Buying Vinyl?

Yeah budo, thanks for the Hennix rec (you had me at "harpsichord-adjacent" lol). About 10 minutes into it and I'm flying.

Also awesome that you have the Walcha WTC box. Desert island material for me.

i meant the Leonhardt box actually!

but i will definitely check out the Walcha recording

Oh sorry. The Leonhardt is just as awesome! I also love the cover design on that box, really suits the dark gothic vibe of the music.

I'm just gonna buy them both ;)

and yes, old used classical vinyl is absolutely one of the best bangs for your buck in terms of value for money

I love this thing:
https://www.discogs.com/release/4340406-Sibelius-Okko-Kamu-Herbert-von-Karajan-Gerhard-Stempnik-Radion-Sinfoniaorkesteri-Berliner-Philharmon

I'm just gonna buy them both ;)

This is the way.

Been meaning to get some Sibelius and that set looks lovely

I also wonder if/when the general shoddiness of new pressings is going to catch up with them

my new vinyl buying has dwindled to a trickle (those prices!) but the few i do pick up have been surprisingly/happily free of issues bar the occasional bit of distortion (grrr the reissue of ptah the el daoud notably), def not as bad as some of the rubbish pressings i have from the 2010s era looking at you 4mwb.

re classical scores: my shelves are BULGING with cheap & amazing classical lps... will forever bless the day i lucked into a mint copy of this for the equivalent of about 5 us dollars!

I picked up this from a National Trust shop the other day, unplayed and sounds amazing and has a lovely booklet as part of the box set:
https://www.discogs.com/release/10359578-Klemperer-Wagner-The-Philharmonia-Orchestra-Klemperer-Conducts-Wagner

I remember NickB provided some tips about what to look out for when buying second-hand classical vinyl, I will try to look those out and re-post

My main interest in classical vinyl is the 60s/70s avant stuff like Stockhausen and Xenakis, unfortunately the prices on those sets went through the roof years ago.

This is definitely one of the tricks to still enjoying collecting records - find stuff the general public don't want lol. Classical records are so plentiful and cheap at pretty much every store. There are a bunch of genres like that, too. I collect local country/folk/country rock records from the 70s and yeah there are the whales that command some money but so much is available for under $10. Many of them are miserable but sifting through is part of the whole thing, really.

xp no lime tangier, that Messiaen box looks incredible. I had no idea he recorded his own organ works! I'll have to track that down at some point, though I'm sure I'll have to pay a bit more than $5...

Another recent classical vinyl epiphany: Quartetto Italiano's 1965 recording of Debussy and Ravel's String Quartets on Philips (early Netherlands pressing). They're best versions I've heard of those magical quartets with surprisingly great fidelity for 1965; the recording sounds like it could have been made yesterday.

My main interest in classical vinyl is the 60s/70s avant stuff like Stockhausen and Xenakis, unfortunately the prices on those sets went through the roof years ago.

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:16 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's been my experience that a lot of this can still be had for under $10!

xp*They're the best, that is

xp budo jeru Yeah I feel like almost every record store I've visited recently has a copy of this pressing of Xenakis's Metastasis / Pithoprakta / Eonta for under $10. But it's true the rarer Stockhausen, Xenakis, et al. pressings can be outrageously expensive.

I actually have had my eyes on a nice $45 copy of Stockhausen's Hymnen (mid-70s Deutsche Grammophon reissue) at a local shop for a while, but every time I go I find something cheaper that excites me even more.