London Symphony Orchestra – Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Opus 60 by Antonín Dvořák album art
Cover for a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 In D Major, Opus 60, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Witold Rowicki (1914–1989) and released in the Philips World Series.
The main typeface is Soutache. Originally designed around 1875 by Julius Herriet, Sr. for the Bruce Type Foundry, this Tuscan with ornamental contour was revived in the 1960s as part of VGC’s T.J. Lyons Antique Type Collection. It can here be seen with letterforms that were optically distorted to fit a curved shape. While the letter bodies are printed in color, the contour is added in black. Comstock for Rowicki’s name got the same bichromatic treatment.
Additional fonts in use include Folio extrafett (for “No” and “Symphony Orchestra”, Copperplate Gothic, and, for the blurb at the bottom, Univers. The Philips World Series logo is in Binner, see this previous post.
Zbigniew Jastrzebski provided the illustration with 19 watercolor miniatures arranged in a salon-style hang. The scribbled frames echo Soutache’s contour. No designer is credited for the typography.
