There were still a few discs of music, mostly of a lighter variety. A four-disc set of Viennese waltzes, marches and polkas by assorted composers. Four sets of Gilbert and Sullivan, mostly with Sargent and Glyndebourne. The only recording I myself am singing on, a disc made by Corpus Christi College choir, Cambridge, in 1987, which I enjoyed more than I expected to on re-hearing, though I still think that Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia (which we also performed at the May Week post-concert drinks in Old Court) didn’t really come off. (The disc was described in a review at the time as ‘a recommendable release’, though I’m not sure it sold very many copies).
Then there was the purely humorous in the shape of the two Flanders and Swann recordings, which were quickly snaffled up by the children once transferred. And a novelty disc of mechanical instruments from the Paul Corin Collection (threatened at the time we bought the LP on holiday, but still in existence). The remaining recordings were outside the subject scope of this blog.