I was rather startled on loading a new CD into the player tonight to
see the words 'Mahler - Symphony no 9' scroll across the display on the
front.  Not because the CD wasn't Mahler 9 - it's the newly released BBC
Legends recording of the work conducted by Maderna - but because no CD
has ever done this for us before.  The tempo indication at the beginning
of each movement was also displayed.  Our CD player is about 3 years
old.  So I ask: have classical CDs only very recently started including
this information in a form that a CD player can read?  Or have we just
happened not to buy any that had it?  We buy quite a lot of CDs, but
many of them are I suppose not new remasterings or pressings.

Virginia Knight
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