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Went on a couple of charity shop vinyl binges in my current effort to get into classical music. Aside from a few particular pieces/composers that I know I like, I don't really know much at all about pre 20th century classical music at all, so I've just been buying whatever I can find lying around dirt cheap and listening with an open mind... So far I've found 3 really nice box sets:
Wagner's 'Siegfried'
Shostakovitch's 'Leningrad Symphony'
A 5lp Phillips set of 'Ten Great Violin Concertos' (containing Brahms, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, 2 Bachs, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Paganini)
And I also found one place that was selling records for 2 for a pound, so just pretty much carried everything decent out. Got 10 records. Was especially pleased with a couple of Chopins and Tchaikovsky's 6th, on Glice's recommendation.
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The toothaches got worse, she dreamed of disembodied voices from whose malignance there was no appeal, the soft dusk of mirrors out of which something was about to walk, and empty rooms that waited for her. Your gynaecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.
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