Kar-Ming Chong wrote:

>(3) Britten - War Requiem - composer - Decca - simple yet effective

Essentially this was a reproduction of the front cover of the published
edition of the score.  In his memoirs John Culshaw tells of the battle he
had with the Decca art department.  Some of the young guys and girls there
had come up with angels flying over battlefields and such like.

Tony Duggan,  England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html