Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Florestan]

1960

My "imprint" and still favorite CB; but the recording quality is too dated to merit a recommendation.  Still hate the "collage" cover illustration however.

Incidentally, Ormndy's usual collaborative chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, refused to participate in the recording because of objection to the risque Latin.  So the recording was done with the Rutgers University Choir--  a bunch of college kids.

Quite appropriate, given that back then in the Middle Ages the Carmina burana songs were sung precisely by... college kids. 

[Jo498]

"In taberna quando sumus" would probably be almost as offensive for Mormons as "Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula - fe-he-he-he-he-helix coniunctio!"

And, as hard as it might be to believe, medieval and early modern students were actually worse than they are today. A student riot usually involved people getting killed (as everyone was wearing swords or knives).

[Florestan]

And, as hard as it might be to believe, medieval and early modern students were actually worse than they are today. A student riot usually involved people getting killed (as everyone was wearing swords or knives).

Not to mention the open, continuous warfare, both ideological and physical, between students and burghers, which incidentally gave rise to the abusive (and unfair) term "Philister". And it was not only a German phenomenon, as Hugo's Notre-Dame-de-Paris attests.

[Biffo]

"In taberna quando sumus" would probably be almost as offensive for Mormons as "Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula - fe-he-he-he-he-helix coniunctio!"

And, as hard as it might be to believe, medieval and early modern students were actually worse than they are today. A student riot usually involved people getting killed (as everyone was wearing swords or knives).

Berlioz used the German student song Gaudeamus igitur in The Damnation of Faust. The words are nowhere near as risqué as those of Carmina burana but when the work was performed in Germany Berlioz was vilified by a German critic for defaming virtuous German students!

[Florestan]

Berlioz used the German student song Gaudeamus igitur in The Damnation of Faust. The words are nowhere near as risqué as those of Carmina burana but when the work was performed in Germany Berlioz was vilified by a German critic for defaming virtuous German students!

Well, our vices are always more virtuous and commendable than those of our neighbours. 

[JBS]

"In taberna quando sumus" would probably be almost as offensive for Mormons as "Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula - fe-he-he-he-he-helix coniunctio!"

And, as hard as it might be to believe, medieval and early modern students were actually worse than they are today. A student riot usually involved people getting killed (as everyone was wearing swords or knives).

Well the antepenultimate movement, Dulcissime, consists of the soprano singing an orgasm...

[Jo498]

Berlioz used the German student song Gaudeamus igitur in The Damnation of Faust. The words are nowhere near as risqué as those of Carmina burana but when the work was performed in Germany Berlioz was vilified by a German critic for defaming virtuous German students!

The 19th century students still wore sometimes swords but were pretty tame. Berlioz should have said that he was just setting the scenes from Goethe's Faust with the raucous crowd in Auerbach's Keller (pub). The satirical songs of the rat and the flea are actually by Goethe, not "traditional" ones, like Gaudeamus igitur

The Carmina Burana are really old (manuscript from ~1230s, many of the ~250 songs probably a century older) and were only found again in the early 19th century. The erotic settings included in Orff are supposedly not even the most explicit in the collection. And it's somewhat disputed that most of them were really student songs. Apparently many are too artful and sophisticated and were probably more "old boys' entertainment" reminiscing of their days of yore.

[Biffo]

The 19th century students still wore sometimes swords but were pretty tame. Berlioz should have said that he was just setting the scenes from Goethe's Faust with the raucous crowd in Auerbach's Keller (pub). The satirical songs of the rat and the flea are actually by Goethe, not "traditional" ones, like Gaudeamus igitur

The Carmina Burana are really old (manuscript from ~1230s, many of the ~250 songs probably a century older) and were only found again in the early 19th century. The erotic settings included in Orff are supposedly not even the most explicit in the collection. And it's somewhat disputed that most of them were really student songs. Apparently many are too artful and sophisticated and were probably more "old boys' entertainment" reminiscing of their days of yore.

The Damnation of Faust grew out an earlier work, Eight Scenes from Goethe's Faust, Op 1. When Berlioz expanded the work he added Gaudeamus igitur, a setting of the Racoczy March and verses of his own. He also changed Goethe's story considerably, most notably the ending where Faust gets dragged off to Hell as in the Faust Book and Christopher Marlowe's version of the Faust legend.

[André]

Well the antepenultimate movement, Dulcissime, consists of the soprano singing an orgasm...

I was once tuttuted by John for describing that moment as the soprano creaming her panties 

[Scion7]

Already posted?
Anyway:

[Peter Power Pop]

Believe it or not, this cover is real.

https://www.amazon.com/Premiere-Recordings-Milton-Babbitt/dp/B0000D8I12

[SonicMan46]

Believe it or not, this cover is real.

https://www.amazon.com/Premiere-Recordings-Milton-Babbitt/dp/B0000D8I12

Well, let's resize the image -    Dave

[Peter Power Pop]

Well, let's resize the image -    Dave

Done.

[Madiel]

And yet, it still hurts my eyes.

[Todd]

[Spotted Horses]

Like cardboard  .

Quinoa is delicious!

[JBS]

The cover is cute...but the concept!

[T. D.]

[pjme]

I958

Big band collection.  But cover reminds me of syphillis chancre.

Francis Bay - that is Belgian youth sentimentality! He was the conductor of the BRT "amusementsorkest" and accompanied numerous Belgian singers at the Eurovison Songcontest.
https://www.youtube.com/v/uRR07k_md6Y

[Irons]

Francis Bay - that is Belgian youth sentimentality! He was the conductor of the BRT "amusementsorkest" and accompanied numerous Belgian singers at the Eurovison Songcontest.
https://www.youtube.com/v/uRR07k_md6Y

I actually thought that rather good!