Don Wrote: >I'm not personally negative about the photo; I find it appealing, very >appealing. But, I do feel that it's in the cause of purient interest (I've >got plenty of that), and I assume that the motivation of DG is to "sell" >Mutter not only as one of our outstanding violinists, but also as a very >"hot/accessible" chick. What do you folks think of this approach? Certainly not the first nor last time such a marketing gimmick has been attempted (wasn't there a well-built pianist who posed with his shirt off for a cover some years back?) The marketing of classical music has taken a nose dive in worse ways - whether selling Mozart as an IQ booster or the proliferation of canned anthologies in the "Music for your Moods" vein - Classical as ambience music - "Hey, it's Beethoven as George Winston!" Expect worse if sales of classical CDs continue to lose market share. "Chris L Beckwith" <[log in to unmask]>