Bizarre Album Covers

[Serial_Apologist]

Strange one... As far as I can make out, none of the individuals depicted is either Strauss or Walter.

All rather British I would say - those Eton collars...

[LezLee]

Great Elgarian moustaches!

[teamsaint]

Perhaps they are out on the course after a bit of a Domestica....

[Bryn]

Since when is a work composed between 1901 and 1902 a 19th Century Classic?

[Nick Armstrong]

[cloughie]

Strange one... As far as I can make out, none of the individuals depicted is either Strauss or Walter.

But that’s one hell,of a baton he’s using!

[Petrushka]

[Bryn]

Derek was quite a card. He may well have come up with that title himself.

[Nick Armstrong]

Derek was quite a card. He may well have come up with that title himself.

Amazing knowledge, Bryn

[Bryn]

Amazing knowledge, Bryn

I interviewed him, along with other Chieftains, for the (London version of) Caribbean Times in the green Room after an RFH concert back in the early 1980s. He had me in fits with his anecdotes, and what a versatile musician!

[RichardB]

I interviewed him, along with other Chieftains, for the (London version of) Caribbean Times in the green Room after an RFH concert back in the early 1980s. He had me in fits with his anecdotes, and what a versatile musician!

I've seen the Chieftains twice, and I couldn't hear them properly either time. One time was because they were playing against an impossibly dense collage of field recordings in John Cage's piece based on Finnegans Wake and the other was because I was somewhere in the stratosphere of the RAH and most of their sound had evaporated into reverberation by the time it reached me.

[Bryn]

I've seen the Chieftains twice, and I couldn't hear them properly either time. One time was because they were playing against an impossibly dense collage of field recordings in John Cage's piece based on Finnegans Wake and the other was because I was somewhere in the stratosphere of the RAH and most of their sound had evaporated into reverberation by the time it reached me.

I would contend that the members of the Chieftains were not actually performing as The Chieftains in Roaratorio on Finnegans Wake. My then flute tutor and I chatted with Matt Molloy during a hiatus in the proceedings at the Cage at 70 series of concerts in Islington. He was a pains to point out that while they were from The Chieftans, they were not, in this instance, playing as The Chieftans, regardless of what any promotional material for the event may have said. I seem to recall that the Proms performance of Roaratorio on Finnegans Wake may also have billed the musician of The Chieftans under that name, but again, that is not how they actually performed. At their RFH concert I mentioned, I was fortunate enough to have a freebee stalls ticket and was able to both hear and see them clearly. Bell's antics on stage gave rise to much laughter among the audience, especially when he introduced and played an 'old opry' item, drawing out the links to folk traditions from Ireland in that music.

[RichardB]

I would contend that the members of the Chieftains were not actually performing as The Chieftains in Roaratorio on Finnegans Wake.

That didn't affect their audibility, unfortunately.

[Serial_Apologist]

People here may just be old enough to recall from "Beyond the fringe":

"And now, Dudley Moore continues to play with himself, this time in a setting by Schubert of Schiller's poem "Die Flabberghast", in which the poet and his lover sit down and bemoan... and bemoan... Did Flabberghast".

[smittims]

The subject of this thread has been revived onthe Carter thread, so I thought it might be worth looking at again.

We all have our un-favourite covers. I had to cover-up the Previn Rachmaninov 3rd symphony as I couldn't bear to look at it. And like others, I laughed aloud at that Leinsdorf Phase Four Mahler 1, a real 70s flower-power job.

Some covers would put me off buying the disc, even if I wanted it. John Eliot Gardiner's Bach cantata series featured asiatic fishermen, etc. Perhaps someone could explain to me what that had to do with Bach Cantatas.