I picked up a massive load of free cancelled CDs from the local library

[Mittens Deluxe]

Most of the ones I picked up are classical, but I also picked up another bag full of CDs which were ones I didn't know, which simply looked interesting based on their album artwork, which I didn't include in this post, but some subsequently ended up in here anyways. These are the ones I'm happy showing though, my favorite thing in there are the bach fugues, the bartok string quartets, and the grandest find of all so far is the glenn gould complete goldberg variations box set. A lot of other stuff I just picked up based off of recognizing the name of the composer. Presenting the CDs at the top of the pile is Hatsune Miku, Japanese android singing idol, who will guide you through the collection.

From left to right.



Samuel Barber - The complete solo music - performed by john browning
Philip Glass and Michael Nyman - Works for Saxophone Quartet
Philip Glass - Remixes - By amon tobin, beck, and cornelius
Glenn Gould - Performing various composers works
Chopin - Etudes - Performed by Murray Perahia
Schubert - Lieder - Performed by Elizabeth Watts . Roger Vignoles
Ligeti - String Quartets Nos 1 and 2 - Parker Quartet
Samuel Barber - Adagio - 100th anniversary
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Opp 26, 14, 28 - Murray Perahia
Discoveries by Gustavo Dudamel - Various composers
Bach - Fugues - Emerson String Quartet
I'm not sure what this is
Alfred Schniitke - Piano Quintet / piano trio - multiple performers
Beethoven - String Quartets op 18/3, 18/5, & 135 - Artemis Quartet
Schonbrunn - Summer Night Concert - Wiener Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel
Bach - The Complete Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould
Beethoven / Schostakovich - "Ghost" trio / Trio no 2 - Jupiter Trio
I have no idea what this is, I just picked it up
Felix Mendelssohn - The complete chamber music for strings - Mandelring Quartet



Kenji Bunch - Boiling Point - Alias Chamber Ensemble
I have no idea
Scarlatti - 14 Sonatas - Huguett Dreyfus (japanese pressing)
Brahms - Music for two pianos - emanuel ax & yefim bronfam
Beethoven, Mozart, Webern - various pieces - hagen quartett
Bela Bartok - Piano concertos - Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Richard Strauss - Lieder - Diana Damrau on Soprano
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1, 2, & 3
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas - Featuring Itzak Perlman
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra - New York Philharmonic
Debussy, Ravel, Faure - String Quartets - Quatuor ebene quartet
Bela Bartok - String Quartets nos 5 & 6 - Arcanto Quartett
Big Star - 3rd/sister lovers
Debussy, Ravel - Quartet in g / quartet in f - Cleveland Quartet
Ravel - Orchestra Works - Orchestre National de Lyon . Leonard statkin
I have absolutely no idea what this is and it's in a foreign language (it says riad abdel gawad)
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas op 18a & 106 - Alfred Brendel
Bill Cosby - Cosby and the Kids
Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht . Variationen op 31 - Berliner Philharmoniker
Holmgreen - Chronos quartet plays holmgreen
Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg - Journeys by Emerson String Quartet
Janacek: string quartets nos 1 & 2, Berg: Lyric Suite - Julliard String Quartet
Beethoven - Violinsonaten nos 6-8 - Gidon Kremer / Martha Argerich



Benedikt Jahnel Trio - Equalibrium
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Bartok / Hindemith - string quartets
Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio - Across The Imaginary Divide
Birds on Fire: Jewish music for viols
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Chopin - Etudes - Nikolai Lugansky
Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Taneyev - Lieder - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
earl sweatshirt - doris
Chopin - The complete preludes - Rafal Blechacz
ladysmith black zambazo - songs from zulu farm
Bach - Concertos - Julia Fischer
schumann - dichterliebe & other heine settings - gerald finley (baritone), julius drake (piano)
Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Chronicles: indian slide guitar odyssey
Johann Stamitz / Franz Xaver Richter - Early String Symphonies - New Dutch Academy ft simon murphy
Charles Mingus - The Impulse Story
Rossini - Overatures - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
fredrick koch - contrasts
Keith Jarret - Arbour Zena
Easley Blackwood - string quartets - pacifica quartet
Isaac Stern - 60th Anniversary Celebration
I don't know what this is
Beethoven - Cello Sonatas - Daniel muller schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (piano)
Bartok - Works for violin and piano - james ehnes (violin), andrew armstrong (piano)

[carol]

Wow, a great selection- you are very lucky. I would be in music heaven...listening to every one of them at least a few times, day after day...except the Cosby one!

[Grasshopper]

Wow, what a haul! Lots of great stuff in there if you like classical music!

I had a similar windfall once. I used to subscribe to Gramophone, a British classical music magazine, and they had a contest once where the prize was 50 of their "Gramophone's Choice" CDs. So I entered and forgot all about it (I never win anything). One day I came home from work and there was this big box on my porch -- containing the 50 CDs! So I guess I can no longer say that I never win anything!

[Mittens Deluxe]

(26-04-2016 01:54 PM)Grasshopper Wrote:  Wow, what a haul! Lots of great stuff in there if you like classical music!

I had a similar windfall once. I used to subscribe to Gramophone, a British classical music magazine, and they had a contest once where the prize was 50 of their "Gramophone's Choice" CDs. So I entered and forgot all about it (I never win anything). One day I came home from work and there was this big box on my porch -- containing the 50 CDs! So I guess I can no longer say that I never win anything!

that's awesome! lol