England
I notice Brautigam has released Vol7 of his Beethoven sonatas series. This one includes the Hammerklavier so it will be of particular iterest. Check out the audio clips in this link, haven't heard them yet myself...
Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:34 am Posts: 3967 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Rod Corkin wrote:
I notice Brautigam has released Vol7 of his Beethoven sonatas series. This one includes the Hammerklavier so it will be of particular iterest. Check out the audio clips in this link, haven't heard them yet myself...
Joined: Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:18 am Posts: 191 Location: Perth
Rod Corkin wrote:
smileyman wrote:
Lots of online stores still to buy from.
Oh there's no fun in that! It's much better to browse around a store with a huge CM section like HMV in Oxford street, not knowing what you are looking for, and finding some nice surprise.
One of the reasons that I give my custom mainly to a small shop in Perth called Wesley Classics, they have an incredible range.
We have a Borders, but their classical section is organized as per the bible ... seek and ye shall find!
Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:34 am Posts: 3967 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Graham1973 wrote:
Rod Corkin wrote:
smileyman wrote:
Lots of online stores still to buy from.
Oh there's no fun in that! It's much better to browse around a store with a huge CM section like HMV in Oxford street, not knowing what you are looking for, and finding some nice surprise.
One of the reasons that I give my custom mainly to a small shop in Perth called Wesley Classics, they have an incredible range.
We have a Borders, but their classical section is organized as per the bible ... seek and ye shall find!
I'd rather give my business to an actual store, but I don't have many options here. I have a Hastings (pitiful collection), a Barnes & Noble (even worse), and an excellent used record store, if you're into punk music that is. I actually own more Brahms discs than their entire classical section. It's quite pathetic.
Thus I must shop online to get the music I want.
_________________ "I learned more from a three minute record, than I ever did in school."
We have a Borders, but their classical section is organized as per the bible ... seek and ye shall find!
Ha! It reminds me of our old Media Play store before it closed down. One time I was looking for a Schubert piece which wasn't there, so I thought like a Media Play clerk and looked in the Schumann section - there it was.
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