CD cover art designs

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MISHUGINA



Best CD evar

also stunning ones:






PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: MISHUGINA on June 20, 2007, 06:41:16 AM


Best CD evar

also stunning ones:







Haven't heard from YOU in a while, Welcome back !

hautbois

He is still on his high, or lag from the a few certain drugs called 'Boulezdol' and 'Mahlerdol'.  ::)

bhodges

Another one I love: Berio's Sinfonia with Chailly.

--Bruce

Grazioso

Quote from: Shrunk on June 15, 2007, 09:01:26 AM


Eric Dolphy "Out to Lunch"

Not classical, but still a classic.  I could have picked any of dozens of Reid Miles' designs for Blue Note.

Ditto. The Miles/Wolff partnership (with a few other photographers from time to time) created dozens of beautiful covers:



There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

not edward

Quote from: bhodges on June 20, 2007, 09:49:06 AM
Another one I love: Berio's Sinfonia with Chailly.

--Bruce
It's a good cover--but the music inside is even better!
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

bhodges

Quote from: edward on June 21, 2007, 02:11:55 PM
It's a good cover--but the music inside is even better!

Absolutely!  I think it's one of the best recordings, period, from Chailly's years with the orchestra.

--Bruce

Que

The French label Disques K617 has some beautiful cover art! :)

Some striking examples of the many.








Dancing Divertimentian

Such a rich air about these K617 covers!

Nice job.

Thanks for the peek and link, Q! :)








Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Que

Let's give this thread a bump.
Personally find it nicer than its brother, the "Worst looking CD/LP artwork"...

Another label with gorgeous covers is Alpha.
Some examples:











Q

Kullervo

The Arte Nova label has some great covers.








Wanderer


The new erato

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Ephemerid

Say what you will about the Moody Blues (yeah, I still like their old stuff), I love the cover of To Our Children's Children's Children:



Takemitsu's Quotation of Dream:



This Boards of Canada EP cover has always cracked me up:



Not the outside cover artwork, but some of the inside cover artwork to Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven double album:

Sarastro

One of  :D (click for larger resolution)

Sarastro

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