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Tschaikowsky “Pathetique” Symphony on HALO Records. (Thanks to Mona Lisa)
(28 votes, average: 2.71 out of 5)
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(28 votes, average: 2.71 out of 5) Loading ...Heads up
Another example of classical music pandering from Westminster Records. Beethoven and Barenboim and a busty babe!
(57 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Devil dog
I love crazy classical music covers. Like a desperate attempt to market “serious” music with jackets that might appeal to a larger audience of regular, simple folks. For example, here’s some guy in a devil costume with a hot dog on a record of overtures by Offenbach, Rossini and others. Thanks ABC Westminster.
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Antill: “Corroboree” (Suite from Ballet) Sir Eugene Goosens Conducting The London Symphony Orchestra. Evererst Stereo.
(33 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5) Loading ...Suites for my sweet
Tchaikowsky on the Brazilian Masterpiece label. The International Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Alexandre Schnederhann.
“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry… As the poet Heine said, ‘Where words leave off, music begins.’ ” Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky
(42 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5) Loading ...Cover girl: Julie Newmar
“Sleepy Beauty Ballet” on Hollywood Records. Fifties pin-up fave and TV idol villian — Cat Woman, Julie Newmar.
(54 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5) Loading ...Phoenix rising
Firebird by Igor Stravinsky performed by Rias Symphony Orchestra. “Exciting, Exultant Mood Music”
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Classical gas
Bud Herrmann “Pops” the Classics on the 97 Key Bosendorfer (a piano).” Is Bud being ironic here? Grandiose? Fatalistic?
(21 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5) Loading ...Koi’s interuptus
Cover image by the great photographer Paul Huf (1924- 2002) of Holland. Design by Van Borssum. Phillips Favourite Series. The woman is Huf’s muse and singular model for all the covers in the series – British model Ann Pickford.
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