Victor Supplement announcing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto

[Lenoirstreetguy]

Here's the cover of the October 1929 Victor supplement. This contains the announcement for Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra doing the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto with the composer at the keyboard. This version would take a very prominent place were I to list my ideas of the greatest recordings of all time so I was interested in finding the announcement of it. Great deco graphic design too.

JRT

[OrthoSean]

That's a nice one!!

Sean

[Henry]

I own the record, Victor album DM-58, rec. April 10/13, 1929, as well as another performance on DM-1075 with Artur Rubenstein and Vladimir Golschmann conducting the NBC Symphony. The performance by Rachmaninoff is definitive; both are masterful.

"Rocky" looks quite modern with that close-cropped haircut, doesn't he?

[Valecnik]

It has a very "thirties" look to it already, doesn't it, especially when compared to the style of the July, August and September supplements (which all look very much like the September supplement below).

Also interesting to note that these Victor supplements were at least 13 or 14 pages while the Edison supplements for August, September and October were just 4 pages, one small piece of paper folded in half and offered just 73, 53, and 16 new titles repectively. See post below for details.

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ent#p39322

[Lenoirstreetguy]

I've always wondered who some of the graphic designers were that did the Victor stuff. Some of it is superb. But to be fair Edison and Columbia had some amazingly fine materials as well. Columbia's best stuff appeared before the first bankruptcy..that is to say before 1923, and Edison by the late twenties was more interested in the radio line. Brunswick had moments, but in general didn't seem to shine as brightly. Their monthly release brochures are not very elaborate. The Victor brochures always charm me because of the wonderful pics of the artists.The exception to this was the period between Oct'26 to early 1929 when they produced those large " art paper" supplements with artist sketches inspired by the performer or the selection. They're pretty, but not nearly as interesting as the brochures illustrated with photographs. ( Incidentally, the "art paper" supplements never appeared in Canada. Victor in Montreal continued producing supplements in the old style, but with a limited repertoire of photos, sadly)
Jim