Liner notes - then and now

Well I mean liner notes vs LP back of the sleeve notes. I'm in the midst of copying some of my old LPs to digital using a Denon DP 200 direct to mp3 (yes I know, non-free lossy formats!). Just this evening I've copied some Lutosławski (cond Rowicki), Brahms (clarinet quartet with Keith Puddy and the Gabrieli) and the Debussy sonatas (various performers ) and looking at the notes, there is no word about the performers (apart from their names)!
How things have changed, the balance has swung to the other extreme (far too far), but it is an interesting to view the notes with all the emphasis on the works with the performers almost incidental.

Another cafe to cross off the list

Obviously the message is - don't become too eminent a scientist - Matthew Norman the Guardian's restaurant critic eats at Time & Space at the Royal Institution and reviews it in today's paper. 1/10:

By any other catering standard operated throughout time and space - and that includes the convict ship USS Scurvy orbiting Emetic Majora in the Intergalactic Famine Wars of the 39th century - it is an abomination of a very rare order indeed.

They seem to be finding the bad ones this year!

don't tell classic fm listeners!

Paul Padillo writes:

In my “research” someone asked me if I’d ever heard this “phenomenon” live. Of course I couldn’t have only having just learned of her, so I was directed me to a number of live performances. Let me say this: for anyone who has not heard this gal live, you simply MUST. As saccharine sweet as her albums come off there is nothing of that sound when Ms. Jenkins sings live. The difference is more than night and day, it’s more like Spaghetti and Venus.

.. on a certain 'mezzo'