Christmas Cantata / A Ceremony of Carols album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Dec 26th, 2025. Artwork published in
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First released by Supraphon in Czechoslovakia in 1966, this is the cover of the 1967 issue by Crossroads, a short-lived subsidiary of Epic Records. The A-side has twelve carols composed by Benjamin Britten and performed by the Prague Radio Children’s Chorus. Arthur Honegger’s Christmas Cantata on the B-side features the Czech Philharmonic Chorus and the Kühn Children’s Chorus.
The illustrated orchestra of Santas is by Cooper Union graduate Sandy Hoffman. Art director Sid Maurer combined (too) tightly spaced Solemnis, a festive uncial by Günter Gerhard Lange for Berthold (1953), with caps from Stymie Black, Morris F. Benton’s sturdy slab for ATF (1935).
