Opera, Opera Excerpts, Mussorgsky (composer)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier

John Tomlinson (Boris), Stuart Kale (Prince Shuisky), Clive Bayley (Varlaam), Joan Rodgers (Xenia), Susan Parry (Feodor), Yvonne Howard (Old Nurse), Matthew Best (Pimen) Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue

Berit Lindholm, Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Alexander Young, Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Band of the Grenadier Guards, John Alldis Choir, Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski

Artur Rodzinski

Artur Pizarro (piano)

Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Dmitrij Kitajenko

Idil Biret (piano)

Robert Shaw Chorale, Royal Opera House, Accademia St Cecilia & Vienna State Opera

London Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch

Howard Shelley (piano)

Volgograd Symphony Orchestra, Edward Serov

Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)

David Oistrakh (violin), Gabriel Tacchino (piano), Frederick Guthrie (bass), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), Kerstin Meyer (contralto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Samson François (piano), Marcel Callègue (trombone), Robert Casier (oboe), Lucien Thévet (horn), Henriette Puig-Roget (organ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Annie Challan (harp), Boris Christoff (bass), Georges Tessier (violin), Bernard Cottret (bass), Rémy Corazza (tenor), Ernest Blanc (baritone), Roger Soyer (baritone), Xavier Depraz (bass), Robert Cordier (cello), Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale Berlin, Choeurs René Duclos, Choeurs Élisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre national de Belgique, André Cluytens

Slovak Philharmonic, Daniel Nazareth

Monique de la Bruchollerie (piano), Marcelle Meyer (piano), Zino Francescatti (violin), Jeanne-Marie Darré (piano), Lucien Thévet (horn), André Navarra (cello), Maurice Duruflé (organ), Louis Noguéra (baritone), Martha Angelici (soprano), Marguerite Long (piano), Jean Giraudeau (tenor), Michel Roux (baritone), Hélène Bouvier (mezzo-soprano), Henri Médus (bass), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Youri Boukoff (piano), Pierre Barbizet (piano), Solomon (piano), Samson François (piano), Jacqueline Brumaire (soprano), Michel Dens (baritone), Emile Rousseau (actor), Geneviève Serres (actor), Pierre Germain (actor), Xavier Smati (actor), Louis Rialland (tenor), Louis Courtinat (horn), Emil Gilels (piano), Rita Gorr (contralto), Solange Michel (contralto), Jacques Eyser (actor), Henriette Barreau (actor), Vera Korène (actor), Maria Casarès (actor), Mattiwilda Dobbs (soprano), Lucienne Jourfier (soprano), Jean Marchat (actor), Paul Guers (actor), Claude Nollier (narrator), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Henriette Roget (organ), André Collard (piano), Monique Mercier (piano), Henri Merckel (violin), Étienne François (clarinet), Georges Barboteu (horn), Dmitri Shostakovich (piano), Ludovic Vaillant (trumpet), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Le Grand Orchestre Symphonique Columbia, Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Les Chanteurs de Saint-Eustache, Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Choeurs Raymond Saint-Paul, Ensemble Instrumental, Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Colonne, Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chorale Marcel Briclot, Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestre du Théâtre National de I'Opéra-Comique, Choeurs René Saint-Paul, Chorale de l'Université de Paris, Maîtrise de la Radiodiffusion Française, Berliner Philharmoniker, André Cluytens

Henk Smit (baritone)

Sena Jurinac (soloist), Christa Ludwig (soloist), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), John Mitchinson (soloist), Heather Harper (soloist), Peter Pears (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (soloist), John Shirley-Quirk (soloist), Donald Mitchell, Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marianne Häggander (soloist), Robert Tear (soloist), Gwynne Howell (soloist), Shura Cherkassky (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Henryk Szeryng (violin), José Luis Garcia, Emil Gilels (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, The Men’s Voices of the BBC Northern Singers, Aldeburgh Festival Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent, André Cluytens, Pierre Monteux, Wilhelm Kempff, Leopold Stokowski, Jascha Horenstein, Benjamin Britten, Klaus Tennstedt, Sir Georg Solti, Eugen Jochum, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

James Galway (flute), Fritz Helmis (harp), Bernard Walton (clarinet), Dennis Brain (french horn), Erich Kunz (baritone), Wilma Lipp (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Nan Merriman (contralto), Sesto Bruscantini (baritone), Lothar Koch (oboe), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Maurice André (trumpet), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), David Oistrakh (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Otto Edelmann (bass-baritone), Ulrich Koch (viola), Gidon Kremer (violin), Mirella Freni (soprano), José Carreras (tenor), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Edita Gruberova (soprano), Helen Donath (soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Horst Laubenthal (tenor), Karl Ridderbusch (bass), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Peter Schreier (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wiener Singverein, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, Orchester der Gesellshaft der Musikfreunde Wien, Herbert von Karajan

