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In Reply to: RE: Thursday spins: Decca US pressings posted by user510 on August 27, 2015 at 11:12:59
Great find. That's not just "pretty good small ensemble music", it's Mozart's wonderful E-flat divertimento, one of his greatest chamber music works.
Another interesting aspect of that LP is the cover, designed like many Decca covers by Swiss graphic designer and artist Erik Nitsche. One of Nitsche's mentors was the great Swiss modern painter Paul Klee, who was a friend of his parents.
Some collectors look down their noses at American Decca, but that's a mistake imvho. A lot of great music and great album covers. Sure, many Deccas are reissues of early DG LPs, and perhaps are not as good sounding, but Erik Nitsche's covers win hands down over DG's boring early covers.
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That cover art really does stand out. I'm thinking it would be nice to have it as a wall hanging. I wonder if the original painting might be larger in size. (just thinking out loud) As it is I can always put this in an album picture frame. I keep those around.
I think the performance of this music offers nothing to complain about. At least not from my(layman's)perspective. And the music itself is entirely pleasing to hear.
While the sound quality does have presence I must also note that it sounds like an older recording.
-Steve
Yes, you could frame your album cover. Don't count on finding or buying the original, though, I've not seen one for sale. A quick check of ebay does show some nice posters and magazine covers and ads by him for mostly reasonable prices.
Below is more of his work.
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