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Sikora's Classical Records Ltd
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Music & DVDs Music & DVDs [Edit]
432 Hastings St WVancouver, BC V6B 1L1
Neighbourhood: Downtown
(604) 685-0625
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
5 reviews for Sikora's Classical Records Ltd
5 reviews in English
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Review from Brian P.
Vancouver, BC
11/22/2011
Sikora's has always been one of the best spots in the city to track down classical and jazz music recordings. With the upcoming closing of the HMV at Robson at Burrard, it will soon also be one of the last.
Fortunately this store boast an excellent, well-organized collection, and the intelligent, knowledgeable, and helpful staff are available to help track down or order anything you can't find in the store.
The staff are always open to conversation as well, and are always happy to make new recommendations based on the composers and artists you enjoy. Through these dialogues I have discovered recordings I would have never heard otherwise, and for which I am extremely grateful.
It is this last element that distinguishes the store most for me, and that we stand most to lose, as our brick and mortar stores with helpful staff, shift to online sites with suggestive algorithms. -
Review from Herman E.
12/8/2011
I was last in this store to browse for stuff that most of the other stores will not carry three weeks ago. They really do have quite a selection and the staff is quite knowledgeable.
A while back I was looking for Bach orchestral transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor with the BBC Philharmonic on the Chandos label.
They had it. I bought it.
This store is the last of its kind. I hope it survives. -
Review from Mark H.
1/26/2011
This is a classical-music dedicated CD and LP store, both used and new. The selection is large and deep, and the CDs especially are well-organized by composer, soloist, or instrument. The LPs aren't organized as categorically, but are still separated by composer alphabetically. One cool thing was that new-old-stock sealed LPs had their own section. I've never seen that before in a used LP shop and thought that was pretty swell.
Occasionally, some of the prices were eye-poppingly expensive to me (mostly on certain hard-to-find but still new CDs), but on the whole the pricing seemed fair, especially for the used stuff and for the LPs. I would love it if another place like this were in NYC. Looking forward to returning the next time I'm back in town! -
Review from Amary N.
2/2/2010
First of all, I'm not a classical music fan. Sure, it does sound impressive that I happen to received my music diploma from
Trinity College of London. That doesn't mean much if your heart and soul is not into classical music.
However, I have a few friends that are fans of classical music.
And I wanted to buy something for them. It has plentiful of selections. It places 2nd in terms of collections, next to Princeton.
I spent a lot time looking through the vinyl records. They have CDs, operas, DVDs, and books. Canadians don't need to go far to search for classical music. -
Review from Natalie M.
Vancouver, BC
8/23/2009
Amazing store. Best place to buy jazz and classical CDs and records in Vancouver, hands down. Staff is knowledgeable on every type of music and you could spend hours looking through great cds!!
