Abe Gurvin
Abe Gurvin (Attleboro, Massachusetts, December 31, 1937 - Santa Maria, [Santa Barbara County], California, July 9, 2012) was one of the most prolific and interesting American artists, among the greatest representatives of 'psychedelic art' (which, in San Francisco, it was an evolution of 'groovy' art, and which drew inspiration from the systematic use of LSD). The news about his educational and professional training are totally absent from the websites, while his works are very well known, loved and awarded: he has designed album covers for artists such as Janis Joplin, The Zodiac, Federal Duck and Bread, but the historic series of Nuggets album covers for Elektra, represents an authentic masterpiece that sanctioned, and somehow closed, an extraordinary artistic era
Abe Gurvin's portfolio included advertising work for companies such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Disney, Suzuki, IBM, Marantz, Scholastic, Kenwood, Time-Life Books, Sony Music, and many more. He has received awards from One Show, Communication Arts, New York Art Directors, Best of Show, LA Society of Illustrators, New York Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers and The Belding Award.
We remember some graphic works by Abe Gurvin such as the unforgettable cover of Car & Driver of May 1968, where a psychedelic drawing had been transferred to the hood of a Porches; the collection of drawings for the Casserole Cookbook kitchen, for the Sci-Tech science fiction series and the numerous hand-drawn illustrations for an editorial project of fairy tales (still unpublished today) called I Am Being Me by Ann di Hope.
Abe Gurvin served on the board of directors of SILA (Los Angeles Society of Illustrators); in 1988 Gurvin moved to a mansion in Laguna Beach, California and later to Santa Maria where he died at the age of 74.
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Rivoli official discography
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Mese mariano
Colosseum CLPS 1023
Recording: Milan, 1952
NICCOLÒ PAGANINI
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Ricardo Odnoposoff, violin
Orchestre Symphonique De Radio-Genève
Concert Hall MMS/SMS-2205
Recording: Genève, 1954 circa (first published 1964?)
THE MAGIC VIOLIN • GEIGEM ZAUBER
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise, Op. 83
PABLO DE SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
ERNEST CHAUSSON: Poeme, Op. 25
Ricardo Odnoposoff, violin
Orchestre Symphonique De Radio-Genève
Concert Hall MMS/SMS-2250
Recording: Genève, 1954 circa (first published 1964?)
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Overtures: La scala di seta • Semiramide • La Cenerentola
Il barbiere Di Siviglia • L'Italiana in Algeri • Il signor Bruschino Tancredi
Gianfranco Rivoli
Prestige de la Musique SR-9638
Recording: Genève, 1960 circa
ADOLPHE ADAM
Giselle (Highlights)
Orchestre des concerts de Paris
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall MMS/SMS-2234
Recording: Paris, 1960 circa
PETER I. TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (Highlights)
Orkest van Het Amsterdams Philharmonisch Genootschap
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall MMS/SMS-2237
Rec. Amstedam, 1960 circa
WOLFGANG A. MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K 459
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, K 537
Lili Kraus, Piano
Orkest van Het Amsterdams Philharmonisch Genootschap
Gianfranco Rivoli
Monitor Records MC 2089
recording: Amstedam, 1960 circa
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37
Choral Fantasy Op. 80
Lili Kraus, Piano
Orkest van Het Amsterdams Philharmonisch Genootschap
Koor van Het Amsterdams Philharmonisch Genootschap
Gianfranco Rivoli
Prestige de la Musique SR-9646
recording: Amstedam, 1960 circa (first published 1963?)
GIUSEPPE VERDI
La traviata
Elena Todeschi • Augusto Vicentini • Renato Cesari
Luciana Pio Fumagalli • Paride Venuti • Anna Galli
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Gianfranco Rivoli
2 LPs Concert Hall SMS-2227
Recording: Wien, Staatsoper, 1960 circa
RAFFAELLO DE BANFIELD
Colloquio col tango
Rena Garazioti • Alfredo Bianchini
GIANNI RAMOUS
Orfeo Anno domini MCMXLVII
Irma Bozzi Lucca • Giuseppe Lamacchia • Federico Davià
Orchestra ‘ad hoc’
(probably Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano)
Gianfranco Rivoli
Curci CEMED
(Carosello Edizioni Musicali e Discografiche)
Recording: Milan, 1962 circa
CHARLES GOUNOUD
Faust
Léopold Simoneau • Pierrette Alarie • Heinz Rehfuss
Liliane Berton • Suze Léal • Dominique Weber • Paul Bicos
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Orchester der Wiener Festspiele (Wiener Symphoniker)
Gianfranco Rivoli
4 LPs Festival Classique CFC 60012
Recording: Wien, Bayerische Hofes, 8-12 June 1962
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Messa da Requiem • Te Deum
Gloria Davy • Suze Léal • Glade Peterson • Heinz Rehfuss
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Gianfranco Rivoli
2 LPs Concert Hall SMS-2336
Recording: Wien, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal, 16-17 June 1964
EDVARD GRIEG
Symphonic dances, op. 64
Lyric suite, op. 54
Orchester der Wiener Festspiele (Wiener Symphoniker)
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall SMS-2412
Recording: Wien, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal, 16-17 June 1964
