Recordings

January, 1974

Despite the gimmicks and the gewgaws that pop up at Christmastime as just the gift you've been looking for, multiple-LP albums still rate five stars for yule giving--or getting. If your Christmas bonus runneth over, you might feel like splurging on Philips' four-album, 16-LP packaging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle recorded at Bayreuth during the 1966 and 1967 seasons. The conductor is Karl Böhm: some of the principal singers are Birgit Nilsson, Kurt Böhme and Leonie Rysanek, and the...