GMG Classical Music Forum

What about it folks?

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At max size (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81e5wykEuTL._SL2000_.jpg) (1652 x 1403).

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In classical music I just found the original cover for an album I have on CD.

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I wonder if anyone bought it expecting psychedelic trippiness like this?

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Each is groovy in it's own way, I enjoy them both.

Pretty evocative. Notice the tangled wool on the chair and ball on floor.

(https://i.imgur.com/REczcvf.jpg)

Merzbow's Pulse Demon:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Merzbow-pulsedemon.jpg)

Quote from: accmacmus on June 21, 2020, 02:09:38 AM
Merzbow's Pulse Demon:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Merzbow-pulsedemon.jpg)

Good choice , cult album era good old merzbow at reek of skronkness, than what about Masonna ''Inner Mind Mystique'', tuelly epic.

Quote from: accmacmus on June 21, 2020, 02:09:38 AM
Merzbow's Pulse Demon:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Merzbow-pulsedemon.jpg)

My avatar even has a headache from looking at that cover.

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 21, 2020, 12:47:57 PM
My avatar even has a headache from looking at that cover.

me too buddy  :) narly art one could says.

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1957

Quote from: geralmar on June 12, 2020, 07:32:03 AM
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That is a great cover indeed. Visually calm* and kinetic** at the same time! Text font is simple and functional, althou works well only for LP as some ot the text is too small for CD cover.

* Calm color scheme (green/blue, white and black) + shallow depth of field makes this happen.
** The composition where the bird struggles to fit into the cover square is a stroke of genius hinting the movement and difficulty to get the bird into the "shot."

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Quote from: pjme on December 26, 2020, 05:08:18 AM
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The Mahler is appropriately fantastic but I don't think much of the Schutz

That's OK. it isn't great art. But definitely well made...I grew up with that "style" - Polish art posters & Milton Glaser - and still love the craft: ink, pen, water colours, colour pencils.

Quote from: Irons on June 21, 2020, 12:31:49 AM
Pretty evocative. Notice the tangled wool on the chair and ball on floor.

(https://i.imgur.com/REczcvf.jpg)

Indeed, very evocative.

To me, gives me a mixed sensation of quiet serenity, solitude and disturbance.

Quote from: OrchestralNut on December 26, 2020, 06:24:26 AM
Indeed, very evocative.
To me, gives me a mixed sensation of quiet serenity, solitude and disturbance.

I looked up "Fall River legend" ... and was in for quite a surprise: Lizzie Borden!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
So, we'd rather expect bloody axes and hatchets in splitted skulls....on that LP cover. The shadow of the noose is puzzling, as is the wool on the rocking chair..... !

Quote from: pjme on December 26, 2020, 11:30:11 PM
I looked up "Fall River legend" ... and was in for quite a surprise: Lizzie Borden!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
So, we'd rather expect bloody axes and hatchets in splitted skulls....on that LP cover. The shadow of the noose is puzzling, as is the wool on the rocking chair..... !

I see what you mean. I can only think the noose and tangled wool are symbolic. The cover design is by George Maas, I cannot find any information on him.

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Quote from: geralmar on February 20, 2021, 02:55:51 PM
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Except too bad about the telephone pole.

I can hardly believe that this is the Alhambra or some building in Cordoba!! If so, it still looks like some dark and cold building on the Rhine or the Danube... Vampires come to mind and creepy donjons.
Where are the perfumed flowers, the palm trees, cypresses, marble fountains & decorations?.

Quote from: geralmar on March 13, 2021, 08:19:50 PM
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Sigh - again & yawn.
The photo is technically OK (soft porn-ish à la Française...)- but what is the connection with (almost historical) recordings of Ravel's music?
Bo Derek is 64 now and I doubt that horny teenagers want to by cds...

Quote from: pjme on March 14, 2021, 05:02:53 AM
The photo is technically OK (soft porn-ish à la Française...)- but what is the connection with (almost historical) recordings of Ravel's music?

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. ;)

A common mistake with black and white cover art is use of color to ruin the black and white aesthetics.
Why is RAVEL written light green?
Why not light gray? Label logos with color is another problem.

Quote from: pjme on March 14, 2021, 04:56:08 AM
I can hardly believe that this is the Alhambra or some building in Cordoba!! If so, it still looks like some dark and cold building on the Rhine or the Danube... Vampires come to mind and creepy donjons.
Where are the perfumed flowers, the palm trees, cypresses, marble fountains & decorations?.

It's the castle of Segovia, in Central Spain, so not totally irrelevant.

Quote from: geralmar on March 13, 2021, 08:19:50 PM
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???  ??? ???

Quote from: pjme on March 14, 2021, 04:56:08 AM
I can hardly believe that this is the Alhambra or some building in Cordoba!! If so, it still looks like some dark and cold building on the Rhine or the Danube... Vampires come to mind and creepy donjons.
Where are the perfumed flowers, the palm trees, cypresses, marble fountains & decorations?.

I think it would win a prize for 'worst photo of the Alhambra'.  Perhaps this is better though not much of a view of the gardens.

Quote from: Biffo on March 14, 2021, 05:47:14 AM
I think it would win a prize for 'worst photo of the Alhambra' (...)

That would be unfair then, since it is not the Alhambra ...  :)

Quote from: MusicTurner on March 14, 2021, 05:59:20 AM
That would be unfair then, since it is not the Alhambra ...  :)

Thanks, I missed a posting while searching for photos. I had assumed it was an unusual view.

Quote from: Biffo on March 14, 2021, 06:08:10 AM
Thanks, I missed a posting while searching for photos. I had assumed it was an unusual view.

Ok, fine. Made me wonder if I was on an unknown ignore list  :-\   ;D

Indeed, the Alcazar!

(https://cdn.britannica.com/s:1500x700,q:85/72/42272-004-D2D58FD0/combination-Alcazar-architecture-military-Segovia-Spain-Henry.jpg)

Quote from: steve ridgway on March 14, 2021, 05:08:01 AM
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. ;)

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Quote from: 71 dB on March 14, 2021, 05:12:24 AM
A common mistake with black and white cover art is use of color to ruin the black and white aesthetics.
Why is RAVEL written light green?
Why not light gray? Label logos with color is another problem.

An album or CD cover's commercial purpose is to attract consumer attention; there are all kinds of ways to do that, but a color variation in the title is among the recording industry's most basic tricks.

Geralmar I think you meant to post that in the worst thread not the best thread.

I was young in the 1970s, and discovered the great Milton Glazer:

(https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/1108762/01%20Milton%20Glaser-%20cover%20for%20The%20Baroque%20Inevitable.jpg)

(https://img.discogs.com/OTPxETVAc5abxWpQ-Ibuo3uLlfA=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5625080-1398299130-8045.jpeg.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/aa/53/df/aa53df3aaa850aae4a9dc3ac5d7e863d.jpg)

Those really stand out from most classical covers, great images. 8)

I especially like the Don Quixote cover.

Quote from: pjme on March 14, 2021, 05:02:53 AM
Sigh - again & yawn.
The photo is technically OK (soft porn-ish à la Française...)- but what is the connection with (almost historical) recordings of Ravel's music?
Bo Derek is 64 now and I doubt that horny teenagers want to by cds...

It's obviously targeting the over 70 horny male crowd.   :P

Gains some attention, at least ;D :

Quote from: MusicTurner on March 20, 2021, 12:58:31 PM
Gains some attention, at least ;D :

The original ZZTop!

Quote from: geralmar on March 13, 2021, 08:19:50 PM
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Love it!

Quote from: DavidW on March 20, 2021, 01:03:20 PM
The original ZZTop!

;D

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Quote from: MusicTurner on March 20, 2021, 12:58:31 PM
Gains some attention, at least ;D :

I can also see a "Segerstam Reads Karl Marx" CD coming!!!

Quote from: springrite on March 24, 2021, 05:03:58 PM
I can also see a "Segerstam Reads Karl Marx" CD coming!!!

Yeah, his very looks could even pretty much function as a financial asset, should he want to retire to a less busy life in the future  ... ;D .

Quote from: geralmar on March 22, 2021, 02:27:51 PM
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This is how to deal with the label logo color: You use it elsewhere for something important and relevant (SIBELIUS here). Texts are easy to read on the dark sky. Well done cover art.

I don't think Pierre Henry recorded an album based on cutting up a violin with a saw, but then I'm not familiar with all his output. :-\

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Quote from: steve ridgway on March 25, 2021, 10:27:07 AM
I don't think Pierre Henry recorded an album based on cutting up a violin with a saw, but then I'm not familiar with all his output. :-\

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Georgy Dorokhov's 'Concertino' (2010) is a work where the soloist destroys a violin with a saw, a drilling machine and a hammer, accompanied by shouting etc. But it's much later than this cover ...

Quote from: MusicTurner on March 25, 2021, 10:36:37 AM
Georgy Dorokhov's 'Concertino' (2010) is a work where the soloist destroys a violin with a saw, a drilling machine and a hammer, accompanied by shouting etc. But it's much later than this cover ...

I guess that works isn't performed often with a Stradivarius...  ;D

Quote from: 71 dB on March 25, 2021, 10:56:51 AM
I guess that works isn't performed often with a Stradivarius...  ;D

;D

Ooh, Nonesuch did a good one! 8)

(https://i.discogs.com/R-1187008-1613045048-3067.jpeg?bucket=discogs-images&fit=contain&format=auto&height=600&quality=90&width=600&signature=RxBgh/s9Qlxu787QKt7UoWJXb6vIjpiqwO5ZxvQMbQE%3D)(https://i.discogs.com/R-1187008-1613045061-6920.jpeg?bucket=discogs-images&fit=contain&format=auto&height=600&quality=90&width=600&signature=WQvK8rqn10YPjTPAsW4nG97QYnDze9b6jB1GEUi4EXg%3D)

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How about this 555 pages Book+ Box-set three CD's

LE ROYAUME OUBLIÉ  :P

One of the prettiest looking art-work sleeve, this is HESPERION XII so
this is predictable in term of quality and it sounds awesome too...

Fantastic lampshade but I wonder who'd have it in their bedroom. :-\

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Quote from: steve ridgway on April 06, 2021, 09:33:25 AM
Fantastic lampshade but I wonder who'd have it in their bedroom. :-\

(https://img.discogs.com/R9tqNaibIzJUeMtGPknXD-8jmtk=/fit-in/600x540/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4664813-1474079562-3278.jpeg.jpg)

...who'd have it in their bedroom: a desperate, clueless, uninspired designer with a headache...

These are pretty far out. 8)

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Part II. Vandermolen posted this disc at the MarcoPolo thread, and I like the art.

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 15, 2021, 07:29:46 AM
The cover art I like.

I do love Naïve covers! Bold, challenging and fun, even if they've little or no relation to the music they enclose (in point of fact, how many covers actually do, besides images of composer or performer/s?).   

John Martinez did some of my all-time favorite cover designs for the Clemens Krauss Ring des Niebelungen set.  His work is held by the Library of Congress, among other institutions.  Edit: oh, and the recordings are equally great!   8)

Come across this at a charity shop last week.

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 15, 2021, 07:32:05 AM
Part II. Vandermolen posted this disc at the MarcoPolo thread, and I like the art.

Me too DBK - It's my favourite of those Marco Polo NYM covers, although they are all good.

One of my favourite CD covers:

And a favourite LP cover:


(//)

I tend to like the old DG CDs that used paintings. There was some CD reissue series that is slipping my mind that used John Constable's paintings (one of my favorite painters) and those were quite nice. Maybe not the most original to use someone else's art, but a decent safe choice.

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Quote from: Irons on July 02, 2021, 07:42:06 AM
Come across this at a charity shop last week.

