Best looking CD/LP for sleeve & artwork

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geralmar

#160
February 17, 2023, 07:23:52 PM
No explanation; but I really like this cover:




While equally disliking the pose on the back:

Florestan

#161
February 18, 2023, 06:49:48 AM
Quote from: geralmar on February 17, 2023, 07:23:52 PMNo explanation; but I really like this cover:




While equally disliking the pose on the back:



Heartily agreed on both counts.

Anyway, great music.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

KevinP

#162
February 18, 2023, 04:46:41 PM
Quote from: geralmar on February 17, 2023, 07:23:52 PMNo explanation; but I really like this cover:




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.

Irons

#163
February 19, 2023, 01:51:41 AM
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.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Irons

#164
February 19, 2023, 01:54:38 AM
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
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

pjme

#165
February 19, 2023, 03:35:12 AM Last Edit: February 19, 2023, 06:17:16 AM by pjme
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

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

DavidW

#166
February 19, 2023, 08:09:05 AM
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).

pjme

#167
February 19, 2023, 10:20:49 AM
Quote from: DavidW on February 19, 2023, 08:09:05 AMhard concrete and rocks

But...that is the Fontana di Trevi!

DavidW

#168
February 19, 2023, 01:57:21 PM
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!

Irons

#170
February 22, 2023, 12:05:08 AM
Turnabout had a cover style all of their own.





Odd placement of the cellist.

You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

pjme

#171
February 22, 2023, 05:01:33 AM
Agreed! Some excellent graphics + one Mahler/Horenstein/Nonesuch







Dry Brett Kavanaugh

#172
February 22, 2023, 04:59:15 PM
^ I like all of them. Very nice.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

#173
February 22, 2023, 05:00:29 PM

KevinP

#174
March 03, 2023, 06:18:34 PM


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.

Irons

#176
March 06, 2023, 08:08:05 AM
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

JBS

#177
March 06, 2023, 05:51:48 PM
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.

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

Todd

#178
March 11, 2023, 10:31:02 AM
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Pohjolas Daughter

#179
March 11, 2023, 01:30:30 PM
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
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