Ludwig van

This splendid package is a four CD recording of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas performed by Alexander Melnikov on piano and Isabelle Faust on violin. The french label Harmonia Mundi often uses quite inventive packaging, and this is one of their best, the whole thing folding out into a cross, revealing each CD one by one. Maybe I just like it because I'm a sucker for the physical item: even though I listen to most of my music on the computer, I prefer to buy a CD and rip it to my hard drive rather than downloading it.

As for the picture, that is a result of me playing around with various GIMP settings in the small hours of the morning.