(https://i.imgur.com/8aFD9MF.jpg)

Very nice. Of all the Mahler album art the second from Klemperer is the one burned into my mind as "the" Mahler art that stands out in my mind, probably because I associate it so strongly with the second.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81NIIsLeYQL._SL1425_.jpg)

Quote from: vandermolen on July 02, 2021, 02:11:45 PM
Me too DBK - It's my favourite of those Marco Polo NYM covers, although they are all good.

One of my favourite CD covers:

And a favourite LP cover:


(//)

Yes the both look great, and the Ormandy cover looks sharp. How about the music of Shosty/Ormandy? The lush, silky sound of Ormandy/Philadelphia works very good for some music and it doesn't for some. Just curious.

Quote from: Stürmisch Bewegt on April 18, 2021, 01:18:14 PM
I do love Naïve covers! Bold, challenging and fun, even if they've little or no relation to the music they enclose (in point of fact, how many covers actually do, besides images of composer or performer/s?).

I apologize my late response. I fully agree with you. I love Naive covers. They are fashionable, cute, and very different from the covers of other labels. I think Capriccio covers are nearly or exactly the worst.

Quote from: Irons on July 02, 2021, 07:42:06 AM
Come across this at a charity shop last week.

(https://i.imgur.com/8aFD9MF.jpg)

Very nice!

Reminded of this cover on the vinyl thread.

(https://i.imgur.com/QtDIvKy.jpg)

Looking up the artist Henri Rousseau I discover a second LP on my shelves features his work.

(https://i.imgur.com/NOvLUzR.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/J79ZnHbz/169-COVER.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/C1ndTJrH/ws-344-cover-sito.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Speaking of Rousseau, there's also this very fine recording, but with a somewhat ~selective approach to his painting, to suit that De Falla programme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_in_a_Tropical_Storm

(https://coverartarchive.org/release-group/b4db56c0-01dc-4e8b-9d6f-9bd0024967cf/front)

Cross-posted from the WAYLT thread some time back:

Quote from: VonStupp on January 16, 2022, 08:59:56 AM
PI Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, op. 58
Philharmonia Orchestra - Riccardo Muti (rec. 1981)

Quote from: VonStupp on January 16, 2022, 10:00:40 AM
I also really like the artwork on this one. Something about the glowing pool of water in the bottom right against the browns of the left and the greys of the top half. The man and his dog seem minuscule against the towering height and beauty of the surrounding nature scene, but provide some movement to the landscape. The perspective of near to far ground is wonderful, and I would love to wander this myself.

VS

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1960?

Remarkable cover given this was on a cheap label intended for impulse purchase and usually found in a revolving metal corner rack in dime stores and super markets and the like-- never in actual record stores.  The conductor and orchestra are pseudonyms.  Reasonable guess is the conductor is Hans Jurgens-Walther and a Hamburg orchestra.

(https://i.postimg.cc/yxM4PNH5/R-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

I took this photo on a morning run at our lake house, reminds me of the art from the Fou Ts'ong album of him playing Chopin's Fantaisie in F minor; a colorful work that evokes memories of the early spring. 

(https://i.imgur.com/WU3wCem.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Q4USNhu.jpg)

Cross-posted from the WAYLTN thread:

Incidentally, I love the arrangement of the rock outcropping, the grazing sheep, the workers, and the town in the distance, set off from the trees and the mountains within this landscape cover art.

Like the Muti recording above, anywhere I would love to amble for a constitutional myself works for me.

VS

(https://i.discogs.com/0x58ssH43mPVAlnIRV6U4V05pQnkng8xV_MGKZFK-Gk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:586/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDQ0/MjAwLTE2MDI0MzU1/MTEtNTI2NC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Quote from: VonStupp on April 24, 2022, 04:46:20 AM
Cross-posted from the WAYLTN thread:

Incidentally, I love the arrangement of the rock outcropping, the grazing sheep, the workers, and the town in the distance, set off from the trees and the mountains within this landscape cover art.

Like the Muti recording above, anywhere I would love to amble for a constitutional myself works for me.

VS

(https://i.discogs.com/0x58ssH43mPVAlnIRV6U4V05pQnkng8xV_MGKZFK-Gk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:586/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDQ0/MjAwLTE2MDI0MzU1/MTEtNTI2NC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Very attractive!

I bet someone on here has a listening room like this. 8)

(https://i.discogs.com/K_Dp8QvY083QuA8_NUPi6YUettdzUgJ49CPK9LlyRQg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3NjI5/NTUtMTQxNTQxMDE0/Ny01MDk3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/XYd78qsf/R-4288042-1605825845-1718-jpeg.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
1960/1954

GRIEF - Come to Grief- 1994 releasd very good stuff. Bluesy sludge doom,slow like a snail of burgundy in pace, to mid pace, the sleeve if someone can help me post it is hallucinating good quite frankly I remenber back in 1994 buying the tape for fews bucks  yep [asin]Grief - Come to grief cd[/asin]

Found it on Discogs and it is rather pretty. 8)

(https://i.discogs.com/yvIlT9ThnChhnDddhnK-JtpgVwXSTqAdrt2BzDGSiYU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0MDI3/MjUtMTM3Nzc5Mzcy/Ni01MzcwLmpwZWc.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/G0xlqtv.jpg)

Not particularly original; but I've always liked this cover:

(https://i.postimg.cc/qBZKLJcv/59887bfd45b14530baf9277fa0b4a62a.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)


This one not as much:

(https://i.postimg.cc/Dz8mjDr3/dv09-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Rhapsody in Blue gets a lot of cover images featuring the Manhattan skyline, but I see only two using bridges
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51eI9hPEw5L._SY780_.jpg)
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61XdioaXs9L._SY780_.jpg)

On a completely different topic, here's the cover of Lieberson's King Gesar, based on a legendary Tibetan hero whose life is the focus of what is supposedly the world's longest epic poem.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Zt1MdXftL._SY780_.jpg)

[It's part of the Sony Peter Serkin Complete Recordings box.]

Two more appealing "New World" skylines:

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvhCfKx3/R-6.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)


(https://i.postimg.cc/KYNQf1DH/R-7.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Another skyline and one a bit different.

(https://i.imgur.com/qJVbAsw.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/1VZj2UQ.jpg)

One attractive New World that avoids cliche:

(https://i.postimg.cc/zfs01Jgk/s-l1600-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://poemsonly.com/poem/1208)

Quote from: Irons on July 02, 2022, 02:56:48 AM
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This is the best hands down.

But wouldn't late 19th century transatlantic lines mostly have steamships ;)
I know that there were sailing ships going from Europe to Chile for guano as late as the 1930s or even later but I think the migrant or tourists between Europe and the US in the 1890s would go by steamships.

Quote from: Jo498 on July 03, 2022, 10:14:29 AM
But wouldn't late 19th century transatlantic lines mostly have steamships ;)

To me it evokes the original concept of "New World", the Columbus one.   ;)

Quote from: Florestan on July 03, 2022, 10:17:32 AM
To me it evokes the original concept of "New World", the Columbus one.   ;)

Good point.

(https://i.imgur.com/7adUAlr.jpg)

White Night by Edvard Munch, 1901.

Quote from: geralmar on July 08, 2022, 04:23:27 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/MKwDRZCB/OIP.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

That is a fantastic cover.

Quote from: geralmar on July 28, 2022, 10:14:33 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/SQdbcN9B/R-12.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

I own the CD and for the longest time I thought it was an onion on a stick.

Or a pendulum.

I'm currently captivated by this cover:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81H7-0YjSNL._AC_SL1200_.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/k4hDF99H/s-l1600-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
1955

(https://i.postimg.cc/3Jpr5bHd/R-22.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

My very favorite, hands down:

(https://rachelbartonpine.com/rbpmain/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Violin-Lullabies-cover.jpg)

Besides fitting the content of the disc to a T, it makes a strong statement. Kudos to whomever designed it.

EDIT: Great music, too!

(https://i.postimg.cc/Kzv4m7DC/R-9421540-1480273219-9060.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Monophonic



I never liked how the "STEREO" banner plastered at the top of so many L.P. albums obscured the artwork:

(https://i.postimg.cc/WzV7SHGx/R-10856342-1506006568-4481.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/441nFxpm/R-7268404-1633302014-5666.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Monophonic



Mercury dealt with the issue by simply shoving the image down, losing detail at the bottom:

(https://i.postimg.cc/sghfYjc6/R-8745022-1478978664-7874.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)



.

(https://i.postimg.cc/dtgZcZJJ/R-4811843-1376274067-2534.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
1964

This album cover fascinated me when I was young, wondering how the photographic effects were obtained.  No computer animation back then.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T1/images/I/71urj6RdCtL._SX425_.jpg)

Quote from: Operafreak on December 14, 2022, 06:25:53 AM(https://i.postimg.cc/PJRGCLM8/Schubert-Winterreise-Jon-Vickers.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Love the art on this cover! I think I have seen it used a couple of times on recordings.

I am an absolute neophyte of visual art, but I love the foreground/background images with the tree and cross offset to the right, contrasted with the angular snowy ground and rocks.

VS

The absolutely superb cover art by Hans Wild for Solti's legendary Der Ring des Nibelungen recording:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41swayojQlL._AC_UL600_SR600,600_.jpg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41gjX1JxzhL._AC_SX355_.jpg)

(https://i.discogs.com/xCGItDMMmbLuuzwGvkEV1_VRpWxPb2Q02GOw_iHRDeM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNDQx/MDEzLTE1MzUzNjYy/MDctOTU1NC5qcGVn.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/2E_W9zzF4v_QSg_5VvJaWlH52hLIT04SGJYsJdj_zf4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:501/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMDA4/NDItMTMxNTc2NDcy/OS5qcGVn.jpeg)

Solti's recordings of other Wagner operas also have magnificent cover art (Parsifal's, for example) but I'm not sure if they were made by Hans Wild too. I assume not because he died in -69 and some of those opera recordings were made way later (unless they were not originally meant for those recordings or something like that).

These cover arts from Dacapo featuring Langgaard's works for violin and piano look quite eye-catching to me:

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.226132.jpg)(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.226131.jpg)(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.226130.jpg)

Their covers for his string quartets, too.

The full set
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51X1SL3qPLL._SY780_DpWeblab_.jpg)

The three original individual CDs
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510VTVtG6RL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618ha8T6aRL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61HOMaRflKL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/BIS-2443.jpg)

Quote from: JBS on January 03, 2023, 07:19:57 PMTheir covers for his string quartets, too.

The full set
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51X1SL3qPLL._SY780_DpWeblab_.jpg)

The three original individual CDs
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510VTVtG6RL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618ha8T6aRL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61HOMaRflKL._AC_SX296_SY426_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)

Some of these look more abstract yet rather attractive as well.

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on January 04, 2023, 12:49:11 PM(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/BIS-2443.jpg)

That cover would strongly tempt me to purchase. Which of course is the object of the exercise.

BTW any good?

Quote from: Irons on January 04, 2023, 11:28:32 PMThat cover would strongly tempt me to purchase. Which of course is the object of the exercise.

BTW any good?

It's very good.

Quote from: Irons on January 04, 2023, 11:28:32 PMThat cover would strongly tempt me to purchase. Which of course is the object of the exercise.

BTW any good?

I found the recording of the Viola Concerto here:


Back to shifting around a chunk of my CD collection...running out of room!  Am doing a tiny bit of culling while at it.  I did (sadly) cull some of my cookbook collection and moved some of my cooking magazines to make more room for it already.  :(  The mixed-blessing of having "stuff"!

PD

Quote from: Irons on January 04, 2023, 11:28:32 PMThat cover would strongly tempt me to purchase. Which of course is the object of the exercise.

