Bizarre Album Covers

[Bryn]

Entirely OT, one of my favourite 'unusual' album covers:



and then there's this highly derivative one:

[cloughie]

Entirely OT, one of my favourite 'unusual' album covers:



and then there's this highly derivative one:

Life in the fast lane?

[Flosshilde]

Just think - someone actually spent time devising this.



Makes the time we spend here look positively well-spent

[EdgeleyRob]

I love a fried egg - not with bacon but with dry-fried large, flat mushrooms (you cook them first, then store in a hot oven), chopped hot chillies and tomatoes...

Sounds yummy does that.

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/forum/general-discussion/the-worst-record-covers-ever

[richardfinegold]

Brautigam plays a modern copy. No ivory is likely to have been used.

Surely a charging elephant isn't to much to sacrifice in the name of musical authenticity

[rkyburz]

Perhaps I should try to get these. Do you know what piano he plays in these recordings?

Hi David, sry - missed that thread ...

For all his Mozart sonata and variation recordings, Brautigam plays a Walter fortepiano (1805) — a replica built by Paul McNulty (Amsterdam) in 1992; Walter fortepiani are marvelous instruments, indeed! I don't have CDs of Mozart concerts with Brautigam, so there I can't tell the instrument. For his Beethoven concert recordings (with Andrew Parrot) he uses a modern concert grand (Steinway D). For most Beethoven works for solo piano he also uses Walter instruments, for the late Beethoven he then switches to a Graf replica (1819), and for the earliest works he uses a Stein replica (1788) - all by McNulty.

[Richard Tarleton]

Surely a charging elephant isn't to much to sacrifice in the name of musical authenticity

Let's hope this elephant did not die entirely in vain, and at least provided a few keys.

[Barbirollians]

I find the JEG Bach Cantata CD covers a bit odd - & slightly exploitative, even though they are stock images & not taken especially for the CDs.

But 'irrelevant' images aren't new - was it Ace of Clubs or Eclipse that used pictures of National Trust properties?

Classics for Pleasure had quite a few . I am sure Horenstein's Mahler 4 had a picture of Norfolk on the cover and my old EMI Eminence LPs of Jochum's LSO Beethoven cycle have various Scottish scenes !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Classics for Pleasure had quite a few . I am sure Horenstein's Mahler 4 had a picture of Norfolk on the cover

Did they subsequently change it, Barbs? The only cover I ever saw was this:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2203771

[richardfinegold]

Did they subsequently change it, Barbs? The only cover I ever saw was this:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2203771

Just a few days ago I was doing some cleaning and dug out that very same lp with the same cover from a cabinet (with Mahler on the cover, not Norfolk). The lp is in terrible condition. Regrettably, my searches for a CD recording are showing inordinate prices. Amazon has a used copy for $50 US, and and for the same amount of $ I can buy it as part of a 16 disc EMI Mahler set (which duplicates many other recordings that i already have, such as Barbirolli's 9th.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/Nov01/Mahler4_Horenstein.htm

[richardfinegold]

http://www.musicweb-international.co...Horenstein.htm

Thanks, ferneyhough. I tried navigated the crotchet site to find that recording and could not get the search engine to recognize it, but I really enjoy the exposure to the MusicWeb site that your post has provided, and will probably while away many hours there. In the meantime, I searched the Amazon US site again just looking for the EMI set and found it for $30 US and ordered. I also turned up a CD version of Horenstein's Mathis and Death and Transfiguration for about $3 US, which duplicates another Horenstein lp of mine that is virtually unplayable, so it's been a good morning.

[MickyD]

This one has mystified me ever since it appeared a few years ago - what has a deer in what looks like a multi-storey car park got to do with the Brandenburg Concertos?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Brandenburg-Concertos-Rinaldo-Alessandrini/dp/B000ALCFYI/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1348401632&sr=1-1

[Pabmusic]

This one has mystified me ever since it appeared a few years ago - what has a deer in what looks like a multi-storey car park got to do with the Brandenburg Concertos?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Branden...8401632&sr=1-1

Where else would a deer park in town these days?

[Thropplenoggin]

Just a few days ago I was doing some cleaning and dug out that very same lp with the same cover from a cabinet (with Mahler on the cover, not Norfolk). The lp is in terrible condition. Regrettably, my searches for a CD recording are showing inordinate prices. Amazon has a used copy for $50 US, and and for the same amount of $ I can buy it as part of a 16 disc EMI Mahler set (which duplicates many other recordings that i already have, such as Barbirolli's 9th.

This is something which has infuriated me, too, making me want to scream: "SOMEONE PLEASE RE-RELEASE ALL OF HORENSTEIN'S MAHLER!"

The only solution I have found is to download just that one symphony from the EMI set via Amazon. The Classical Shop have his Mahler 1 and Mahler 3 (Unicorn-Kanchana) to download, but I'm 'old school' and still would rather buy a disc.