Ron S

Currently making my way through this box: Mozart, String Quartets Nos. 14-19 / String Quintets Nos. 1-6 / Clarinet Quintet Haydn, String Quartet op. 103 Juilliard String Quartet (plus others) (Sony)

Dvorak, Slavonic Dances Charles Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Supraphon)

We could start a whole new thread devoted to examples of bizarre DG covers. 😃 Or not. 😛

Also, in case it wasn't clear, I was being facetious about that weird Karajan cover. 😜

Wait, WHAT??? How can you possibly say that with stunners like this:

Haydn, Symphonies Nos. 93-95, 98, Sinfonia Concertante / Mozart, Symphony No. 25 Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden (Haydn Symphonies) / Vaclav Neumann, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Sinfonia Concertante) / Otmar Suitner, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Mozart Symphony) (Tower Japan/Berlin Classics)

Honegger, Symphonies Nos. 1-5 / Pacific 231 / Pastorale d'ete / Chant de joie Serge Baudo, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Supraphon Japan)

Brahms, String Sextets Nos. 1 and 2 Mandelring Quartet, Roland Glassl (viola II), Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello II) (Audite)

Ravel, Bolero / Alborada del gracioso / La Valse / Daphnis and Chloe (Suite No. 2) / Rapsodie Espagnole Leonard Bernstein, Orchestre National de France (Bolero, Alborada, Valse), New York Philharmonic (Daphnis, Rapsodie) (Sony)

Debussy, String Quartet Ravel, String Quartet Galimir Quartet (Vanguard)

The last time we discussed this was over a decade ago, so I'll expect your offer sometime in the late 2030s.

I think I still have that CD stashed away somewhere, if you'd like to make me an offer. Brand-new, and still factory-sealed. 😃

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 / The Nutcracker--Suite (arranged for two pianos by Nicolas Economou) Martha Argerich (piano), Claudio Abbado/Berlin Philharmonic, Nicolas Economou (piano, Nutcracker Suite) (Deutsche Grammophon)

Haydn, String Quartets op. 17, nos. 1-6 Auryn Quartet (Tacet)

Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 1-6 Tatrai Quartet (Hungaroton)

Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2 / String Quartet No. 1 / Piano Quintet Igor Uryash (piano), St. Petersburg String Quartet (Hyperion)

Beethoven, Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 "Kreutzer" and 5 "Spring" Itzhak Perlman (violin), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) (Decca)

Debussy, String Quartet Ravel, String Quartet Quartetto Italiano (Philips)

Brahms, String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 Takacs Quartet, Lawrence Power (viola) (Hyperion)

Brahms, Piano Trios Nos. 1-3 / Horn Trio Suk Trio, Zdenek Tylsar (horn) (Supraphon/Denon)

Brahms, Piano Quintet Dvorak, Piano Quintet Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Guarneri Quartet (RCA)

Beethoven, The Complete String Quartets Smetana Quartet (Supraphon)

Bartok, Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion Ravel, Ma Mere L'Oye (arranged for 2 pianos and percussion) / Rapsodie espagnole (arranged for 2 pianos and percussion) Martha Argerich (piano), Nelson Freire (piano), Peter Sadlo (percussion), Edgar Guggeis (percussion) (Deutsche Grammopnon)

Haydn, The Paris Symphonies (Nos. 82-87) Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG)

Dvorak, Slavonic Dances Vaclav Neumann, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Supraphon)