What on earth is one to make of the covers of the Chailly/Gewandhaus video Mahler cycle...? 
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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The artist is NEO RAUCH ( b.1960, Leipzig). The painting on the cover of #5 is called ( English translation) 'Late Homecoming'.
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Many thanks to Tony for the information
My somewhat uncharitable response to Cali's
... was "Marc Chagall meets Norman Rockwell"!Originally posted by Caliban View PostWhat on earth is one to make of the covers of the Chailly/Gewandhaus video Mahler cycle...?
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Hiya EdgeleyRob,Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1754917-1430684612-6852.jpeg.jpg)
I suppose suggestions of sex and violence was thought to sell especially in a trendy setting. I can't find the worlds to express what it looks like today.Last edited by Stanfordian; 08-07-16, 12:22.Comment
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... okay! Thanks Tony. Seems I wasn't far off the desired reaction! "German painter Neo Rauch has mesmerized and mystified viewers" - they got that right! Reading on, the description I suppose in some senses hints at why they might have been chosen for a Mahler cycle ("allegorical and epic scenes whose elements of folklore and myth seem at once local and elusive")Originally posted by Tony View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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(My perhaps even more uncharitable private response last night to my own question was: "Birthday cards for people one doesn't like" - keeping the unadorned discs/cases for oneself, as the performances are apparently tremendous...)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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As pointed out by AMcG in Saturday's Record Review, this new Telemann release surely qualifies for this thread!!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Firelighters???Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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"Ho ho off go the cows"
AS RVW might have said, I don't know whether it's what they meant, but I like it....Comment
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What Pegasus would have looked like with Jeff Koons as stable boy?Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post"Ho ho off go the cows"
I can't help noticing that Reinbert de Leeuw is an anagram of wet blue reindeer, which, in the colourful flying ungulate sense, seems of a piece.Comment
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Can't do images on here but here's one destined to be a classic...
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Was hoping that this would turn out to be just a new magic gunk like WD40. But when it proved to be a CD, I was still almost prepared to forgive it on the basis that any WAM sampler that includes something from the Gran Partita can't be all badOriginally posted by Petrushka View Post
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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All five of them.
A novelty act from a Secure Unit music class, surely...."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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