Good, bad and the ugly

摘要

Our feature series on LP sleeve art [see p30] reminded me of former contributor Andrew Keener digging out some awful classical sleeves for a Gramophone expose. One that escaped his notice was World Record Club's extraordinary lapse in taste when reissuing Carlo Maria Giulini's Philharmonia Tchaikovsky Pathetique, reproduced here. (It fared better as a CD in Warner's Gemini series.) The artwork for classical LP covers was the subject of a 2009 hardback authored by Horst Scherg, and now in paperback at Amazon.uk [Classique: Cover Art For Classical Music]. But for those of us collecting vinyl over the years we have our own favourites - and shockers.