BTW any good?

If you're into reflective, pensive, wistful stuff, then you could enjoy it.

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on January 05, 2023, 08:02:29 AMI found the recording of the Viola Concerto here:

Back to shifting around a chunk of my CD collection...running out of room!  Am doing a tiny bit of culling while at it.  I did (sadly) cull some of my cookbook collection and moved some of my cooking magazines to make more room for it already.  :(  The mixed-blessing of having "stuff"!

PD

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on January 05, 2023, 10:31:12 AMIf you're into reflective, pensive, wistful stuff, then you could enjoy it.

Yes, listened to the work on YT yesterday which is beyond interesting.

(https://i.discogs.com/x2-5vaso79rcctzEdM-7qfsYjBaZ679qxUsx8eptmGY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzMjg2/NjgwLTE2NTMwMTAz/MTYtMTY4Mi5qcGVn.jpeg)

Not terribly relevant to Bach, but I like what I like...  ;D

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qfrarVD-L._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41JyWqektRL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

Not sure if 'best looking,' but certainly a well-executed, very cool concept.

(https://i.discogs.com/B96njkA_fqx_FIbU8qChAZDSgaVYX6d5c9t01vvRqIo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MzM0/MjAtMTYyMDcwNzkz/Mi02ODI5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Vivaldi discs from Naive.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/517zEJ8eQHL._SY440_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81TRZISArGL._SX466_.jpg)


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71eemEub7oL._SX522_.jpg)

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 21, 2023, 07:17:43 PM(https://i.discogs.com/B96njkA_fqx_FIbU8qChAZDSgaVYX6d5c9t01vvRqIo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MzM0/MjAtMTYyMDcwNzkz/Mi02ODI5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Love this!

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/00028942763920.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61YQhFCGMcL._SY1000_.jpg)(https://i.discogs.com/48N5p94Hi7rp68v4SF0bKQ5Gh0JCqIOXO9yuubxcRbM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg1MTcx/MTktMTU2NzEwNDkw/MS0zNjEzLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on January 25, 2023, 06:07:37 PM(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/00028942763920.jpg)

Overall, I agree it's nice (the other two as well), but the placement of that bike...

Quote from: KevinP on January 26, 2023, 03:26:27 PMOverall, I agree it's nice (the other two as well), but the placement of that bike...

 ;D

Quote from: KevinP on January 26, 2023, 03:26:27 PMOverall, I agree it's nice (the other two as well), but the placement of that bike...

Yes I like the work, and others, by Fernand Leger.

Not someone I'm familiar with actually, but a quick search shows much worth exploring.

Quote from: KevinP on January 28, 2023, 11:52:25 PMNot someone I'm familiar with actually, but a quick search shows much worth exploring.

This might be of interest to you, then.

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,25936.msg1433482.html#msg1433482

Regards,

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DhSYbjiML._SX466_.jpg)

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 30, 2023, 09:34:13 AM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DhSYbjiML._SX466_.jpg)

Striking cover. SXL 6111 is too.

(https://i.imgur.com/uQvlJw9.jpg)

(https://bis.se/shop/17115/art15/h6141/5096141-origpic-c1eeff.jpg)

Quote from: Irons on February 01, 2023, 11:49:34 PMThe last word.

(https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=96027;image)

I like the cover art (and music).

Quote from: aligreto on February 05, 2023, 05:21:25 AMSchoenberg: Verklärte Nacht [Prometheus Ensemble]


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yWciRXR3L._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)


I find this to be a terrific presentation and arrangement. It is very intimate and emotion laden. It is also wonderfully conversational in nature. There is also great tension to be felt throughout.

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/DE1009.jpg)

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 04, 2023, 10:35:16 AM(https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=96027;image)

the (very unknown ...) painter is Roger Chapelain-Midy (1904-1992)
Title of the painting : Symphonie d'été
It is at La Piscine, musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent in Roubaix.

La piscine Roubaix (https://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/en/home/)

Roger Chapelain-Midy (https://wallector.com/en/artists/roger-chapelain-midy.html)

Quote from: pjme on February 06, 2023, 04:51:50 AMthe (very unknown ...) painter is Roger Chapelain-Midy (1904-1992)
Title of the painting : Symphonie d'été
It is at La Piscine, musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent in Roubaix.

La piscine Roubaix (https://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/en/home/)

Roger Chapelain-Midy (https://wallector.com/en/artists/roger-chapelain-midy.html)

Wonderful! I couldn't find the work on Google.

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODExMjY1MC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NDk3NDA1ODF9)

I think Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra could have a "Best Looking" thread all of it's own. There are so many!

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2023, 09:14:32 AM(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODExMjY1MC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NDk3NDA1ODF9)

Nice cover for an excellent recording.

Quote from: Irons on February 08, 2023, 07:04:50 AMI think Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra could have a "Best Looking" thread all of it's own. There are so many!

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91cJjaSR9eL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

CPO has a very high batting average in cover art.

This particular work is by Józef Czapski: Lsniaca chmura [Shining Cloud, from 1981.

Never mind the artwork, a great recording.

Quote from: Irons on February 08, 2023, 07:04:50 AMI think Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra could have a "Best Looking" thread all of it's own. There are so many!

I must agree!
The last one is not Concerto for Orchestra.


(https://i.discogs.com/Y5E-7z0Gxt3TwPNadRDkRj04i-jE7qs9pRpVKzq7_pY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMDEx/OTQtMTU4MTgzMDI1/MS00MjUxLmpwZWc.jpeg)


(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0584/1747/9854/products/R-5130456-1393775460-8900_jpeg_540x.jpg?v=1635620799)

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 10, 2023, 08:08:40 AMI must agree!
The last one is not Concerto for Orchestra.


(https://i.discogs.com/Y5E-7z0Gxt3TwPNadRDkRj04i-jE7qs9pRpVKzq7_pY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMDEx/OTQtMTU4MTgzMDI1/MS00MjUxLmpwZWc.jpeg)


(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0584/1747/9854/products/R-5130456-1393775460-8900_jpeg_540x.jpg?v=1635620799)

(https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/y2005/m04/d23/h16/s05.xlrrrxku.jpg/600x600bb.webp)

The Dorati cover doesn't do much for me; however, I really like the Naxos and think it's hurt by the Naxos design, i.e., occupying less than half of a CD cover. If I had that painting as a full-sized LP cover, I might hang it on my wall.

(Not sure it actually says, 'Bartok' to me, but that's another matter.)


Anybody know the painter?

Quote from: KevinP on February 11, 2023, 02:37:05 PMThe Dorati cover doesn't do much for me; however, I really like the Naxos and think it's hurt by the Naxos design, i.e., occupying less than half of a CD cover. If I had that painting as a full-sized LP cover, I might hang it on my wall.

(Not sure it actually says, 'Bartok' to me, but that's another matter.)


Anybody know the painter?

Agree about the Naxos Mandarin. The painting is in fact about the Miraculous Mandarin specifically. Didn't know and can't believe it.
As for the Dorati, by the standard of extant classical recordings in the market, I think the cover is hip.


https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sketch-for-il-mandarino-meraviglioso-by-b-bartok-enrico-prampolini-1894-1956/_gGCdQGdxBFW3A

P.s. I don't like covers with a tilted original art either.


(https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music114/v4/82/f4/34/82f434fe-afc2-8169-c44e-9502cd0fb416/00028947586906.rgb.jpg/632x632bf.webp)

Supraphon LP covers can be unusual and interesting.

(https://i.discogs.com/p9LtJXwuS5-riR8myLhU6WtF-AJjvQez2f5EcR8PWiU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:578/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NjE0/NzMwLTE1NzgyMjM3/MDEtNTE4NC5wbmc.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/RcrjA_99PK84t08XyrW3x1i-p5ayI18Y_-JHRDBHtOA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3MjE2/OTctMTQwMDg5ODIy/OC02MDU5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Quote from: KevinP on February 11, 2023, 02:37:05 PMAnybody know the painter?

Not sure which cover you are referring to.

The Point classics cd surely has a work by Kandinsky : Murnau street with women (1908).
The Naxos cd has a scenery design by  Enrico Prampolini / La Scala 1942 Fondo A. Milloss Fotografie M058
Il Mandarino Meraviglioso

(https://kdhx.org/images/articles/finearts/classical/miraculous-mandarin-la-scala-1942.jpg)
More photos at
https://archivi.cini.it/teatromelodramma/search/result.html?personeHist_autocomplete=%22Prampolini%2C+Enrico%22&archiveName_string=teatromelodrammaxDamsHist003

The Mercury / Dorati disc I find ..uninteresting...

The old Rabaud/Marouf discs (ca 1976) are charming - inspired by Beardsley or Erté?

Quote from: pjme on February 13, 2023, 02:56:26 AM...
The Naxos cd has a scenery design by  Enrico Prampolini / La Scala 1942 Fondo A. Milloss Fotografie M058
Il Mandarino Meraviglioso

(https://kdhx.org/images/articles/finearts/classical/miraculous-mandarin-la-scala-1942.jpg)
More photos at
https://archivi.cini.it/teatromelodramma/search/result.html?personeHist_autocomplete=%22Prampolini%2C+Enrico%22&archiveName_string=teatromelodrammaxDamsHist003

...

Very interesting, Peter! I hadn't encountered the name of Prampolini until now.

Quote from: ritter on February 13, 2023, 11:22:34 AMI hadn't encountered the name of Prampolini until now.

Well, neither had I.
But I enjoy doing some research . I did not know that that performance in Milan was the first staged one.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Portrait_of_Enrico_Prampolini_-_1927_-_Nakayama_Iwata.png/800px-Portrait_of_Enrico_Prampolini_-_1927_-_Nakayama_Iwata.png)


He's really a most interesting figure:

Prampolini and futurism (https://msl.org.pl/enrico-prampolini--futurism-stage-design-and-the-polish-avant-garde-theatre/)

Prampolini + Guggenheim (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/enrico-prampolini)

Prampolini and pantomime (https://karltoepfer.com/2019/07/01/pantomime-in-the-1920s-futurist-pantomime/)

Mandarino meraviglioso 1942 (https://www.academia.edu/40031226/Modernist_Art_during_the_Catastrophe_The_Italian_Premiere_of_Bart%C3%B3ks_Ballet_The_Miraculous_Mandarin_in_1942_by_Niccol%C3%B2_Palazzetti)

Quote from: pjme on February 15, 2023, 04:36:30 AM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Portrait_of_Enrico_Prampolini_-_1927_-_Nakayama_Iwata.png/800px-Portrait_of_Enrico_Prampolini_-_1927_-_Nakayama_Iwata.png)


He's really a most interesting figure:

Indeed. What I've seen of Prampolini looks very appealing. His star seems to have faded because (as so many of his contemporaries) he apparently flirted with fascism. But to see The Miraculous Mandarin fully staged at La Scala in 1942, with such "daring" decors, confirms that artistic conditions must have been rather different in Italy at the time compared to Nazi Germany.

Other names that come to mind as interesting Italian set designers of those years are Alberto Savino (Giorgio de Chirico's brother) and, to a lesser extent, Gianni Vagnetti.

 
I will read with interest those links you provided, Peter. Thanks!

I always liked this cover.

(https://i.discogs.com/WOxdNnuo2ld5kcMlWO7e0GYflU7RteYXIBD3AODY79o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNjUw/MTkyLTE1MzkzNDc5/MTItMjE1OC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Dare I say that I'm underwhelmed by this attempt at artistic multi tasking...
Surely, it wasn't an easy command to combine Petrushka with Le sacre....but for my taste too much is going on.

