Best looking CD/LP for sleeve & artwork

[Symphonic Addict]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pettersson's 13th:

This one is the dark horse.  Pettersson himself was not satisfied with it, but people that don't like Pettersson's style might REALLY like this symphony.  It is complex and multi-faceted.  It makes no use of the motif that he usually builds themes out of.  It is varied in tone and style.  Wandering from dissonant, nearly atonal to neoclassical in conception. There are passages of neoromantic angst, but also waltz's, quotes of Rossini.  It is a wild ride and the kind of experimental work that I would expect from Schnittke instead of Pettersson.

[Symphonic Addict]

[Peter Power Pop]

What a gorgeous photo.

[vandermolen]

I like this one very much -
'Man wearing bowler hat feeding seagulls by the Thames':

[vandermolen]

An old favourite - especially relevant after watching 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1938 version) late last night on DVD:

[vandermolen]

Always liked this one:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

An old favourite - especially relevant after watching 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1938 version) late last night on DVD:

The one with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce? 

PD

[vandermolen]

The one with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce? 

PD

Indeed! My favourite version.

[Irons]

Many good Billy the Kid covers. Two of my favourites.

[Spotted Horses]

During the "4D" era in the early 1990s, someone at Deutsche Grammophon really cared about cover art and selected some of the most consistently striking images any label has done (in my opinion). I know some are reproductions of pre-existing art, but at least a few of them are originals commissioned by the label.

To make up for the awful audio, I suspect.

[Irons]

An image that connects with the music.

[Symphonic Addict]

[Irons]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I like your cover better than mine.  I have a 3-CD set with the Talich (numbering is changed a bit--starting with 5's rather than 9's.  I can't find one of that same CD, but you can see how they changed things around a bit.  Well, I was going to share an image with you but can't!  In any event, the painting is reduced and just in the bottom half of the cover and only showing the hands.  In the upper left-hand corner is a photo showing the heads of the musicians.

The other two CDs are in a similar style.

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Always liked this one:

The RCA logo looks cool too.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Seiji Ozawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Well damn, this is a REALLY good recording. Absolutely stellar, virtuosic playing from the whole orchestra, especially the winds and brass, and overall a really big, expansive sound. I found this at a local record shop today, glad I picked it up. Now I'm very curious to hear more of Ozawa's recordings in Chicago from the '60s, as well as some of Jean Martinon's recordings, Martinon of course being music director in Chicago during the same period that Ozawa was conducting a lot of his earliest recordings there.

[vers la flamme]

I was drawn to the album cover as well. I wonder if that's the Art Institute of Chicago.

[KevinP]

Not saying it isn't, but I don't recall it ever being that green before.