-
-
Shows what happens if you put LSD in the fertilizer!Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostGetaloadathis......
PS K....I have that Bitches Brew CD and admire it equally....Comment
-
In the 1960s Phillips put wonderful abstract expressionist pictures on their Modern Music LP series. The art has to be relevant to the music, surely? The cubist Picasso on the cover of an LP from the late 1950s coupling Schoenberg's violin and piano concertos was aesthetically at odds: it should have gone on something composed by Stravinsky between The Rite and Mavra, in my view, whereas the Kandinsky abstract on a Schoenberg coupling of the Op 16 Orchestral Pieces and the Hanging Gardens songs was perfectly in keeping in its association of artist and musician: you can get an inkling of what Schoenberg's free atonal works are about by the comparison, and Schoenberg had actually exhibited alongside the Blue Rider group at that particular time. There's a great semi-surrealist/expressionist painting on the cover of an LP of Hindemith works of mine from the 1920s which is also in sync, though oddly the artist is not anywhere named on the sleeve, but it looks likely to be Grosz.Comment
-
One of those Schoenberg-Blaue self-portraits..... another early library-LP, possibly the first Schoenberg I heard beyond a few R3 concerts, very evocative of a time of listening adventure... music & image spoke to me and to each other..... I adored this, gazing upon it as an icon......
Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 18-04-21, 20:28.Comment
-
This scarcely needs any comment except......wonderful!
Comment
-
-
There used often to be Toulouse Lautrec's poster for the Chat Noir club in Montmartre, where I believe Satie used to accompany the dances and strip tease on piano. I've often wondered of Satie and Toulouse Lautrec were acquainted; there are strong parallels between their arts, I think.Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
Indeed.Comment
-
The record sleeve designs I could have done without, although the series gave mid-price access to some previously full price DG records, were the Karajan-Edition 100 Meisterwerke Serie Gallerie to commemorate the centenary of the Berlin PHilharmonic in 1982. The fifty LPs were adorned by paintings (often details from) by Eliette von Karajan, the conductor’s third wife. The obvious nepotism is as poor as the artwork (IMHO).Comment
-
I could scarcely contain my excitement bringing this home from the library one chilly March evening. The design spoke of something thrillingly new and modern, but the the music, which I'd only ever heard or read of, never actually heard, before..... music from just 30 years before, yet so expressive and compelling! I saw it in the rack, and knew it had to be one of the two LPs I'd bring home that day (you were allowed to borrow just two on each visit).
It helped to inspire a love of Bartok and 20thC music, (especially from the mid-20thC) that has nourished me all my life.
Comment
-
The covers of McLaughlin's last few albums are pretty good:
Comment
-
Agreed! As aesthetically displeasing as the Sony 'Bernstein' series featuring the amateurish watercolours of Prince Charles. On reading HRH's foreword, it's obvious that....... I'll stop here. That's another story!Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostComment
-
With music conducted by Bernstein who cares what the packaging is? I remember remarking unfavourably on an LP sleeve to a friend - whose response was ‘OK but you don’t play the sleeve’. That was then - now it is even more the case as we move into the download/streaming era where even seeing the booklet is optional at best!Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostComment
-
Not my usual listening but sorely tempted by this Chandos disc of music by Grazyna Bacewicz just for the brilliant cover art alone.
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
-
One considerable advantage offered by some vendors today is the option of downloading a pdf of the artwork and booklet notes prior to, and/or indeed without, purchase.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
-
Of course, but the thread is specifically about the album artwork.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
Comment