(https://imusic.b-cdn.net/images/item/original/802/4547366272802.jpg?pierre-boulez-2016-stravinsky-le-sacre-du-printemps-petrouchka-cd&class=original)
Guy Billout (thought it was Milton Glaser...)

(https://i0.wp.com/www.lpgram.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/3561302581026.jpg?fit=640%2C558&ssl=1)

Jacques Emile Blanche

Petrushka often fares better...imho

(https://media.s-bol.com/mZRYJg91GAN9/550x539.jpg)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cmw6pkH0f84/VIBq4iAO1EI/AAAAAAAAI38/7tgBjUmx4kY/s1600/h2065_fr.jpg)

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I think Bartok Piano Concertos have some nice covers as well.
I like the 2nd cover. I remember some members (maybe Iron) wrote that the last recording from Vox/Turnabout is a fine recording.


(https://ia802201.us.archive.org/16/items/lp_rhapsody-for-piano-and-orchestra-op-1-con_bla-bartk-andor-foldes-lamoureux-orchestre/lp_rhapsody-for-piano-and-orchestra-op-1-con_bla-bartk-andor-foldes-lamoureux-orchestre_itemimage.png)


(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/1c30823b4fecfb816ee1395023fcee25/7260111/orchestra-of-radio-luxembourg-pro-musica-orchestra-alois-springer-michael-gielen-ulrich-koch-gyorgy-sandor-the-last-two-works-viola-concerto-piano-concerto-no-3-Cover-Art.jpg)


(https://i.discogs.com/V3CSm2SeZ_oLgtQttfSO5z2hHF5cPfXs8FNkId1c4Aw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNjY1/NDctMTMxODc3OTU3/OS5qcGVn.jpeg)


(https://www.recordsmerchant.com/lps/tv34036sf.jpg)


(https://inv.vinyltap.co.uk/media/7057797914854131.jpg)

That Turnabout Janacek/Honegger/Stravinsky/Bartok has fascinated me since my youth. A mixed bag that worked very well for me. The performances lack now in sonic splendour, I suppose, but the LP proved a good introduction and guide.
Moreover the  Picasso painting ( Famille de saltimbanques) was another discovery.

Brueghel-Beethoven ... why not?
Buniatishvili has the looks of a model, but I simply don't like covers that give more attention to the performer than the composer....

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 16, 2023, 06:40:25 PMI think Bartok Piano Concertos have some nice covers as well.
I like the 2nd cover. I remember some members (maybe Iron) wrote that the last recording from Vox/Turnabout is a fine recording.


(https://ia802201.us.archive.org/16/items/lp_rhapsody-for-piano-and-orchestra-op-1-con_bla-bartk-andor-foldes-lamoureux-orchestre/lp_rhapsody-for-piano-and-orchestra-op-1-con_bla-bartk-andor-foldes-lamoureux-orchestre_itemimage.png)


(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/1c30823b4fecfb816ee1395023fcee25/7260111/orchestra-of-radio-luxembourg-pro-musica-orchestra-alois-springer-michael-gielen-ulrich-koch-gyorgy-sandor-the-last-two-works-viola-concerto-piano-concerto-no-3-Cover-Art.jpg)


(https://i.discogs.com/V3CSm2SeZ_oLgtQttfSO5z2hHF5cPfXs8FNkId1c4Aw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNjY1/NDctMTMxODc3OTU3/OS5qcGVn.jpeg)


(https://www.recordsmerchant.com/lps/tv34036sf.jpg)


(https://inv.vinyltap.co.uk/media/7057797914854131.jpg)

I love the one with the lion in it; trying to remember where I've seen that cover before?  Perhaps someone mentioned it in the vinyl thread some years ago?

PD

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on February 17, 2023, 07:26:04 AMI love the one with the lion in it; trying to remember where I've seen that cover before?  Perhaps someone mentioned it in the vinyl thread some years ago?

PD

Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau.

Quote from: pjme on February 17, 2023, 02:48:24 AMThat Turnabout Janacek/Honegger/Stravinsky/Bartok has fascinated me since my youth. A mixed bag that worked very well for me. The performances lack now in sonic splendour, I suppose, but the LP proved a good introduction and guide.
Moreover the  Picasso painting ( Famille de saltimbanques) was another discovery.

Brueghel-Beethoven ... why not?
Buniatishvili has the looks of a model, but I simply don't like covers that give more attention to the performer than the composer....

Yes these Vox/Turnabout recordings are decent recordings. Some Vox recordings are vg, I think.

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Mz3RexVhInijC9vR_5E9UgHaHb?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)

 :)

Quote from: SimonNZ on February 17, 2023, 03:04:04 PM(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Mz3RexVhInijC9vR_5E9UgHaHb?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)

 :)

Is this like a Zen master's question?  ;D

No explanation; but I really like this cover:

(https://i.postimg.cc/wBmLKdq5/81-GZdb-R8q2-L-UF894-1000-QL80-FMwebp.webp) (https://postimages.org/)


While equally disliking the pose on the back:

(https://i.postimg.cc/DwWbsKXV/81bhs-Aph5-OS-UF894-1000-QL80-FMwebp.webp) (https://postimages.org/)

Quote from: geralmar on February 17, 2023, 07:23:52 PMNo explanation; but I really like this cover:

(https://i.postimg.cc/wBmLKdq5/81-GZdb-R8q2-L-UF894-1000-QL80-FMwebp.webp) (https://postimages.org/)


While equally disliking the pose on the back:

(https://i.postimg.cc/DwWbsKXV/81bhs-Aph5-OS-UF894-1000-QL80-FMwebp.webp) (https://postimages.org/)

Heartily agreed on both counts.

Anyway, great music.

Quote from: geralmar on February 17, 2023, 07:23:52 PMNo explanation; but I really like this cover:

(https://i.postimg.cc/wBmLKdq5/81-GZdb-R8q2-L-UF894-1000-QL80-FMwebp.webp) (https://postimages.org/)

If I look directly at it, she's clearly holding her bow in her left hand.

But if I look elsewhere in the photo, my brain interprets it as a dog leash.

Quote from: KevinP on February 18, 2023, 04:46:41 PMIf I look directly at it, she's clearly holding her bow in her left hand.

But if I look elsewhere in the photo, my brain interprets it as a dog leash.

My brain worries she will drop the no doubt expensive violin.

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on February 17, 2023, 07:26:04 AMI love the one with the lion in it; trying to remember where I've seen that cover before?  Perhaps someone mentioned it in the vinyl thread some years ago?

PD

Page 4 of this thread.  ;D

Quote from: Florestan on February 18, 2023, 06:49:48 AMHeartily agreed on both counts.

Anyway, great music.

Lovely music, yes, but - dare I say it - a rather banal cover. I find it very "posé", unnatural, stiff. A still from an (oldfashioned...) fashion magazine... :o

Ensemble Giardino di delizie has more and imho- better photographs - on its website
Giardino di delizie (http://giardinodidelizie.com/)

Enough. I dont' want to nitpick. Enjoy the music.

Quote from: Irons on February 19, 2023, 01:51:41 AMMy brain worries she will drop the no doubt expensive violin.

Yes that picture makes me nervous!  Nothing like perching a priceless, irreplaceable baroque violin on a ledge surrounded by hard concrete and rocks just for a photo that most listeners would only look at once (especially if streaming).

Quote from: DavidW on February 19, 2023, 08:09:05 AMhard concrete and rocks

But...that is the Fontana di Trevi!

Quote from: pjme on February 19, 2023, 10:20:49 AMBut...that is the Fontana di Trevi!

I'm sure dropping the violin into the fountain wouldn't be much of an improvement either!

Quote from: Irons on February 19, 2023, 01:54:38 AMPage 4 of this thread.  ;D

;D Lucky you!

PD

Turnabout had a cover style all of their own.

(https://i.imgur.com/Gf1KVXX.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/sSKy3Gn.jpg)

Odd placement of the cellist.

Agreed! Some excellent graphics + one Mahler/Horenstein/Nonesuch

(https://i.discogs.com/p2Gfd6KrFr2RX_1xq4Mm3avFij1QVOhC_9qjZnNbPp4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwMzcz/NjktMTM1MzE2MzYx/Mi01OTcwLmpwZWc.jpeg)

(https://images.991.com/large_image/Alfred+Brendel+Brendel+Plays+Beethoven-764514.jpg)

(https://i.discogs.com/Tg48mOKu-oi9MtVPN3EWDk9jPviQdtL-zLDXh1GESUk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxMDk1/MzYtMTQ3NDkyOTM5/NS0yMDMxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

^ I like all of them. Very nice.

(https://i.discogs.com/ZZQ3IXE2gq1g2GpDFSDI6S3w7flx-qkIk_yhhWr4gsY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODQ3/OTkwLTE1MjM2NDYy/MDAtOTEyNC5qcGVn.jpeg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51826s0epTL._SX425_.jpg)

I had this when it was new and always liked the cover. I can understand the bad press it got, but you just have to think of it as a Weather Report solo project rather than the kind of albums Wayne Shorter released in the 60s.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71VLzg+snxL._SL1500_.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/zr68D5h.jpg)

The Giltburg/Petrenko LvB PC 3 & 4 CD I ordered last week landed today and I discovered it (and it seems, the other two CDs in the seried) uses a different cover image than the standard soloist-and-conductor-together image used for the listings at Amazon, Presto, etc.

The image on my copy is a mountain landscape photo attributed to Giltburg himself.
I don't see it on the web now, but I did find this one for PCs 1 & 2.
(https://www.recordshopx.com/cover/normal/6/65/653885.jpg?cd)

(https://img.hmv.co.jp/image/jacket/800/0000137/1/8/541.jpg)

Quote from: absolutelybaching on March 11, 2023, 12:34:33 PMTwo of my favourites.

The Grimes, because it's misty, moody and very evocative.
The Wingrave, because it sets the scene in a country house, is very 1970s, and is a John Piper.

Hadn't heard of John Piper before now.  Interesting to read a bit about him on Wiki.  Appears to have been a multi-talented artist.  Do you have any of his prints?

PD

(https://i.discogs.com/e51NrWSRQ-h1GnBamunh4A-mnk8MY7vj6ySDG7sE4j8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4Mzk2/NC0xMzk4MDI0NzY1/LTYyNjAuanBlZw.jpeg)

Quote from: JBS on March 06, 2023, 05:51:48 PMThe Giltburg/Petrenko LvB PC 3 & 4 CD I ordered last week landed today and I discovered it (and it seems, the other two CDs in the seried) uses a different cover image than the standard soloist-and-conductor-together image used for the listings at Amazon, Presto, etc.

The image on my copy is a mountain landscape photo attributed to Giltburg himself.
I don't see it on the web now, but I did find this one for PCs 1 & 2.
(https://www.recordshopx.com/cover/normal/6/65/653885.jpg?cd)

I hate how Naxos does these cover arts that are not the original "white" ones. They are not very good at them and against the initial style. It is like selling out, selling your soul and identity. I wish they had continued doing the classic style (yes, it is classical music, so classic cover art is proper!). The classic early style had the composer name on golden bold Times New Roman (I believe) font all capital.

Quote from: 71 dB on March 12, 2023, 01:33:50 AMI hate how Naxos does these cover arts that are not the original "white" ones. They are not very good at them and against the initial style. It is like selling out, selling your soul and identity. I wish they had continued doing the classic style (yes, it is classical music, so classic cover art is proper!). The classic early style had the composer name on golden bold Times New Roman (I believe) font all capital.

@KevinP said otherwise.  ;D

Quote from: KevinP on February 11, 2023, 02:37:05 PMThe Dorati cover doesn't do much for me; however, I really like the Naxos and think it's hurt by the Naxos design, i.e., occupying less than half of a CD cover. If I had that painting as a full-sized LP cover, I might hang it on my wall.

