A couple more from the RCA Red Seal Collections are Wagner's Ring from
Dresden under Janowski, recorded digitally in 1982-3 (including a young
and unmannered Jessye Norman as Sieglinde), and a boxed set of Mozart
piano sonatas with deLarrocha; it also appears some of the Gunther Wand
performances of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bruckner & Schubert may be
repackaged for future release in this series.

 From what I've seen and heard so far, these are impressive packages,
complete, consistent in performance quality, and sounding good--in some
cases, better than the originals.  The Ring contains a 92-page booklet
of multilingual notes and summaries, but lacks a libretto.  Interesting,
too, about the origins of some of these recordings; I believe the Masur
Bruckner cycle comes from VEB sessions for Eurodisc--not RCA.  And, in
my opinion, this budget Previn Vaughn-Williams cycle leapfrogs RCA's
later full-price set by Slatkin and the Philharmonia.  But, then, I
always thought that the LSO Vaughn Williams and Shostakovich sessions
caught Previn at his best.

Bear in mind that the Davis/LSO Sibelius set is less than 10 years old,
and, at the Collections price, represents a solid value (as does the
Ring at $5 a CD).  You might want to consider some of these boxes if
you have some post-Christmas funds to spend.

Dick Claeys