Alfred Brendel – Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on May 23rd, 2021. Artwork published in
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The cover for Alfred Brendel’s recording of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies combines a vivacious illustration of a folk dance with equally wild display typography. Weiss is paired with all-caps Crayonette and Saphir. The numbers of the included rhapsodies are set in yet another flamboyant face, Fontanesi. In sum, there’s too much going on. I feel the illustration could shine more with a less eclectic typography. While the cover art is by Frederic Marvin (1932–2013), the overall design is uncredited. It may have been provided by Vanguard’s art director, Jules Halfant.
The back cover is set in Times New Roman, with the title in Bulmer.
