Same cover - different disc

[mc ukrneal]

Have you ever noticed how some covers seem to repeat for different performances? I've just realized that this cover is used at least three times. I wonder why.  Have I missed any? Which do you like best?

[Brian]

Yeah, I definitely notice this too!

This painting:



is another very frequent album cover hog, although I can't remember the other examples.

[Opus106]

Well, the Nielsen is obvious. I'm not familiar with Medtner's music.

Here's a famous recipe: Take any Caspar David Friedrich painting and put it on the cover of Romantic Austro-German music. PLENTY of repetition (original and mirror inversion).

There's a disc of Taneyev's string trios (Hyperion) which features the same painting as a BC disc featuring the music of another Russian's whose name starts with a T, if I remember correctly.

[Opus106]

Alfred Brendel discs. He almost invariably bears the expression on his face on every disc of his.

[Brian]

Here's a famous recipe: Take any Caspar David Friedrich painting and put it on the cover of Romantic Austro-German music. PLENTY of repetition (original and mirror inversion).

GREAT call.









Not to mention That painting.

[Opus106]

Not to mention That painting.

This one?

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[Brian]

This one?

Yes indeed!

[mc ukrneal]

GREAT call.









Not to mention That painting.

Cool! I never realized there were so many covers that were re-used like that. The first time I ever noticed a re-use was this:

[kishnevi]

There must be a special category: Gustav der Mahler and Gustav Mahler.  Especially, as Brian would put it, that painting.


Although I've seen his painting on CDs of other composers with links to Vienna from 1890 on.   And someone posted a Beethoven SQ CD in the WAYLT thread with one of his paintings--although I think the image was from his Beethoven Frieze, so perhaps we make an exemption there.

[mc ukrneal]

There must be a special category: Gustav der Mahler and Gustav Mahler.  Especially, as Brian would put it, that painting.


Although I've seen his painting on CDs of other composers with links to Vienna from 1890 on.   And someone posted a Beethoven SQ CD in the WAYLT thread with one of his paintings--although I think the image was from his Beethoven Frieze, so perhaps we make an exemption there.

Here's one...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

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[TheGSMoeller]

Isn't every single Paavo Jarvi cover the same?

[Brian]

Isn't every single Paavo Jarvi cover the same?

I don't know, but now that you mention it...

[TheGSMoeller]

I don't know, but now that you mention it...

Wow, must have run out of film. (Remember film? Old school camera joke)

Mine was more of a sarcastic comment on how every Jarvi disc seems to be ripped from a GQ ad. Didn't he used to be the lead singer of Right Said Fred?

[mc ukrneal]

Well, if we turn to people pictures, the Barenboim series on Warner has to be one of the worst. But it's rare they use identical photos unless it is a conductor who doesn't have many publicly available (e.g. Mravinsky).

[Conor71]

Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on January 10, 2013, 01:47:29 PM>!

Here it is again!  :

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Here it is again! 

Somebody's getting a nice commission!

[kishnevi]

Wow, must have run out of film. (Remember film? Old school camera joke)

Mine was more of a sarcastic comment on how every Jarvi disc seems to be ripped from a GQ ad. Didn't he used to be the lead singer of Right Said Fred?

But does Parvi give a credit to the designer whose clothes he wears?  (Gergiev does that, whether or not he appears on the CD cover.)  (There's at least one CD of Jarvi in which he doesn't appear on the cover--his recording of Mahler 2.)

Of course, some conductors seem to feel appearing on the CD cover is part of the contract.  Ivan Fischer, for example, and, less instrusively,  Chailly.  And of course, there's Karajan and Bernstein, although that seems to be more marketing by the record label than any aftereffect of conductorial ego. (Not that those two gentlemen were exactly lacking in the ego department.)

[snyprrr]

Just like there's 7 Plots, there is too 7 Album Cover Designs, 7 Movie Poster Designs... there is nothing new under the sun.

[Mirror Image]

Similar or just my eyes playing tricks on me?

Before with lots of suds:



After with less suds: