What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[marvinbrown]

Disc 3: Op. 18 nos. 3 and 5, Serioso

  Ah yes, I recently bought this box set after posting an inquiry for recommendations of Beethoven´s string quartets on the GMG board.  A fine set indeed  0:)!

  marvin

[Solitary Wanderer]

[George]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Snap Its Sunday morning music for me here George. Early Saturday evening music for you?

[beclemund]

A little while ago, M Forever posted a download of a '91 Asahina, All Japan Symphony Orchestra performance of Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie from an OOP Canyon Classics release. I am listening to that now... It is so good, I had to craft my own cover art for it as I could not find the original online.



The image is a crop from an 1853 painting by an H. Baumgartner (coming up blank on searches for more information on the artist) called View in the Bavarian Alps... I thought it appropriate for the symphonic hike through them.

[George]

Snap Its Sunday morning music for me here George. Early Saturday evening music for you?

Yep. 

[Maciek]

A little while ago, M Forever posted a download of a '91 Asahina, All Japan Symphony Orchestra performance of Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie from an OOP Canyon Classics release.

Apparently I missed that! Where is it?

[Lilas Pastia]

A little while ago, M Forever posted a download of a '91 Asahina, All Japan Symphony Orchestra performance of Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie from an OOP Canyon Classics release. I am listening to that now... It is so good, I had to craft my own cover art for it as I could not find the original online.



The image is a crop from an 1853 painting by an H. Baumgartner (coming up blank on searches for more information on the artist) called View in the Bavarian Alps... I thought it appropriate for the symphonic hike through them.

I did the same with another Alpensinfonie I took from an online source. Mine was this:


and this (back cover)

These are ca. 1900 views of Garmisch in the bavarian Alps. This is where Strauss sojourned for the last 30-40 years of his life, and where he composed the Alpensinfonie.

[Maciek]

I want to move there!

[beclemund]

Apparently I missed that! Where is it?

You'll find it in this Asahina thread here.

Very nice source images there, Lilas. That painting you used for the back cover is quite nice.

[Maciek]

Thanks!

[Lilas Pastia]

It's a beautiful place. Here's a pic I took 2 years ago (looking up at the Zugspitze)

[beclemund]

and this (back cover)

These are ca. 1900 views of Garmisch in the bavarian Alps. This is where Strauss sojourned for the last 30-40 years of his life, and where he composed the Alpensinfonie.

A quick edit and the cover could just as easily be this:

[George]

Some Schubert Sonatas from:

[Solitary Wanderer]

Ravel ~ La Valse



Bartok ~ Concerto for Orchestra



Debussey ~ La Mer


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Immolation Scene

[George]

[beclemund]

Another download (2005 live Boulez. Mahler 2nd) care of M Forever--which I have crafted another cover for... the things iTunes coverflow makes me do. 



Cover art from an Edwin Blashfield work, Choirboys.

[M forever]

Oh man, beclemund, that's a horrible, horrible cover pic...

How about using this:



Or maybe this (a little kitschy, too, but somehow also expressive, I think):

[Maciek]

Is that Lawrence of Arabia again?

(I mean the first one.)

[beclemund]

Oh man, beclemund, that's a horrible, horrible cover pic...

How about using this:

Hehehe. I did not mean to suggest my covers were good.

I really like that first image you posted. The second, not so much, and it would be hard to crop to a square image. The last Mahler 2nd cover I did was to replace a boring picture of Michael Gielen on Hänssler:



I guess I went more sacred with the Boulez one. The wife liked it, and she is usually a good judge, but maybe I will take it back to the drawing board.