Recordings

January, 1973

Holiday cheer for the ears. Here is a sackful of multiple-LP albums for Christmas giving and getting. First for the "heavy" stuff. Seraphim has dipped into the Angel catalog and come up with The Seraphim Guide to the Classics, a ten-LP slipcased set that runs from the Middle Ages through Bartók, Berg and Boulez. The performances are marked by the usual high standards of those artists recording under the Angel label. A less ambitious but no less satisfying project is A Baroque Festival,...