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The classicHAUL clearance bin

Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on April 2, 2026, 1:58 p.m.

I got an optical drive and enclosure with my tax refund so I have a working CD drive again and can go ham in the record store classical clearance section. For the low low price of $30 I picked up:

Bach - Partitas (Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord)
Bach - Easter Orarorio, Ascension Oratorio (Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn/Helmuth Rilling, soloists. I’ll have to bump this tomorrow. I’m reripping my CD collection and haven’t got to either of the Passions yet)
Bach - Magnificat, Cantata 80 (Ein feste Burg) (Herreweghe)
Bach - Cantatas 56, 4, 82 (Ich habe Genug) (Karl Richter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
Bach - Cantatas 80 (Ein feste Burg), 26, 116 (Edith Mathis, Trudelise Schmidt, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Richter)
Bach - Cantatas from Leipzig, vol. 10: BWV 105, 179, 186 (Masaaki Suzuki)
Bach - Cantatas and Arias (Ian Bostridge, tenor)
Bach - Organ Works, Vol. 1 (Simon Preston)
Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke - Cello Sonatas
Bruckner - Symphony No. 3
Bruckner - Symphony No. 5
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 (all Barenboim)
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (Karajan ‘75)
Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 (Katajan)
Corelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 6 No 1-6 (part one of a two disc set, but I only have selections so six is better than none)
Dufay - The Virgin and the Temple: Chants and Motets (Pomerium)
Gesualdo - Quinto libro dei madrigali
Haydn - Grosse Orgelmesse, Missa Sanctae Ceciliae, Nikolaimesse, Missa Brevis in F (Simon Preston)
Mozart - Clarinet and Horn Quintets, String Quintet K.516
Mozart - Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1
Mozart - Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Banchini)
Schubert - Schwanengesang, Brahms - Vier ernste Lieder (Thomas Quasthoff)
R Strauss - Don Quixote (Ashkenazy)
R Strauss - Sinfonia domestica, Macbeth (Maazel)
William Wallace - Creation Symphony, Pelléas et Mélisande suite, Prelude to The Eumenides (Martyn Brabbins)
Alfred Deller/various - La Renaissance Anglais**