Wilson Pereira <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>The LP cover showed a little man (the Sultan) with his arms raised
>pointing to a girl (Scheherazade) who was flying in a disc or in a
>flying carpet (I don't remember
>
>I suspect that it was Sir Thomas Beecham recording for EMI.

It is many years now since I have seen it biut as I recall it the original
Beecham cover was white surround with a painting of the Bakst set.  Not as
you describe.

Len