CD Bargains!

During our trip to Masham I paid a visit to the Wensleydale Railway Station at Leyburn. We have travelled on this railway on a previous visit, but the reason for calling at the station was not to buy tickets to travel on the train, but to peruse the second hand CD's, DVD's and Books which are for sale there. Someone who donates CD's to the F.O.L.S. (Friends of Leyburn Station) is a classical music lover, and it is very rare I visit the station without purchasing, some classical CD or other!

This time it was a recording of Smetana's Ma Vlast (My Country)

performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker and conducted by James Levine, and a double CD of music composed by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly.

I had seen this double CD on sale in various online sources for £10.00 - £12.00 but I got it from Leyburn Station for £4.00!

The following day we visited Thorp Perrow Arboretum near Bedale, and after having a bowl of soup in the cafe at Thorp Perrow, we went into Bedale. There is an Age Concern Charity Shop in Bedale which usually has a good selection of CD's, DVD's and Books, and I came away from there with 3 CD's, and, it must be a sign of the difficult economic times, when the lady behind the counter said "We're selling them at three for the price of two!"

My selection was, again, all classical music......

This contains a selection of classical music which Torvill and Dean skated to. You will most certainly remember their version of Ravel's Bolero, which scored them a top "10" marks in competition.

I bought this simply to see what the CD companies are pushing as Wedding Music.There were the usual Bridal Chorus and Wedding March and Trumpet Voluntary, but one or two surprises. I was quite surprised to see J.S. Bach's Bist du Bei Mir, Boccherini's Minuet and Walford Davies God be in my Head listed, as well as Sigfreid Karg-Elert's Marche Triomphale "Nun Danket".

There was the usual selection of popular classical pieces on this CD, including Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, John Williams' Star Wars Theme, Nessun Dorma, Vivaldi's Four Season, Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance etc.