(Not sure it actually says, 'Bartok' to me, but that's another matter.)


Anybody know the painter?

Quote from: absolutelybaching on March 12, 2023, 03:01:31 AMI do indeed. Three of them. All signed.

Nice!  :)

PD

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 12, 2023, 03:01:48 AM@KevinP said otherwise.  ;D

I don't need to agree with anyone about what is good cover art style. The original Naxos style I advocate suites in my opinion to Naxos alone. It is their thing/style, but they have been gradually abandoning it. Maybe they should abandon classical music too, and start releasing pop music instead? Dua Lipa sells so much better than yet another recording of Beethoven's Piano Concertos 1 & 2...

I don't need "big" art. The good thing about the original Naxos cover art style is that it emphasises the composer name/works on the CD compared to the "painting." it is good compositing. The new "bigger cover art "eats up/surrounds the composer name. It is worse compositing that makes the composer look secondary to whoever made the cover painting.

(https://i.discogs.com/G1UkZ8kCkubyrMoLmVgjpvr1UXXqCSQhoeQj0DM0rdg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg1MjI2/OTUtMTU5OTE0Mzk2/NC0zNzkxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Eloquence needs to do a Koeckert series. 

Some cool cover arts featuring Sibelius:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk0MTE1My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NzExMzQxNDV9)(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkzNjc0NS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0MDE5ODI1NTd9)(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyNDI2Ni4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1MzYzMDc3MDV9)

(https://eclassical.textalk.se/shop/17115/art15/h2232/4852232-origpic-e41c6c.jpg)

The slap-a-painting-on-it cover is a common thing, but this cover painting choice is both apt for the music, and interesting because the painter is none other than playwright August Strindberg.

(https://eclassical.textalk.se/shop/17115/art15/h5195/4945195-origpic-60eb2d.jpg) (https://eclassical.textalk.se/shop/17115/art15/h2108/5012108-origpic-8b16d0.jpg)

And these are good because the painter is the composer Mendelssohn himself! (The painting on the piano trios album cover is reversed for graphic design effect; the rest of the painting continues onto the back of the CD booklet.)

Oh I love that Trios cover  :)

Speaking of Mendelssohn's paintings:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk0NDU3MC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6ODAwLCJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWV9LCJ0b0Zvcm1hdCI6ImpwZWciLCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjY1fX0sInRpbWVzdGFtcCI6MjAxOX0=) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyOTQwNC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6ODAwLCJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWV9LCJ0b0Zvcm1hdCI6ImpwZWciLCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjY1fX0sInRpbWVzdGFtcCI6MjAxOX0=) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyNjMyMC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjUwMDc0NjR9) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk4MTA4My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjQ3NTg3NjN9) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk4NzA4OC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjQ3NDU0NTJ9)

Quote from: DavidW on March 13, 2023, 10:17:57 AM(https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/g/369412-1.jpg)
Everything on this album just blew me away!  The playing is dynamite.  This is a keeper!  I'll have to listen to Faust on A Soldier's Tale.  These might be purchases.  Funny enough this represents a period performance.

Quote from: aligreto on March 15, 2023, 07:39:31 AMStrauss: Die Drau Ohne Schatten [Böhm]


(https://i.discogs.com/rOnIFsfAdLfYs2Wnx-I-dZ54QOwlxWKFhBDOysQrUc8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTczNzg4/MTAtMTQ0MDIwODMw/MS05MDk0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Having recently listened to Act 1, I am currently listening to Act 2.

Quote from: Todd on March 13, 2023, 03:31:24 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Y-04m95EL._AC_.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Theodora_mosaic_-_Basilica_San_Vitale_%28Ravenna%29.jpg)(https://i.discogs.com/rOnIFsfAdLfYs2Wnx-I-dZ54QOwlxWKFhBDOysQrUc8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTczNzg4/MTAtMTQ0MDIwODMw/MS05MDk0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Theodora (Ravenna / 6th century) - indeed an empress,  meets Gloria Swanson...!  :)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Gloria_Swanson_from_Male_and_Female.jpg/701px-Gloria_Swanson_from_Male_and_Female.jpg?20091231004927)

Quote from: Florestan on March 15, 2023, 11:08:54 PMSpeaking of Mendelssohn's paintings:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk0NDU3MC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6ODAwLCJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWV9LCJ0b0Zvcm1hdCI6ImpwZWciLCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjY1fX0sInRpbWVzdGFtcCI6MjAxOX0=) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyOTQwNC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6ODAwLCJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWV9LCJ0b0Zvcm1hdCI6ImpwZWciLCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjY1fX0sInRpbWVzdGFtcCI6MjAxOX0=) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyNjMyMC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjUwMDc0NjR9) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk4MTA4My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjQ3NTg3NjN9) (https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk4NzA4OC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjQ3NDU0NTJ9)

He really was quite talented. It seems this was one of his diversions while traveling and holidaying.

BIS has used one of those as well, which I forgot to include:

(https://eclassical.textalk.se/shop/17115/art15/h9020/5029020-origpic-84874f.jpg)

Quote from: Brian on March 16, 2023, 07:15:06 AMHe really was quite talented.

Indeed.

Quote from: Løvfald on March 14, 2023, 12:07:21 PMSome cool cover arts featuring Sibelius:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk0MTE1My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NzExMzQxNDV9)(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkzNjc0NS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0MDE5ODI1NTd9)(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzkyNDI2Ni4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1MzYzMDc3MDV9)

I dislike the font in the newish DG issues. They were not consistent in the past but this font simply does not fit with the classic yellow "cartouche".
Interestingly, they apparently picked the worst Karajan cover for the Originals reissue (of the LP of the 5th), it has nice colors but a silly drawing of a rein or other deer. The nicest cover of the older ones seems the one with the shorter works
(https://i.discogs.com/rs08ZYD3W44NnAu9DltXZWMSRc7tz-FtPCdi8adx9Jc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY2OTcy/MjQtMTQ1OTU0MDgy/Ny02NTg0LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/Kp1kEJtsNXkUCSvznqOpLP2479zwcJS2TnVT4hw088E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:583/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc3NzYw/MjktMTQ0ODUzODMx/Ny0xODc5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

During the "4D" era in the early 1990s, someone at Deutsche Grammophon really cared about cover art and selected some of the most consistently striking images any label has done (in my opinion). I know some are reproductions of pre-existing art, but at least a few of them are originals commissioned by the label.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61OkQNiVz9L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bDPT4+2gL._SL1200_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81TNtPwylHL._SL1310_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51C8LiQHDNL.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OexBy6GxL.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nLdWeT1aL._SL1200_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81srY0+UI7L._SL1400_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/415JA9NVcsL.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7166juzufDL._SL1200_.jpg)

(Inspired by the Rachmaninov composer thread)

I knew Anna Lapwood was an organist but even without that fact, this is a clever, simple but arresting cover.

(https://idagio-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/albums/196589794352/main.jpg?auto=format&dpr=1&crop=faces&fit=crop&w=720&h=720)


(she's also director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge - appointed at the age of 21 !!  :o ) 

Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2023, 06:48:05 AMDuring the "4D" era in the early 1990s, someone at Deutsche Grammophon really cared about cover art and selected some of the most consistently striking images any label has done (in my opinion). I know some are reproductions of pre-existing art, but at least a few of them are originals commissioned by the label.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61OkQNiVz9L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bDPT4+2gL._SL1200_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81TNtPwylHL._SL1310_.jpg)

Yes, they were usually quite good and in any case distinctive. I am not fond of some of the fonts but the pictures are good. The worst and most boring covers for me are usually the artist photos with them often staring awkwardly in the camera or overly narcissist stagings/posings or just boring.

Another one that caught the eye:

(https://idagio-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/albums/5059864531934/main.jpg?auto=format&dpr=1&crop=faces&fit=crop&w=720&h=720)

Almost a shame about the Chandos logo...

These are not bad, methinks:

(https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/b/203937.jpg)(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cW4AAOSwQk9jbPC3/s-l1600.jpg)(https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/b/189720.jpg)

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk0NjcwNC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE2NzA0MzE0Mzd9)

Quote from: Wanderer on April 17, 2023, 12:31:13 AM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81GNo8iWe8L._SL1500_.jpg)

Quote from: DavidW on April 24, 2023, 04:54:19 AMPettersson's 13th:
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2730e043492e4f5ee1a70eb8196)
This one is the dark horse.  Pettersson himself was not satisfied with it, but people that don't like Pettersson's style might REALLY like this symphony.  It is complex and multi-faceted.  It makes no use of the motif that he usually builds themes out of.  It is varied in tone and style.  Wandering from dissonant, nearly atonal to neoclassical in conception. There are passages of neoromantic angst, but also waltz's, quotes of Rossini.  It is a wild ride and the kind of experimental work that I would expect from Schnittke instead of Pettersson.

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODAyNDE3Ni4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NzExMTMwNDJ9)

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 12, 2023, 05:12:12 PM(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODAyNDE3Ni4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NzExMTMwNDJ9)

What a gorgeous photo.

I like this one very much -
'Man wearing bowler hat feeding seagulls by the Thames':

An old favourite - especially relevant after watching 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1938 version) late last night on DVD:

Always liked this one:

Quote from: vandermolen on June 27, 2023, 10:41:42 PMAn old favourite - especially relevant after watching 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1938 version) late last night on DVD:

The one with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce?  :)

PD

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on June 28, 2023, 03:28:24 AMThe one with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce?  :)

PD

Indeed! My favourite version.

Many good Billy the Kid covers. Two of my favourites.

(https://i.imgur.com/T0ARTcc.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Ct200Ux.jpg)

Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2023, 06:48:05 AMDuring the "4D" era in the early 1990s, someone at Deutsche Grammophon really cared about cover art and selected some of the most consistently striking images any label has done (in my opinion). I know some are reproductions of pre-existing art, but at least a few of them are originals commissioned by the label.

To make up for the awful audio, I suspect.

An image that connects with the music.

(https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/jpegs/150dpi/034571280288.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/lMZtfVX.jpg)

Quote from: Irons on July 13, 2023, 07:24:31 AM(https://i.imgur.com/lMZtfVX.jpg)

I like your cover better than mine.  I have a 3-CD set with the Talich (numbering is changed a bit--starting with 5's rather than 9's.  I can't find one of that same CD, but you can see how they changed things around a bit.  Well, I was going to share an image with you but can't!  In any event, the painting is reduced and just in the bottom half of the cover and only showing the hands.  In the upper left-hand corner is a photo showing the heads of the musicians.

The other two CDs are in a similar style.

PD

Quote from: vandermolen on June 28, 2023, 12:08:18 AMAlways liked this one:

The RCA logo looks cool too.

Quote from: vers la flamme on July 15, 2023, 12:18:09 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/7Y2QrjP5/image.png)

Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Seiji Ozawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Well damn, this is a REALLY good recording. Absolutely stellar, virtuosic playing from the whole orchestra, especially the winds and brass, and overall a really big, expansive sound. I found this at a local record shop today, glad I picked it up. Now I'm very curious to hear more of Ozawa's recordings in Chicago from the '60s, as well as some of Jean Martinon's recordings, Martinon of course being music director in Chicago during the same period that Ozawa was conducting a lot of his earliest recordings there.

I was drawn to the album cover as well. I wonder if that's the Art Institute of Chicago.

Not saying it isn't, but I don't recall it ever being that green before.

Quote from: vers la flamme on July 15, 2023, 02:42:18 PMI was drawn to the album cover as well. I wonder if that's the Art Institute of Chicago.

