5 JANUARY 1968, page 17

Best Of 1967

RECORDS EDWARD BOYLE The new complete Decca Elektra (SET/MET 354-5), conducted by Solti, can be confidently recommended both to admirers of Richard Strauss and to opera-lovers......

The Muddle Is The Message Arts

PENELOPE HOUSTON The Americans are today's Nazis,' says some- one in Far from Vietnam (Paris-Pullman, 'A'). The emotive, loaded comparisons pile up be- tween Spanish civil war......