Stokowski Conducts Russian Masterpieces album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Scan: Nick Sherman. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

Front of the box

PLINC Belwe (Sample unavailable)

This four-LP compilation box set with recordings of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977) was released by the International Preview Society in 1986.

For Stokowski’s name, the uncredited designer chose Green Buzzard D, the open style of Norman Green’s 1970 set of elaborately ornamented Art Deco caps, and gave the letterforms a multicolored fill.

“Russian Masterpieces” is in Letraset’s Dynamo Medium, with “conducts” in bold italic caps from Steile Futura. The label name is in Filmotype Yale.

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Detail showing the chromatic treatment of Green Buzzard D

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Back of the box. Composer names are in caps from Dynamo Medium, with initials from Green Buzzard C. The titles are set in PLINC Belwe, which is distinguished from Letraset’s Belwe by a number of design details, including the wavy A bar, an S without top serif, and a flat-roofed T. There are more differences in the lowercase.

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The front cover of the booklet has the same typefaces as the front cover, here in black and white.

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Back cover of the booklet, with text set in Times.

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