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Philharmonia Orchestra (percussion), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philadelphia Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Mariss Jansons, Rudolf Kempe, Sir Charles Mackerras, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dmitri Kitayenko, Paavo Berglund, Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini, Joseph Keilberth, Michel Plasson, Louis Frémaux, Artur Rodzinski, Eugen Jochum, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Riccardo Muti, Sir Neville Marriner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Colin Davis, André Previn, Sir Adrian Boult, Kent Nagano, Armin Jordan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Paavo Järvi

Bertalan Hock (organ), György Geiger (trumpet), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Nora Shulman (flute), Judy Loman (harp), Balázs Szokolay (piano), Peter Nagy (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), François-Joël Thiollier (piano), Alexander Rudin (cello), Gerald Garcia (guitar), Cappella Istropolitana, Aradia Ensemble, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapesti Vonósok, Kölner Kammerorchester, Magyar Állami Operaház Zenekara, English Northern Philharmonia, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Camerata, Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, Štátna filharmónia Košice, Richard Edlinger, Kevin Mallon, Daniel Nazareth, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Paul Daniel, Petter Sundkvist, Oliver von Dohnányi, Jeremy Summerly, Ondrej Lenárd, Peter Breiner

Choeurs Et Orchestre Du Théâtre National De l'Opéra, Paris (vocals), Boris Christoff (lead vocals), Chorus Of The National Opera Of Sofia (lead vocals), John Lanigan (vocals), Orchestra National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre Et Choeurs Du Theatre National, André Cluytens

Torgny Sporsen (Bass), Gothenburg Symphony Chorus (Chorus), Michel Schwalbé (Violin) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Staatsopernorchester, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker, Kingsway Sym, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Arthur Rodzinski, Claudio Abbado, Neeme Järvi, Antal Doráti, Herbert Blomstedt, Herbert von Karajan, Camarata, Bernhard Klee

Julia Brown (organ), Josef Bogacz (violin), Ingrid Kertesi (soprano), Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Budapest, Budapest Camerata, Michael Halász, Kenneth Jean, Alexander Rahbari, Béla Drahos, Ondrej Lenárd, Adrian Leaper, László Kovács

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Ogan Durjan, Herbert Kegel

Repercussion Ensemble

René Pape (bass) Staatsopernchor Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Sebastian Weigle

Gary Relyea (bass)

Marina Domashenko (mezzo) Philharmonia of Russia, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian

Joel Berglund (bass-baritone)

Maxim Vengerov (violin), Pierre Amoyal (violin), Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Rachel Kolly d'Alba (violin), Daniel Hope (violin), Alexander Markovich (piano), Alexander Markov (violin), Chloë Hanslip (violin), Gérard Jarry (violin), Chloë Hanslip (solo violin), Tasmin Little (solo violin), Dmitriy Cogan (piano), Mikhaïl Rudi (piano), Pierre Amoyal (solo violin), Malcolm Frager (piano), Cyprien Katsaris (piano), Dmitry Cogan (piano), Susan Moses (cello), Edoardo Farina (harpsichord), Sebastian Knauer (piano), Sakari Oramo & CBSO, Vadim Repin (violin) Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, BBC Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Kamme, Maxim Shostakovich, Armin Jordan, Paul Mann, Andrew Davis, Jean-François Paillard, Paul Paray, Zubin Mehta, Vernon Handley, Marcello Viotti, Sakari Oramo, Kurt Masur

Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo-soprano) Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Pavel Baleff

Orchestra of the Sofia Opera, Kosice Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Pavol Bagin, Christian Ehwald, Ivan Marinov, Ondrej Lenard

Bolshoi Chorus (chorus), Slovak Philarmonic Chorus (chorus), James Conlon (director), Chouer de' l Orchestre De Paris (chorus), Giovanni Antonini (director), Enrico Onofri (violin) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, New York Philharmonic, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Philhamonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, The Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Leningr, Nikolas Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Armin Jordan, Alain Lombard, Alexander Lazarev, Evgeny Mravinsky, Eliahu Inbal, Daniel Barenboim

Francesco Tamagno (tenor), Enrico Caruso (tenor), Nellie Melba (soprano), Antonio Scotti (baritone), Christopher Booth (piano), Feodor Chaliapin (bass), Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Heinrich Schlusnus (tenor), Leo Slezak (tenor), Koloman Von Pataky (tenor), Franz Völker (tenor), Erna Berger (soprano), Julius Patzak (tenor), Helge Rosvaenge (tenor), Helga Roswaenge (tenor), Tiana Lemnitz (soprano), Gino Sinimberghi (tenor), Alda Noni (soprano), Georg Hann (bass), Maria Cebotari (soprano), Alfons Fügel (tenor), Julius Prüwer, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (baritone), Felicie Huni-Mihacsek (soprano), Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone), Wilhelm Strienz (bass), Helge Roswaenge (tenor), Hilde Gueden (soprano), Paul Schöffler (bass-baritone), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Maria Reining (soprano), Frida Leider (soprano), Theodor Scheidl (baritone), Karin Branzell (contralto), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone) Staatsoper Berlin Chorus, Johannes Heidenreich, Manfred Gurlitt, Johannes Schüler, Alois Melichar, Leo Blech, Wolfgang Martin, Franz Alfred Schmidt, Gerhard Steeger, Artur Rother, Karl Böhm, Hermann Weigert, Robert Heger

