[20centrfuge]

This is a challenge to come up with the program/concept for a classical music album and to pair it with art or photography that could serve as an album cover. Don't borrow from an existing album!

--Album Title
--Name your piece(s)
--Provide an image of what would serve as cover art

Thoughts: Will you include lesser known works alongside well known works? All new music? If you were to suggest your concept to a recording label, how successful do you think it might be?

Have FUN!!!!

 

[Bettina]

Somewhere Else: Music Inspired by Travel

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Saint-Saëns: Suite Algérienne
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Gershwin: An American in Paris

My cover image will be a map of discovery:

As you can all see from my "track listing," I've chosen a set of well-known crowd pleasers, so that my CD will sell well! :lol:

 

[Pugg]

Somewhere Else: Music Inspired by Travel

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Saint-Saëns: Suite Algérienne
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Gershwin: An American in Paris

My cover image will be a map of discovery:

As you can all see from my "track listing," I've chosen a set of well-known crowd pleasers, so that my CD will sell well! :lol:

That is quick, I am still thinking how on earth can I make cover without photo shop.

 

[Bettina]

That is quick, I am still thinking how on earth can I make cover without photo shop.

I don't have photo shop either, so I settled on a decidedly low-tech approach: I simply posted the title and track listing up above my image, instead of trying to put them on top of the image itself.

 

[Pugg]

I don't have photo shop either, so I settled on a decidedly low-tech approach: I simply posted the title and track listing up above my image, instead of trying to put them on top of the image itself.

My brains are cracking, watch this space.

 

[20centrfuge]

I've been constantly ear-worming some Prokofiev Sonatas for Piano. They are some soul searching works with elements of darkness, light, mischief, hope, and sheer energy

Pieces: Prokofiev Piano Sonatas 4 and 8

Artwork: this painting by the Russian painter, Jawlensky (from about the same era as Prokofiev), embodies the energy and different moods of the music. The direct stare of the woman forces you to confront her, pay attention to her, try to understand her. She is almost a mask, so it will take some work on your part. She is not shy but she is irresistible just like the music!

 

[20centrfuge]

Somewhere Else: Music Inspired by Travel

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Saint-Saëns: Suite Algérienne
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Gershwin: An American in Paris

My cover image will be a map of discovery:

As you can all see from my "track listing," I've chosen a set of well-known crowd pleasers, so that my CD will sell well! :lol:

I LOVE the concept! This could so easily be expanded into a box set with Asia and other destinations. This could be a major seller.

 

[Art Rock]

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This disc has got to be on your Christmas wishlist this year. The Italian neo-classical formation Connexon from Naples have taken twenty Ambrosian and Gregorian chants, and transformed them to instrumentals of stunning and consistent high quality. Bassoons, oboes and flutes take over the major vocal lines, with the three violins, viola and cello providing a suitable aural backdrop. Original and fascinating. And essential.

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I know, this (completely imaginary album of an imaginary group) is not what you had in mind. I wanted to post it anyway.

Link.

 

[Xaltotun]

Dürer's engravings have been underused in CM album covers. They're pretty dark and serious, so they're probably not what the "masses" who buy CM CD's are accustomed to. Heck, there are a lot of heavy metal albums with Dürer engraving as covers! But I'm sure there is some German music with undertones of darkness and seriousness that could use those! Just look at many Brahms covers, there's flowers and all kinds of soft and beautiful and delicate things. Sure, the music of Brahms has all that. But it also has a lot more! So there's conceptual space for different kinds of covers!

Beethoven's string quartets could use Melencolia I.
Brahms' piano trios, quartets and quintet could use Knight, Death and the Devil.
Franz Schmidt's Das Buch Mit Sieben Siegeln could use any leaf from the Apocalypsis cum figuris series.
Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht could use St. Jerome in his study.
Mahler's 8th symphony could use Apollo with the solar disc.
Brahms' Schicksalslied could use Apollo and Diana.

etc.!

 

[WaterRat]

A femme fatale theme, supplemented by sufficiently spikey music by Berg.

Astronomy meets astrology in a Stockhausen musical universe.

Miro compliments Prokofiev in tone and mood.

 

[Portamento]

A few that I wish were out there:

Niels Viggo Bentzno: Complete Symphonies

Florent Schmitt: Mass

Revol Bunin: Complete Symphonies

Richard Stöhr: Complete Piano Sonatas

Record companies - it would be a dream to see these CDs become a reality.

 

[jdec]

Here we go.........

 

[20centrfuge]

Here we go.........

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I can't stop laughing!!!! :lol:

 

[brianvds]

These works have always struck me as wondrously colourful, like music written with fireworks rather than notes. Chagall is perhaps an appropriate choice for album art then...

 

[brianvds]

Hey, surely we're not going to let this thread die...

Artwork: Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) - Maria watching the fish.

 

[20centrfuge]

I'm unfamiliar with Sorolla. That painting is wonderful and seems a perfect choice to pair with Debussy.

 

[jim prideaux]

this thread is really impressive.....use of Miro and Chagall seem really appropriate....just wish I could do the technical bit and design my own albums (use of that word shows my age!)

 

[Tallisman]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[brianvds]

I'm unfamiliar with Sorolla. That painting is wonderful and seems a perfect choice to pair with Debussy.

I'm a fan of Sorolla's work. So let's have more Debussy combined with more Sorolla:

 

[techniquest]

Here are some of mine...