I had the Lp and later the cd. indeed excellent ! And a good - if green...- photograph.

Quote from: pjme on July 16, 2023, 01:28:34 AMImho I find the chosen fragment (Gruenewald/Isenheim altarpiece) a strange choice for Mendelsohn's quartets;
The extremely dramatic painting was the inspiration for Hindemith's opera & symphony.
I don't know the mendelsohn quartets. Is there a connection with death and suffering?

Quite the opposite, I think. More a connection between peace and love in the quartets.

Seems that hands are theme.

Quote from: vers la flamme on July 15, 2023, 02:42:18 PMI was drawn to the album cover as well. I wonder if that's the Art Institute of Chicago.

Quote from: KevinP on July 15, 2023, 03:15:16 PMNot saying it isn't, but I don't recall it ever being that green before.

Looking at Discogs (and the print is really tiny tiny), I believe that it says that the cover photo was taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in NYC).

PD

Quote from: Irons on July 16, 2023, 02:10:47 AMSeems that hands are theme.

(https://media.s-bol.com/j0w97W16ZwzY/550x543.jpg)

Indeed - hands. This (refined, elegant,"romantic")fragment from Georges de la Tour (Saint Joseph) seems more appropriated to me than those "terrible", twisted (almost expressionistic...) hands by Gruenewald. 
Still, hands are wonderful.

Quote from: Brian on July 13, 2023, 10:44:54 AMSome more SEPTEMBER stuff I found on Presto:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiOTUwNjg4Mi4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE2ODc5NDgzOTR9)

Quote from: Bachtoven on July 30, 2023, 11:48:52 AMHe plays all three Sonatas with tremendous technique, power, and poetry.
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/zb/r1/j6jl2oa2lr1zb_600.jpg)

Going through the Blomstedt Complete Decca Recordings box--which utilizes the "original jackets" approach--I am curious about the source/inspiration of the artwork on the Hindemith CDs.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ayBaFHURL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DFFNVDS3L._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Ce9ArGnPL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

I realize the cover of the Mathis der Maler CD derives from Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece, but I don't recognize the originals of the other two CD covers.

Anybody here have the answer?

Quote from: T. D. on August 11, 2023, 07:36:23 PMFrom these images on discogs, the first cover is an illustration by Graham Ward, and the second an illustration by Janet Woolley:


(https://i.discogs.com/hxWtj8yEziGpJY7xySShIbq1dx6_KpddD928W-aUR84/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwOTI5/MzI3LTE1MDY3MzIx/ODUtNzk4OC5qcGVn.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/BwmzMKDYaFIyUpjCuRu_DBpMJw-bk1X3sxXC2O8wfrE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwOTI5/MzI3LTE2NDE2OTA1/ODMtNTYxNC5qcGVn.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/34Ur7SBrlaKBJ4mBBuoNuzTXLLHoBALUKrz_t-3q9NA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:470/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTIz/Mjk3LTE1NzY1OTI3/OTgtMzE5My5qcGVn.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/7VIzdEGQWCeKfp3QmWsmvC0QNSAtnwjFcANH7YR7RdQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTIz/Mjk3LTE1NzY1OTI4/MDAtNTg2MC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Thank you. But I'm wondering what (if any) piece of art was the inspiration/starting point of those two covers, in the way that the Isenheim Altarpiece was the jumping off point for the Mathis der Maler CD.

Sorry, misunderstood. No clue.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/StFrancis_part.jpg/323px-StFrancis_part.jpg)

Fresco in Subiaco - 12th century - this very early portrait (or similar) may have inspired Graham Ward.  Apart from that, this cd cover seems to be Ward's own creation, using several themes relating to Francis'life and Hindemiths libretto for Nobilissima visione:

"CONTENTS
Francis, a talented troubadour, is the son of the rich cloth merchant Bernadone in Assisi. He chases away a beggar who asks for alms, but then runs after him and gives him some money. Meeting a knight awakens his interest in adventurous life. He is moving away with three friends. – Francis witnesses how soldiers attack a rich family in front of the knight, whom he admired so much. At his request to stop the soldiers, he is struck down and disarmed. – In a vision, Francis encounters the allegorical figures of Humility, Chastity and Poverty. – At a party, Francis feels little joy in dancing and can no longer sing as expressively as before. Amused, the party guests crown him with a fool's crown. Francis resists the abuse and distributes food to a group of beggars. An argument with Bernadone makes him realize that nothing connects him to his former life. He takes off his robes and walks away, wearing only an old cloth given to him by a beggar. – Francis' prayer in front of a chapel ends in overwhelming bliss. When his friends run in fear of a dangerous wolf, he tames the animal by playing the violin on two sticks. Guarded by his friends, he lies down on the bare floor to sleep. When Poverty appears, he wakes up, approaches her, embraces her and celebrates his marriage with her. After the bridal meal, consisting of water and bread, Francis begins to dance. His ecstasy increases into divine inspiration for his Canticle of the sun, whose symbolic figures now pass by in a great procession. The three friends adore the new couple, Francis and Poverty."

https://www.hindemith.info/en/life-work/catalogue-of-works/?tx_cagtables_pi2%5Bdetail%5D=15


Janet Woolley's illustration for Die Harmonie der Welt, appears to be inspired by the closing scene of the symphony (the opera):
"At the end of his life, Kepler looks back, falls into resignation and takes stock that death is the great harmony. Music of the spheres sounds in his agony; the stars appear allegorically as characters in the opera and contradict Kepler's negative summary: Above everything that can be researched by man lies a kingdom of supreme majesty, which has the power to "let us rise in its great harmony of the world."

https://www.hindemith.info/en/life-work/catalogue-of-works/?tx_cagtables_pi2%5Bdetail%5D=11

Woolley may have done some research, of course, in early (German) illustrations of planets, stars and heavenly creatures. As did Schott for the score....

(https://www.alle-noten.de/out/pictures/master/product/1/Art_17619.JPG)

Quote from: pjme on August 12, 2023, 06:30:59 AM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/StFrancis_part.jpg/323px-StFrancis_part.jpg)

Fresco in Subiaco - 12th century - this very early portrait may have inspired Graham Ward.  Apart from that, this cd cover seems to be Ward's own creation, using several themes relating to Francis'life and Hindemiths libretto for Nobilissima visione:

"CONTENTS
Francis, a talented troubadour, is the son of the rich cloth merchant Bernadone in Assisi. He chases away a beggar who asks for alms, but then runs after him and gives him some money. Meeting a knight awakens his interest in adventurous life. He is moving away with three friends. – Francis witnesses how soldiers attack a rich family in front of the knight, whom he admired so much. At his request to stop the soldiers, he is struck down and disarmed. – In a vision, Francis encounters the allegorical figures of Humility, Chastity and Poverty. – At a party, Francis feels little joy in dancing and can no longer sing as expressively as before. Amused, the party guests crown him with a fool's crown. Francis resists the abuse and distributes food to a group of beggars. An argument with Bernadone makes him realize that nothing connects him to his former life. He takes off his robes and walks away, wearing only an old cloth given to him by a beggar. – Francis' prayer in front of a chapel ends in overwhelming bliss. When his friends run in fear of a dangerous wolf, he tames the animal by playing the violin on two sticks. Guarded by his friends, he lies down on the bare floor to sleep. When Poverty appears, he wakes up, approaches her, embraces her and celebrates his marriage with her. After the bridal meal, consisting of water and bread, Francis begins to dance. His ecstasy increases into divine inspiration of his Song of the sun, whose symbolic figures now pass by in a great procession. The three friends adore the new couple, Francis and Poverty."

https://www.hindemith.info/en/life-work/catalogue-of-works/?tx_cagtables_pi2%5Bdetail%5D=15


Janet Woolley's illustration for Die Harmonie der Welt, appears to be inspired by the closing scene of the symphony(and the opera):
"At the end of his life, Kepler looks back, falls into resignation and takes stock that death is the great harmony. Music of the spheres sounds in his agony; the stars appear allegorically as characters in the opera and contradict Kepler's negative summary: Above everything that can be researched by man lies a kingdom of supreme majesty, which has the power to "let us rise in its great harmony of the world."

https://www.hindemith.info/en/life-work/catalogue-of-works/?tx_cagtables_pi2%5Bdetail%5D=11

Woolley may have done some research, of course, in early (German) illustrations of planets, stars and heavenly creatures. As did Schott for the score....

(https://www.alle-noten.de/out/pictures/master/product/1/Art_17619.JPG)

Thank you.
I had forgotten the Franciscan and Kepler connections.

This always has attracted me:

(https://www.chandos.net/artwork/CH9786.jpg)

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on August 12, 2023, 02:42:38 PMThis always has attracted me:

(https://www.chandos.net/artwork/CH9786.jpg)

Tastes differ, this immediately looks to me like it belongs in "worst"!

I'm very fond of this one too:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODAxNTgzOS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0MDE5ODI1NTd9)

Quote from: Brian on August 12, 2023, 04:26:59 PMTastes differ, this immediately looks to me like it belongs in "worst"!

It's not as bad as that, but it doesn't thrill me.

For a beautiful Langaard cover image I would submit this one
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51gPjxKqlZL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

(https://rachelbartonpine.com/rbpmain/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Violin-Lullabies-cover.jpg)

Szell, Prokofiev.



(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODQ1Nzc5MS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1Mjc4Nzg2MTF9)

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 22, 2023, 07:56:10 PMSzell, Prokofiev.



(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODQ1Nzc5MS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1Mjc4Nzg2MTF9)

Nice. I might like it even better without the white frame and all the black text and icons. But then I might complain about having text on the painting itself.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91CngRBeCNL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

Milky Way over the Piatra Craiulu Mountains, Romania
Cornel Constantin photographer.

The Piatra Craiulu range is part of the Southern Carpathians and the main element of a national park. According to Wikipedia the name means "King's Rock" or "Rock of the Prince".

Quote from: JBS on September 06, 2023, 05:12:18 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91CngRBeCNL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

Milky Way over the Piatra Craiulu Mountains, Romania
Cornel Constantin photographer.

The Piatra Craiulu range is part of the Southern Carpathians and the main element of a national park. According to Wikipedia the name means "King's Rock" or "Rock of the Prince".

King's Rock is the better translation. Crai is an obsolete term for king (usual term, rege, from the Latin rex) or emperor (usual term, împărat, from the Latin imperator) that originates in the Slavic krali (краль) and it is used exclusively in poetic or literary contexts. It's actually a very good translation for Szymanowksi's Król Roger as Craiul Roger, preserving both the meaning and the etymology, and for Erlkönig as Craiul ielelor, more euphonic and rythmic than Regele ielelor. Also, the Three Wise Men are traditionally rendered as trei crai de la Răsărit, literally three kings from the East (Răsărit is another obsolete but poetical term for East, originating from the Latin resalire; the usual term is est).

Interestingly enough, in a widely used figure of speech crai also means a womanizer.

Hope this helps.

And yes, the photo is splendid.

Quote from: Florestan on September 07, 2023, 01:16:45 AMInterestingly enough, in a widely used figure of speech crai also means a womanizer.

:o

PD

Stolen from WAYL2N. Love this cover:

(https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/125/125291/4/720/telemann-flute-quartets-0028947753791.jpg)

Quote from: AnotherSpin on September 23, 2023, 01:38:30 AMStolen from WAYL2N. Love this cover:

(https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/125/125291/4/720/telemann-flute-quartets-0028947753791.jpg)

Makes me want to get out the silver polish.  ;D   ;)

PD

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on September 23, 2023, 02:57:51 AMMakes me want to get out the silver polish.  ;D   ;)

PD

Wabi-sabi kind of beauty, polish is redundant :)

Quote from: AnotherSpin on September 23, 2023, 03:18:24 AMWabi-sabi kind of beauty, polish is redundant :)

;D

Hyperion has some of the most beautiful and striking cover arts IMO.