Jorge Bolet (piano)

Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra

Charlotte Page, The London Salon Ensemble

Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone, bass-baritone), David Hobson (tenor), Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Michael Dudman (organ), Li-Wei Qin (cello), Rosario La Spina (tenor), Simon Tedeschi (piano), Alison Morgan (soprano), Jenny Duck-Chong (mezzo-soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Sinfonia Australis (symphony), Niki Vasilakis (violin), Guy Henderson (oboe), Dene Olding (violin), Ian Munro (piano), John Foster (trumpet), David Drury (organ), Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Antipodes, The Queensland Orchestra, Cantillation, Australian Army Band, Perth, Australian Youth Orchestra, Antony Walker, Christopher Nicholls, David Stanhope, John Lanchbery, Michel Swierczewski, David Measham, Thomas Woods, Michael Halász, Ola Rudner, Stuart Challender, Patrick Thomas, Edo de Waart, Nicholas Braithwaite, Stephen Mould, Albert Rosen, Richard Bonynge, Willem van Otterloo, Arvo Volmer, Vladimir Verbitsky, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Jorge Mester, George Dreyfus, David Porcelijn, Craig Johnson, Wilfred Lehmann, Stanley Black, Sir Charles Mackerras

Norman Shetler (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Stadium Symphony Orchestra Of New York, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Sängerknaben, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberger Symphoniker, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, South German Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, The New Philharmonia Orchestra London, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Hugo Rignold, Leopold Stokowski, Max Pommer, Helmuth Froschauer, Rouslan Raichev, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Hans Vonk, Christian Rainer, Janos Kovacs, János Sándor, Hanspeter Gmür, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lawrence Siegel

Gerhard Eckle (soloist), Michael Ponti (soloist), Camerata Philharmonica, Westfalian Symphonic Orchestra, Hanspeter Gmür, Siegfried Landau

Alessio Bax (piano), Llŷr Williams (piano)

BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert

Alice Ader (piano)

Gerhard Eckle (soloist), Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana, Camerata Philharmonica, Anton Nanut, Hanspeter Gmür

Sergey Rachmaninov (piano)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Boris Giltburg (piano), Kotaro Fukuma, Ieva Ezeriete, Balázs Szokolay (piano), David Tanenbaum, Philip Cutlip, Adam Neiman, Košice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Takako Nishizaki (violin), Andrei Korobeinikov (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), Sergey Rachmaninov (piano), Lyudmila Shkirtil, Maria Kliegel (cello), Elsbeth Moser, Kathrin Rabus, Annelle K. Gregory, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Latvian Radio Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, The Clarion Choir, Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, St. John's Voices, Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Karelia State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Transsylvanica, Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halász, Marin Alsop, Gerard Schwarz, Vasily Petrenko, Alexander Rahbari, Alexander Anissimov, Patrick Baton, Sigvards Klava, Vasily Jelvakov, Kenneth Jean, Johannes Kalitzke, Anthony Bramall, Arthur Fagen, Steven Fox, Kirill Ershov, Dmitry Yablonsky, Andrew Mogrelia, Daniel Nazareth, Graham Walker, Peter Breiner, Vladimir Ziva, Yuri Serov, Theodore Kuchar, Carlos Miguel Prieto, György Selmeczi, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Henry Shek

Torgny Sporsen (bass) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Neeme Järvi, Oliver Knussen, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Ruei-Bin Chen (piano)

Dieter Goldmann (piano), Bruno-Leonardo Gelber (piano), Jorg Metzger (cello), Jan Wolanski (baritone), Anne Margrethe (soprano), Blazej Grek (tenor), Aladar Mozi (violin) Vlastimil Horak, Carl Michalski, Ilmar Lapinsch, Zdenek Kosler, Victor Fedotov, Cesare Cantieri, Josef Leo Gruber

Philippe Herreweghe and Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Matthias Goerne and Alexander Schmalcz, Trio Wanderer, Bernarda Fink and Roger Vignoles, Alain Planès, Olga Kern and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexandre Tharaud, Werner Güra and Jan Schultsz, Isabelle Faust and Daniel Harding, Olga Kern, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Jiri Belohlavek, Raphaël Pidoux and Vincent Coq, Trio Wanderer and Christophe Gaugué, Cédric Tiberghien, Philippe Herreweghe and Sarah Connolly, Brigitte Engerer, Josep Pons and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Kent Nagano and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Philharmonia Chorus (chorus) Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle

Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

Marion Kokott, Moscow State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Klaus-Peter Hahn, Sebastian Silvestra, Gordon Schultz, Ivan Moravec (piano), Eden-Stell Guitar Duo, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Iona Brown, Thomas Fey, Klaus-Peter Hahn, Sir Neville Marriner

Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Serov