Music: Flagstad at 62

For four years Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad has given only charity concerts, insists that she is a ''private person." But her voice is more public than ever—on records. After it became known in 1954 that (with her consent) His Master's Voice sound engineers had called on Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to dub in two high Cs that Flagstad was unable to hit in Tristan und Isolde, Flagstad could not be lured before a microphone for nearly two years. But since then she has signed up with London Records, made 23 LPs, including a complete...

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