(https://cdn1.umg3.net/1314/files/2023/07/034571280875.png)(https://cdn1.umg3.net/1314/files/2023/09/CDA67983.jpg)
(https://cdn1.umg3.net/1314/files/2023/09/CDA67601-TORMIS-Choral-music.jpg)(https://cdn1.umg3.net/1314/files/2023/07/034571175850.png)

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/BCD9433.jpg)

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on October 27, 2023, 02:40:14 PM(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/BCD9433.jpg)

Nice.

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on October 27, 2023, 02:40:14 PM(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/BCD9433.jpg)

Seeing your post immediately brought a Rubinstein cover to mind.

People seem to like scary trees as cover art...

Quote from: Irons on October 28, 2023, 06:30:25 AMSeeing your post immediately brought a Rubinstein cover to mind.

Very cool!

More attractive scary trees on cover arts:

(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiNzk5NTM2MC4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NjQ3NDUyNzZ9)

One for Armistice day 11/11.

Quote from: Irons on November 04, 2023, 01:29:03 AMOne for Armistice day 11/11.

I had never heard of a trench cello (a holiday cello) before now.  I did find this interesting article/interview with Steven Isserlis in which he describes it and how he came to own it.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/10/what-horrors-it-must-have-witnessed-steven-isserlis-on-how-a-trench-cello-found-its-voice-again

PD

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on November 04, 2023, 09:17:56 AMI had never heard of a trench cello (a holiday cello) before now.  I did find this interesting article/interview with Steven Isserlis in which he describes it and how he came to own it.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/10/what-horrors-it-must-have-witnessed-steven-isserlis-on-how-a-trench-cello-found-its-voice-again

PD

Fascinating. You get the impression that cellists are a bit of a club. All in it together.

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I like the simplicity of Herschel Levit's Rubinstein cover. Looking him up he has a fine body of work.

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(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/6186sfhxeWL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

(https://i.discogs.com/jODapeSl7kevZHcYNRmtEbxsuUMl1x-_4ZHs0ytUeoM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:539/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2NTQw/ODY0LTE2Nzk3NjI1/ODctODYyNS5qcGVn.jpeg)

My first reaction was this is one for Worst looking CD/LP artwork - but then I realised this was Elektra.

I had the exact same reaction just now.

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on July 13, 2023, 08:00:58 AMI like your cover better than mine.  I have a 3-CD set with the Talich (numbering is changed a bit--starting with 5's rather than 9's.  I can't find one of that same CD, but you can see how they changed things around a bit.  Well, I was going to share an image with you but can't!  In any event, the painting is reduced and just in the bottom half of the cover and only showing the hands.  In the upper left-hand corner is a photo showing the heads of the musicians.

The other two CDs are in a similar style.

PD

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Fabulous.

Note they didn't have AI generated art in 1986 ;) .

(https://i.discogs.com/HJui1KYjp7TlGvQagZK8UYB6yHamDkAj2_oDtwHgttY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc3NTcx/MDEtMTcwMjQ3MDgw/OC02NDA2LmpwZWc.jpeg)

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Quote from: AnotherSpin on September 23, 2023, 01:38:30 AMStolen from WAYL2N. Love this cover:

(https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/125/125291/4/720/telemann-flute-quartets-0028947753791.jpg)

I have the feeling like this photo was originally intended for the cover of Tafelmusik.

I quite like the template Praga uses, apparently for historical releases. That typeface was a bold choice but it works. The graphic designer really knew what they were doing.

The Glossa label has some fine covers.
glossa.jpg

Those Double Deccas were always impeccably designed.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BWR-aLNgL._AC_SL1200_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71NFhjSm9jL._AC_SL1200_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61CNxwJVEFL._AC_SL1200_.jpg) (https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/125/125082/195/walton-symphonies-concertos-0028947565347.jpg)

I've always liked ECM's grey aesthetic.

ECM.jpg

Alpha's releases are always visually striking and well designed.

alpha.jpg

(https://i.imgur.com/9HuDrGM.jpg)

Depending on taste could qualify either best or worst. 

Quote from: Irons on September 07, 2024, 05:47:23 AM(https://i.imgur.com/9HuDrGM.jpg)

Depending on taste could qualify either best or worst. 

Reminds me a bit of Saint-Exupery's own drawings for Le petit prince --- so given the music, I'd say it's very good.

H/T @hopefullytrusting
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Quote from: Florestan on September 07, 2024, 05:53:49 AMReminds me a bit of Saint-Exupery's own drawings for Le petit prince --- so given the music, I'd say it's very good.

I still remember his drawing and the words:  "Ce n'était pas un chapeau.  C'était un serpent boa qui digérait un éléphant."  :)  :laugh:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/8b/78/a78b781a46b44aae5b4f21900d60fd94.jpg)

PD

Quote from: Irons on September 07, 2024, 05:47:23 AMDepending on taste could qualify either best or worst. 

Worst, but could have been saved with better typography.

(https://i.imgur.com/kCI99X6.png)

Quote from: JBS on September 07, 2024, 08:02:00 AMH/T @hopefullytrusting
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Artwork is nice but typography is lacking. Also, 2,3,4,9 should have continued the theme of antique illustrations followed by the other two.

Quote from: JBS on September 07, 2024, 08:02:00 AM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61NTPhLUk7L._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)

I made some adjustments on this cover art to make it please my own eyes even more. In my opinion it is better everything obeys the same sepia colour scheme. I also feel the texts aren't balanced in and also take a bit too much horizontal space making the tower visually less prominent. I'm interested to hear if other here agree with my adjustments.

Ben-Johnston.jpg

Quote from: Florestan on September 07, 2024, 05:53:49 AMReminds me a bit of Saint-Exupery's own drawings for Le petit prince --- so given the music, I'd say it's very good.

I like it, but maybe after decorating a room in white a splurge of colour comes of some relief!

Cover design credited to Denise Wagnerova 1980.

Quote from: 71 dB on September 08, 2024, 03:53:47 AMI made some adjustments on this cover art to make it please my own eyes even more. In my opinion it is better everything obeys the same sepia colour scheme. I also feel the texts aren't balanced in and also take a bit too much horizontal space making the tower visually less prominent. I'm interested to hear if other here agree with my adjustments.

In monochrome it's less interesting but I agree that there was no reason for the initials to be red. In black it's now harder to see the circluar foundation of the design. But I just discovered these works were composed in the 20th century, so I'm not sure why the designer chose this illustration. I had assumed Ben Johnston was some obscure baroque composer. I probably would have chosen different art but assuming I was stuck with this, I would have used a more modern typeface in an attempt to indicate the nature of the music.
(https://i.imgur.com/0MVeDc9.png)

Johnston's music made use of just intonation and his compositional technique seems to have relied on the mathematical properties of notes and intervals rather heavily.
Which make the covers rather fitting.
The Wikipedia bio has plenty of details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston_(composer)

Quote from: JBS on September 08, 2024, 06:38:16 PMJohnston's music made use of just intonation and his compositional technique seems to have relied on the mathematical properties of notes and intervals rather heavily.
Which make the covers rather fitting.
The Wikipedia bio has plenty of details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston_(composer)

But you don't have to go back to the 17th century to find illustrations of mathematical thinking.

Quote from: hopefullytrusting on September 08, 2024, 06:52:04 PMIt goes far beyond that, as that quartet's purpose for starting was to record all his string quartets.

He was involved in the entire process, including production (there are videos on YouTube).

It wouldn't surprise me if he selected each image.

Amazing guy, as well. :-)

If that's true, he missed the opportunity to unite all the covers visually, which would have been more fitting in keeping with the math concept. They could have all fit together like pieces of a puzzle to demonstrate his ideas.

Quote from: ShineyMcShineShine on September 08, 2024, 01:26:46 PMIn monochrome it's less interesting but I agree that there was no reason for the initials to be red. In black it's now harder to see the circluar foundation of the design. But I just discovered these works were composed in the 20th century, so I'm not sure why the designer chose this illustration. I had assumed Ben Johnston was some obscure baroque composer. I probably would have chosen different art but assuming I was stuck with this, I would have used a more modern typeface in an attempt to indicate the nature of the music.
(https://i.imgur.com/0MVeDc9.png)

We disagree about the colours, but your version is better than the original.

Quote from: hopefullytrusting on September 08, 2024, 09:01:18 PMWho's to say they didn't?

He might have encoded secret messages in the covers for all I know, my point is that they have nothing in common except that the name Ben Johnston appears on all three.

Effective use of Art Deco style.

(https://i.imgur.com/0OiJlDb.jpg)

Cover designed by Josef Kalousek.  https://www.discogs.com/artist/1829203-Josef-Kalousek

Quote from: Irons on September 12, 2024, 01:54:50 AMEffective use of Art Deco style.

(https://i.imgur.com/0OiJlDb.jpg)

Cover designed by Josef Kalousek.  https://www.discogs.com/artist/1829203-Josef-Kalousek

That's good cover art for sure, but I prefer it without the light blue decoration:

HWAG.jpg

Quote from: DavidW on December 12, 2023, 09:21:14 AMI'm going to add this Atterberg disc to my monthly focus, it is a stunner!

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Feclassical.textalk.se%2Fshop%2F17115%2Fart15%2Fh3286%2F4583286-origpic-42fd25.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=4eee4df52dba42ab611e93464a40531955dce0e57b80d05aeaacffe26debf509&ipo=images)

That and Weinberg SQs v 1 of Danel will do for the rest of the month

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2F5lYAAOSwufhe-~EX%2Fs-l400.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a72a88b03d5193adc815364a7c5402e43e671cc715abec7998fba77dc0eaa296&ipo=images)

(https://melody.su/upload/resize_cache/iblock/b74/1024_1024_1/b74fc98c14039ca9181baf4469e0a403.jpg)

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - Rozhdestvensky/Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks

(gotta love the pompousness of the orchestra's name...  ;D )

Quote from: Irons on September 12, 2024, 01:54:50 AMEffective use of Art Deco style.

(https://i.imgur.com/0OiJlDb.jpg)

Cover designed by Josef Kalousek.  https://www.discogs.com/artist/1829203-Josef-Kalousek

Sorry, but this is a famous creation by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

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  - part of the


The Moon and the Stars (series) (1902)
In this series of decorative panels, Mucha again chose to personify the stars as female figures. This time, however, he sought to surpass the panels' decorative function by exploring the deeper meaning of his subjects. The women are no longer confined to ornate crescents and alcoves, but instead float in space and are illuminated by a light radiating from within the composition. Their poses are meditative and dramatic rather than sensual. In all four panels, Mucha demonstrates great skill in rendering the texture and sheen of rich textiles.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/art-nouveau

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Moreover, Mucha s work is a flamboyant example of of Art Nouveau/Jugendstil, definitely not Art déco (ca 1920-1930).

For Art Déco check out
Tamara De Lempicka! (https://www.delempicka.org/artwork/)
and  https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/art-deco

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Foldnewsclub.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F07%2FAuto-Portrait-by-Tamara-De-Lempicka-header-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=c38e26719db08b6f7e62570aecf7c56db891cf91f26cf52e36caa11a578b745f&ipo=images)

On October 29, 2023, Mr. Josef Kalousek, a well-known painter, gallerist, Hradčany neighbor and friend to many, died at the age of 87. Josef Kalousek worked and painted for many years in his studio in Hradčany. Influenced by the beauty of Prague, which was his inspiration throughout his life, he mostly painted Prague motifs. His paintings thus became known both in our country and in the world.
He was close to music and worked as a swing bandleader with Lac Deczi, Ivan Mládek and Eva Olmerová. Together with his wife Světlana, they ran the Josef Kalouska Gallery in Hradčany and the Lapidárium Gallery in the Old Town.

