Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[JBS]

Anyhow, over the years, poor RVW's craggy face hasn't been captured well....

The bottom was also used for the recordings of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies--or at least appears on the CD jackets of the new Decca Boult British Music set.  For the Seventh and Eighth this one was used. I submit that it's not really any better.

[vandermolen]

The bottom was also used for the recordings of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies--or at least appears on the CD jackets of the new Decca Boult British Music set.  For the Seventh and Eighth this one was used. I submit that it's not really any better.

Yes, I guess that they were the original covers. I wish they's used the nice Decca Eclipse landscape images instead, but I guess they are after authenticity. I'm looking forward to receiving the Decca boxed set at Christmas:

[vandermolen]

This is a famous old one straight from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian':

[Peter Power Pop]

I don't know about you, but whenever I think of the music of Vivaldi I tend not to think of this:

[SimonNZ]

Album recorded while waiting ten hours at a West Bank checkpoint.

[Madiel]

I don't know about you, but whenever I think of the music of Vivaldi I tend not to think of this:

Actually Handel but your point still stands. There's not a lot of reason to associate that bus with Baroque concerti.

[Peter Power Pop]

Actually Handel but your point still stands. There's not a lot of reason to associate that bus with Baroque concerti.

Aaargh! I didn't even notice that it was Handel. I saw Il Giardino Armonico and immediately assumed it was a Vivaldi disc. Oops.

[JBS]

Actually Handel but your point still stands. There's not a lot of reason to associate that bus with Baroque concerti.

Pun on baroque/broke (bus)?

[Peter Power Pop]

Pun on baroque/broke (bus)?

I think it's be more a case of "Hey, we're hip."

[KevinP]

Using Hovhaness' photo on the cover: dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well, he does look mad?

PD

[Madiel]

Well, he does look mad?

PD

He looks like gangrene.

[Peter Power Pop]

"By Dmitri Shostakovich"

Hehe.

[JBS]

While most of them don't really belong in topic, VAN Magazine's Twitter account has been doing a thread on Winterreise cover art.
There are, among other things, lots of birds..
Starts here
https://twitter.com/vanmusicmag/status/1603730172322238464

[Pohjolas Daughter]

While most of them don't really belong in topic, VAN Magazine's Twitter account has been doing a thread on Winterreise cover art.
There are, among other things, lots of birds..
Starts here
https://twitter.com/vanmusicmag/status/1603730172322238464

I could see the use of birds for the cover--particularly crows.  Looking through the lyrics:

"I bruised myself on every stone,
so did I hurry out of the town.
The crows threw snowballs and hailstones
onto my hat from every roof.

How otherwise did you welcome me,
you town of inconstancy!
At your bright windows sang
the lark vying with the nightingale."

And...."I dreamed of bright flowers
such as blossom in May;
I dreamed of green meadows
and the calling of birds."

And: "when the cocks crew,
my eyes opened;
it was cold and dark,
on the roof the ravens croaked."

I could see also images of fields and hillsides in May/spring too.

Also:  "A crow was with me
coming out of town.
Back and forth till now it
has flown above my head.

Crow, curious creature,
will you not forsake me?
Have you prey in mind here soon,
when you seize my body?

Well, there is not far to go
for my stick and me.
Crow, let me at last behold
fidelity to the grave!"

PD

[geralmar]

Disinterested looking firebird.

[Madiel]

Disinterested looking firebird.

Yeah, it's not very inspiring.

[Florestan]

Beethoven was not a flesh-and-blood, limited and flawed human being like all of us --- oh, no, he was a (demi-)God set in stone, an Achilles of music --- and don't even bother to begin thinking that you can compose anything worth his left toe...

No, really, it's bullshit big time!...

[Todd]

That's a pretty strong reaction to a tightly cropped photo of a tarnished statue.

[MN Dave]