Traditions (The Welsh Gold Collection)

Inside the image.

A square cover combines a broad horizontal scenic montage with a tall gold-coloured panel overlapping its left side. The montage runs across the middle of the image, from the left edge to a rounded right end. Its left portion shows a pale green and brown landscape beneath a blue sky; at the centre, bright white and yellow light falls across what appears to be a stage or interior with vertical lines; the right portion is dark blue and violet, with a large stringed instrument and a suggestion of another instrument or equipment near the lower edge. The separate fragments meet in a soft, atmospheric blend rather than a single sharply defined scene. The rounded corners are most apparent at the right end, which is outlined by a dark border.

The gold panel sits in the foreground, near the upper-left corner, and extends down almost to the bottom edge of the montage. It has rounded corners, a dark outline and shadow, and a softly mottled surface that shifts from olive and brown at the top to luminous yellow-green below. Its large title is set in pale lettering, with “The” above “Welsh” and “Gold” and “Collection” in smaller capitals beneath. A dark line drawing of a dragon-like creature spreads across the middle. Below it, smaller dark lettering reads “FROM WALES / TO THE WORLD - / FOLK MUSIC / AT ITS BEST”; still smaller lines at the bottom appear in Welsh. Some of this fine text is difficult to make out at this scale.

Behind the panel, the word “TRADITIONS” appears in tall, condensed blue capitals across the upper middle, on a white ground. The gold panel obscures part of its left side. A thin blue strip is visible along the top of the scenic montage, while the rest of the cover is largely white. The image mixes photographic-looking landscape and performance imagery with prominent graphic typography and an emblematic line drawing. The montage is softly focused and dark in places, while the title panel and blue heading have crisper edges.