(https://i.discogs.com/InS9Sc_ODmL09UbnMmbWBcH1Nsxh1nkPDI5IE5t6upE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:190/w:236/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTE4Mjky/MDMtMTUzMjQzNDc4/OS02Mzk3LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://www.praha1.cz/app/uploads/2023/11/Josef-Kalousek-1024x682.jpg)

This Josef Kalousek may well have made graphic designs for Supraphon in general, as his name is often quoted - but I'm not certain.

Quote from: pjme on October 03, 2024, 03:52:36 AMSorry, but this a famous creation of Alphons Mucha
...
  - part of the
...
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Great for biscuit tins and that kind of thing...  ;)

Quote from: pjme on October 03, 2024, 03:52:36 AMFor Art Déco check out Tamara De Lempicka!
and  https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/art-deco (https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/art-deco)

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Foldnewsclub.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F07%2FAuto-Portrait-by-Tamara-De-Lempicka-header-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=c38e26719db08b6f7e62570aecf7c56db891cf91f26cf52e36caa11a578b745f&ipo=images)

Great for travel posters, and that kind of thing...  ;D
 
Sorry, Peter, couldn't resist. Mucha and Lempicka are two artists whose work I do not like at all. But de gustibus non est disputandum!  :)

Good day to you...

Dear Rafael, I only wanted to point out that the Supraphon LP sleeve was not the work of mr. Kalousek. 

I do admire the technical (and poetical) qualities of Mucha and de Lempicka's  art. I agree that both artists have been commercialized ad nauseam. 

Quote from: Florestan on October 02, 2024, 11:19:51 AM(https://melody.su/upload/resize_cache/iblock/b74/1024_1024_1/b74fc98c14039ca9181baf4469e0a403.jpg)

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - Rozhdestvensky/Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks

(gotta love the pompousness of the orchestra's name...  ;D )

I wonder about the (golden) script/font of the title. Impossible to read for me (unlike the white) and it looks like a strange adaption of a late medieval Latin script for kyrillic. Or were there historically such ornate letters for kyrillic?

It's a beautiful picture but it looks a bit to Germanic/Alpine to me to be the best fit for Russian ballet music.

I love Tamara de Lempicka!

Quote from: Jo498 on October 03, 2024, 06:01:25 AMI wonder about the (golden) script/font of the title. Impossible to read for me (unlike the white) and it looks like a strange adaption of a late medieval Latin script for kyrillic. Or were there historically such ornate letters for kyrillic?

I have no problem reading Lebedinoe ozero, but I studied Russian in secondary school and reading a Russian text poses no problem to me.

To my eyes it looks like they wanted to make Russian letters look like Gothic ones.

QuoteIt's a beautiful picture but it looks a bit to Germanic/Alpine to me to be the best fit for Russian ballet music.

Given that all characters have German names, I'd say it's a perfect fit.

I wonder if this "lake & ruin" is a genuine 19th century painting or a recent "fantasy" interpretation.

At the Petipa foundation one gets an idea of the first staging.

https://petipasociety.com/swan-lake-photo-gallery/

Quote from: pjme on October 03, 2024, 07:03:27 AMI wonder if this "lake & ruin" is a genuine 19th century painting or a recent "fantasy" interpretation.

At the Petipa foundation one gets an idea of the first staging.

https://petipasociety.com/swan-lake-photo-gallery/

(https://petipasociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/swan-lake-act-3-decor.jpg)

Not very far away from the Melodyia cover.

Quote from: pjme on October 03, 2024, 07:03:27 AMI wonder if this "lake & ruin" is a genuine 19th century painting or a recent "fantasy" interpretation.

I just checked the booklet. It says "The design was created using graphic neural networks" (whatever that might mean). The release is from 2023, although the recording itself dates from 1969.

The Moldau was one of the first classical pieces I heard, when I was very young, and knew who the composer was!

Years later, when this LP came out, I sighed quite often in front of this picture!  ;)  ;D


(https://leonardbernstein.com/uploads/discographies/images/Sony_Smetana_The_Bartered_Bride-1492704581-440x440.jpg)

Quote from: Florestan on October 03, 2024, 07:24:24 AMI just checked the booklet. It says "The design was created using graphic neural networks" (whatever that might mean). The release is from 2023, although the recording itself dates from 1969.

That means it was made using AI! Looking closely at the fake "painting," the clues are very subtle. The reflections in the water do not always perfectly match the landscape above (certain trees are reflected at odd angles, and the mountains are different), and the ruined castle or abbey is an oddly shaped building.

Quote from: Cato on October 03, 2024, 07:28:17 AMThe Moldau was one of the first classical pieces I heard, when I was very young, and knew who the composer was!

Years later, when this LP came out, I sighed quite often in front of this picture!  ;)  ;D


(https://leonardbernstein.com/uploads/discographies/images/Sony_Smetana_The_Bartered_Bride-1492704581-440x440.jpg)

Greetings Sarge!  @Sergeant Rock

I saw that you liked the Smetana Moldau LP from yesteryear!

I am betting that maybe you had a copy also (?).


I tried to send you a message, but your "Inbox" is full!

Jedenfalls hoffe ich sehr, dass Dir und deiner Familie alles am besten geht!

Beste Wuensche!

 😇

Quote from: Brian on October 04, 2024, 05:53:29 AMThat means it was made using AI! Looking closely at the fake "painting," the clues are very subtle. The reflections in the water do not always perfectly match the landscape above (certain trees are reflected at odd angles, and the mountains are different), and the ruined castle or abbey is an oddly shaped building.

Yes, look at the castle and see where the sunlight is hitting it; the reflection in the water is off.

K

Quote from: Brian on October 04, 2024, 05:53:29 AMThat means it was made using AI!

Oh, I was absolutely certain about that. "Whatever that might mean" referred to graphic neural networks. Heck, doesn't each and every graphic artist uses his neural networks?  ;D 

Quote from: Cato on October 03, 2024, 07:28:17 AM(https://leonardbernstein.com/uploads/discographies/images/Sony_Smetana_The_Bartered_Bride-1492704581-440x440.jpg)

Judging by the colors of the ribbons, she looks rather Hungarian than Czech...  ;D

Quote from: Cato on October 04, 2024, 07:30:33 AMGreetings Sarge!  @Sergeant Rock

I saw that you liked the Smetana Moldau LP from yesteryear!

I am betting that maybe you had a copy also (?).

Hey, Cato. No, I don't have this LP. Wish I Did!

Sarge

Quote from: Cato on October 03, 2024, 07:28:17 AMThe Moldau was one of the first classical pieces I heard, when I was very young, and knew who the composer was!

Years later, when this LP came out, I sighed quite often in front of this picture!  ;)  ;D


(https://leonardbernstein.com/uploads/discographies/images/Sony_Smetana_The_Bartered_Bride-1492704581-440x440.jpg)

Quote from: Florestan on October 04, 2024, 08:28:11 AMJudging by the colors of the ribbons, she looks rather Hungarian than Czech...  ;D

It doesn't look to me to be traditional attire at all (neither Hungarian nor Czech).  I'm not an expert though.  🤷  Thinking in terms of headdress, skirt style, colors, etc.

K

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 04, 2024, 09:02:58 AMHey, Cato. No, I don't have this LP. Wish I Did!

Sarge

Nice to hear from you.  How are you feeling these days?

K

Quote from: Kalevala on October 04, 2024, 09:35:55 AMIt doesn't look to me to be traditional attire at all (neither Hungarian nor Czech).  I'm not an expert though.  🤷  Thinking in terms of headdress, skirt style, colors, etc.

K

I am sure it looked "Central European/Slavic" enough to the guys in The Record-Jacket Design Department!  ;D

Quote from: Cato on October 04, 2024, 02:20:35 PMI am sure it looked "Central European/Slavic" enough to the guys in The Record-Jacket Design Department!  ;D

Well, most such guys would know that Paderewski was President of Poland, or that Budapest is the capital city of Romania... and that Prague is West of Vienna would come as a big surprise to most of them...

 ;D  ;D  ;D

Quote from: Florestan on October 04, 2024, 02:29:30 PMWell, most such guys would know that Paderewski was President of Poland, or that Budapest is the capital city of Romania... and that Prague is West of Vienna would come as a big surprise to most of them...

 ;D  ;D  ;D

Sad, but probably true!   ;D

"The London Underground is not a group of revolutionaries!"   8)

Quote from: Cato on October 04, 2024, 03:23:59 PMSad, but probably true!   ;D

"The London Underground is not a group of revolutionaries!"   8)

As Eastward as it gets, as bad --- but the Earth is round....

Present company always excluded.

Quote from: Cato on October 04, 2024, 02:20:35 PMI am sure it looked "Central European/Slavic" enough to the guys in The Record-Jacket Design Department!  ;D

I am not well-versed in folk costumes, but it seems to me that the outfit is similar to those associated with Transcarpathia, where influences from Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine are mixed. For comparison:

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IBoAAOSwttZhNm1m/s-l1600.webp)

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Quote from: ritter on October 03, 2024, 05:07:44 AMGreat for biscuit tins and that kind of thing...  ;)
Great for travel posters, and that kind of thing...  ;D
 
Sorry, Peter, couldn't resist. Mucha and Lempicka are two artists whose work I do not like at all. But de gustibus non est disputandum!  :)

Good day to you...

I guess then you don't like Federico Beltran-Masses either? I like his works (and Lempicka.)
Just in case and for those who are interested, a recent CNN article about Lempicka is below.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/style/tamara-lempicka-painting-art-deco-exhibit/index.html

One of those I like the cover more then the music.

Tippett: A Child of Our Time:

Quote from: Irons on October 29, 2024, 08:05:00 AMOne of those I like the cover more then the music.

But it's missing the net and court markings! And people in the middle of it [plus a fountain and a dog...] ;D  ;)

K

This  8) .

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Via @Symphonic Addict on the Listening thread
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Quote from: JBS on April 29, 2025, 03:18:35 PMVia @Symphonic Addict on the Listening thread
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Very cool indeed!

Quote from: JBS on April 29, 2025, 03:18:35 PMVia @Symphonic Addict on the Listening thread
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Quote from: Symphonic Addict on April 29, 2025, 03:37:30 PMVery cool indeed!

This portrait (which is actually much larger) was done by artist Eric Smith:

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That painting really is excellent. I do wish they'd gone with a design that didn't involve type in all four corners, and cut out the drop shadow, but what a portrait!

Quote from: Irons on January 24, 2022, 01:06:02 AMI had the Ricci/Sibelius on a Decca WB but disliked the performance. The LP was not in the best of shape but being so collectable I decided to sell it being honest and upfront concerning condition. It was over two years ago but definitely three figures and the buyer was happy with his purchase.

On the subject of Ricci this is a strange one -

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Ricci and Ansermet are both hugely collectable and together are sure-fire winners. Decca Eclipse was Decca's bargain-basement reissue label. Mostly mono and issued on Eclipse in fake stereo. ECS 746 is unique in being the only LP to receive it's first and only release in the UK (there was a full price issue in the US). In real stereo, popular composer and artists and yet Decca only put it out on the cheapest label in their catalogue! Very strange. My theory is, as the sound is excellent, artistic. I think the more knowledgeable GMG would throw their hands up at the second movement of the second concerto. Even to my cloth ears it doesn't sound right.
The price I paid is on the sticker at top right of inner sleeve.