I wander what so weird inside the leaflet?
Drawings of the following:
a silhouette of Brahms (in blue on red background)
a boot (in yellow on white)
another boot (in slightly lighter yellow on white)
a pistol (in red on white)
a pair of leggings (also in yellow on white)
and the following quotes:
"Imagine a man who would shoot himself, who has no other choice." Johannes Brahms (1868)
"And you should use an image of the front cover of head with a gun! That is how you should imagine the music! I will send you my own photo to be used! You should also use a blue tailcoat, yellow trousers and top boots; it seems to me that you love color images." Brahms to the editor Fritz Simrock (1875)
"Brahms had a horrible problem with women [with Clara Schumann]." Editor's comment [Stefan Winter}
That's it.
Seems perfectly normal to me.
It's a fantastic disc, isn't it? As far removed from Brahms the comfortable warm overcoat which somebody in a newspaper somewhere this week remarked on reviewing a concert but I can't remember which concert or where or who was reviewing it but the usual thing and I'm not sure why or where I read it but I did.
Spun tonight:
Beethoven op. 69 and 102/2 'cello sonatas (Peter Wispelwey/Paul Komen)
Kagel, Music for Renaissance Instruments (Brugense Collegium Instrumentale)
Froberger, Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche (Bob van Asperen)
