We are told that Philips used the 1967 Gotterdammerung as the basis for their complete Bohm Ring cycle, but they may well have used this performance as a back-up. There are a few things to pick at here. Elsa Cavelti's Second Norn is vocally mediocre. Modl doesn't have a lot of voice left for Waltraute, yet it doesn't matter: she could speak the entire narrative (she almost does) and be just as effective. Greindl too is past his vocal best, but his leering, evil Hagen is perhaps even more creepy than it was in past cycles.Nilsson predictably gives us some stunning high notes (the top C at the end of the Dawn duet is held out as long as Wagner wrote it). Her adrenaline gets the better of her in the second act and some of her high notes fly a sharp. She is still magnificent and very human. Her screams at the end of Act One are blood-curdling! Windgassen remains a great Siegfried who manages both of his written top Cs with skill. Stewart and Dvorakova make Gunther and Gutrune real people. Gutrune's short, but important monologue towards the end of Act Three is cut from this performance as it was the previous year. It would be restored the next year. Bohm's leadership remains impressive. The sound is basically very good, but there is another performance audible during the orchestral interlude between the two scenes of Act One and even during Waltraute's scene, irritating during quiet moments. A worthy conclusion to a fine cycle!