Classical music art departments are terrible, part one zillion. Case in point: the wonderful Antonio Pappano recording of Verdi’s Requiem - cover looks like the poster for a 1983 disaster movie about forest fires.
Whereas in this one, Bernstein is clearly a one-episode Succession character about to be sworn at by Brian Cox

Herbert von Karajan: conductor…and biker?

(And try not to think about where that light at the bottom is emanating from.)

Can’t forget this classic from the austere, restrained Sir Adrian Boult.
Michael Tilson-Thomas and friend.
I….don’t understand anything any more?
@grahamsleight ... wait, so that's *not* Renee Fleming?