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Donald Satz stated:
>EMI is to be congratulated for providing Martha Argerich with a string of
>4 ugly cd covers: the Prokofiev/Bartok disc, the Chopin Legendary disc,
>the Chopin piano concerto disc, and the new Beethoven/Franck recording.
>Colors range from blah to nothing.
See the November issue of BBC Music Magazine for an article on the worst
CD covers ever. Particular favorites are an RCA disc of MTT playing
Villa-Lobos, on which the conductor is shot in the Brazilian jungle (and
should be, according to author Paul Lay), a Koch Schwann recording which
may or may not be Shostakovich quartets (kinda difficult to tell) and a
DGG Tchaikovsky 4, 5 and 6 on the cover of which the percussion section
launches a series of flying Doric columns at the unsuspecting audiences.
Contrast these with Naxos and Hyperion covers, which I nearly always find
to be apposite and interesting.
Tim Mahon
Alexandria, VA
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