Len
I was interested to read in his fair and favourable review of the Bostridge/Vogt Schwanengesang Simon Thompson's complaint about the glued-in booklet. I share that dislike, but also confess to a more superficial complaint.
The cover is bloody awful. In fact, all the Bostridge Schubert on Pentatone have had such butt-ugly covers, that I delayed ordering them until recently. I'm glad I did eventually buy them because they are very fine - but why would a record company choose such an off-putting set of images - ones which seem to me to trivialise the contents?
You can take my comments with a grain of salt, perhaps: having grown up in 1970s I still consider Roger Dean and Hipgnosis to be the paragons of record cover artists - but seriously, in a time of declining sales for physical media, couldn't companies make at least some effort to inspire enthusiasm in the look of their product?
OK - rant over.
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