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The Philadelphia Orchestra – Liszt: Les Préludes / Brahms: Variations On A Theme By Haydn album art

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler. Imported from Flickr on Feb 27, 2021. Artwork published in .
The Philadelphia Orchestra – Liszt: Les Préludes / Brahms: Variations On A Theme By Haydn album art
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Cover of an album recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, in honor of their 50th season, featuring Brahms: Variations On A Theme By Haydn and Liszt: Les Préludes. Released in 1949 in the Masterworks series by Columbia Records.

The design by Alex Steinweiss contrasts the static Onyx with the famous “Steinweiss Scrawl”. “Long playing microgrove nonbreakable record” is set in News Gothic Condensed.

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