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I was looking at this LP, just now and thought that there were rather few album sleeves like this one, just a landscape.

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But I expect you'll all show me I'm wrong.

MG

Used to be a staple in classical LP covers. Pastoral Symphony, etc, etc ...

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Even I have one in my catalog:

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Nice! It's kind of like the Blue Note LT sleeves.

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Used to be a staple in classical LP covers. Pastoral Symphony, etc, etc ...
put me in mind of this lovely LP, that I used to have back in the days when I thought I could afford black music and white music.

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MG

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This was the second classical LP I bought back in 1974 (a Sibelius 5 in the same series was the first). Always liked the scenes on the front of those covers that seemed to evoke the music.

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Not sure if this counts - there might be two people in the boat. Another one where cover and content were a perfect match.

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I got most of my (rather limited) enjoyment of painting from those big classical LP sleeves.

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I was fascinated by the Mahler Kubelik series made up of sections of Klimt works - sometimes from works with people but you'd never know that from the cover.

(I remember that Gerontius LP - though I ended up with the Boult version. I also had that RVW LP pictured earlier.)

This was another favourite:

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And, from a bit further afield, another one of my early purchases:

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The only thing I miss about LPs is those 12 x 12 sleeves.

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This was the second classical LP I bought back in 1974 (a Sibelius 5 in the same series was the first). Always liked the scenes on the front of those covers that seemed to evoke the music.

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Different music evoked by different scene.

Wasn't it Mingus who said that classical music depicts the world as it should be; jazz depicts it as it is? :rolleyes:

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