Kevin Sutton wrote: >Now, if the cover art were actually related to the music, it might be >ok, but Alfred Brendel's mug on an album cover does little to fire me >up for Beethoven. And those awful pics of Murray Perahia on the Sony >Mozart cds....eeeeeeek! I agree with Kevin concerning the Brendel and Perahia covers; only attractive individuals should be on record covers. But then, a person attractive to me might well be disgusting looking to another. Record companies seem to be confident that a "mug" on the cover is a good selling point, particularly if the artist is well known. Even the young Daniel Harding had his photograph on his new Beethoven overtures disc from Virgin Classics. What I don't quite understand is why these photographs are not usually taken with attractive back-drops like a scene of the Grand Canyon. Brendel could be sitting in a helicopter over the Grand Canyon waving to the disc buyers. Better yet, a photograph of Brendel doing a free-fall into the Canyon would likely increase sales two-fold. I'd buy it even if the content was TL (Total Liszt). Don Satz [log in to unmask]