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NewsIn the bottom righthand corner, is that the trout?
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— Daniel Höhr 🇺🇦 (@danhoehrpiano) May 8, 2022
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No, the bottom righthand corner indicates “Poules et coqs”.
My Ansermet recording of Le Sacre (London LP CM 9207) features a topless woman being lifted by a bearded guy on the cover.
That was the mono record. When they issued it in stereo, the woman was discreetly draped.
Ridiculous.
I would basically agree.
But this CD was published in a series called “Queer Musik”.
In today’s climate, disliking this cover could mean that you are an intolerant homophobe.
‘Queer Musik’ does not exist. It is very difficult to be intolerant towards something that only exists in other people’s minds.
No doubt Tchaikovsky would have appreciated this cover – and possibly Saint-Saëns and Schubert as well.
Best comment ever!
Impossible that Saint-Saëns, the picture of 19C respectability, who even slept in a 3-part suit and deerleather boots, would have appreciated such reckless sun bathing on a public rendering of his Animal Carnival. Even on the occasion that he performed some pliés on top of a coffee table during a musician’s party, his tutu was decently and firmly closed to the chin.
I don´t see Dalila…
If it is a trout, then it’s a very small one.
A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
Haha very good
I can’t think of what else it could be.
A conger?
Just a sardine.
Eine Queerflöte?
Don’t go giving Currentzis ideas…
I remember this CD from the 1990s, and believe it or not, back in the late 20th century, whether Schubert, and his music, were gay, was a serious academic subject and cultural debate.
From the very serious NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-was-schubert-gay-if-he-was-so-what-debate-turns-testy.html
“the “Unfinished” Symphony had been analyzed to show its possible homosexual character by the feminist musicologist Susan McClary… in attempting to interpret the “Unfinished” Symphony as homosexual program music … she spoke of “casual pleasures and encounters” in the music, “beautifully wrought cadential unions” and passages in which the theme “yields up its rigid sense of identity.” She found the music “purposeful, ingenious and liberatory” and compared its style to contemporary gay literature.”
Betcha didn’t know that’s why you subconsciously so enjoyed Schubert’s 8th symphony, huh? ; )
Mrs McClary has created for herself a ridiculous name with her suggestive quasi-research.
For those interested, the CD was published by a German company in 1997.
Quick, rush!
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I could accept this cover for:
Strauss “Heldenleben”,
Tchaikovsky “Nutcracker”,
Bliss “A Colour Symphony”,
Mahler “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”.
Britten: “Death in Venice”
Mussorgsky: “Picture of an Exhibitionist”
Elgar’s Wand of Youth?
Elgar’s Cockaigne?
Saint-Saens: “Organ Symphony”
I always had suspicions about that piece.
Sally
It was the days befor Napster Youtube and Spotify when you have to buy to hear. There was a market for this kind of record not very prestigious concerning the marketing and i suppose not very expensive. Artisticly I dont know. I’am not english and I have to say that i never heard or read about this orchestra.
A lot of people here don’t know “Die Forelle” very well. It’s not the trout. It’s “die Rute”.