EDVARD GRIEG
Peer Gynt. Suite No. 1, op. 46
Peer Gynt. Suite No. 2, op. 55
Four Norwegian dances, op. 35
Orchester der Wiener Festspiele (Wiener Symphoniker)
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall SMS-2277
Recording: Wien, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal, 16-17 June 1964
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Rigoletto
Licinio Montefusco • Anna Maccianti • Michele Molese
Nedda Casei • Federico Davià • Friedrich Strack
Karl Neugebauer • Susanne Steffan • Karl Setzer
Nikolaus Simkovsky • Anna Vajda
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Gianfranco Rivoli
2 LPs Concert Hall SMS-2371
Recording: Wien, Staatsoper, 1966 circa
BALLET MUSIC FROM OPERAS
GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Guillaume Tell, Act I, Pas de six
GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Guillaume Tell, Act III, Soldiers’ march
GAETANO DONIZETTI: La favorite, Act III, Ballet music
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Les vêpres siciliennes, Act III, Ballet music
GIUSEPPE VERDI, Aida: Act II, Ballabile
Orchester Radio Zürich
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall SMS-25572
Recording: Zürich, 1966 circa
LUDWING VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Nikita Magaloff, Piano
Orchester Radio Zürich
Gianfranco Rivoli
Concert Hall SMS-2536
Recording: Zürich, June 1967
FRANCISCO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
La Spinalba, ovvero il vecchio matto
Ugo Benelli • Otello Borgonovo • Romana Righetti
Lydia Marimpietri • Laura Zanini • Rena Garazioti
Teodoro Rovetta • Fernando Serafim
laus von Wildemann, harpsichord
Orquestra de Câmara Gubelkian
Gianfranco Rivoli
3 LPs Philips 839710/12 LY
Recording: Salão Nobra da Reitoria da
Universidade de Lisboa, 22 May - 2 June 1966
ANTÓNIO LEAL MOREIRA
Sinfonia à due orchestre in D major
ANTÓNIO CLAUDIO DA SILVA PEREIRA
Sinfonia in D major
MARCÓS PORTUGAL
Sinfonia in D major
ANONYMOUS
Harpsichord Concerto in D major
JOÃO DE SOUSA CARVALHO
Overture from Penelope
Cremilde Rosado Fernandes, harpsichord
Orquestra de Câmara Gubelkian
Gianfranco Rivoli
Archiv 198 481
Recording: Salão Nobra da Reitoria da
Universidade de Lisboa, 9-12 January 1969
JOÃO PEDRO DE ALMEIDA MOTA
La passione di Gesù Cristo
Luisa Bosabalian • Fernando Serafim
Benjamin Luxon • Richard Angas
Cremilde Rosado Fernandes, harpsichord
Coro e Orquestra de Câmara Gubelkian
Gianfranco Rivoli
3 LPs Archiv 2710 009
Recording: Salão Nobra da Reitoria da
Universidade de Lisboa, 8-16 January 1969
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Christiane Eda-Pierre • Marco Stecchi • Luigi Alva
Andrew Foldi • Alessandro Maddalena • Nadine Denize
Henri Bodini • François Angeli
Antoine Gil, guitar
Chœurs De L’Opéra De Monte-Carlo
Orchestre National De L’Opéra De Monte-Carlo
Gianfranco Rivoli
3 LPs Concert Hall – SMS 2688
Rec: Salle Garnier, Monte-Carlo, 29 June - 3 July 1970
ARIE DEL PRIMO OTTOCENTO
GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Tancredi, ‘Come è dolce all’alma mia’
GAETANO DONIZETTI: Lucrezia Borgia, ‘Com’è bello,
quale incanto’ • GAETANO DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor, ‘Regnava nel silenzio’ • VINCENZO BELLINI: I Capuleti e I Montecchi, ‘Eccomi in lieta... Oh quante volte’ • VINCENZO BELLINI: La sonnambula, ‘Ah, non credea mirarti’
GIUSEPPE VERDI: La traviata, ‘È strano... Sempre libera
Silvana Bocchino, soprano
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Gianfranco Rivoli
Fonit Cetra LPO 2002
Recording: Auditorium di Torino della RAI, 1974
OMAGGIO A MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana, ‘Intermezzo’
Cavalleria Rusticana, ‘Voli lo sapete, o mamma’
I Rantzau, ‘Pel nostro amor’ • I Rantzau, ‘Intermezzo’
Zanetto, ‘Senti bambino... No, non andar da Silvia
Nerone, ‘Non danzare sull’orlo dell’abisso’ • Nerone, ‘Nè tu possa mai risvegliarti’ • Parisina, ‘Sono carica d’oro... Bene morrò d’amore’ • Parisina, ‘Commessa fu la mia colpa’
Parisina, ‘La notte ha la sua via
Maria Helenita Olivares, soprano
Český Symfonický Orchestr, Prahy (FOK)
Gianfranco Rivoli
CBS 73537
Recording: Praha, Domovina Studio, Autumn 1975
ITALIAN OPERA ARIAS
GAETANO DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale, ‘Povero Ernesto...
Cercherò Iontana terra’ • GAETANO DONIZETTI: L’elisir d’amore, ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ • GAETANO DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor, ‘Tombe degli
avi miei... Fra poco a me ricovero’
GIUSEPPE VERDI : Luisa Miller, ‘Oh, fede negar... Quando le sere al placido’
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Don Carlos, ‘Io l’ho perduta’
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Rigoletto, ‘La donna è mobile’
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Il trovatore, ‘Ah sì, ben mio’ • GIACOMO PUCCINI:
La Bohème, ‘Che gelida manina’ • GIACOMO PUCCINI: Tosca, ‘Recondita armonia’ • GIACOMO PUCCINI: Tosca, ‘E lucevan le stelle’ • GIACOMO PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut, ‘Donna non vidi mai’
FRANCESCO CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur, ‘La dolcissima effigie’
Jaime Aragall, Tenor
Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona
Gianfranco Rivoli
Alhambra - SCE 980 / London OS264997
Recording: Barcelona, 1976
