Opera, Opera Excerpts, Gounod (composer)

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth

Benjamin Bernheim (tenor) PKF Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Ludovic Tézier (baritone) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato

Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, Michael Schønwandt

Pretty Yende (soprano) Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Marco Armiliato

Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Chorus & Orchestra of the ROH, Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano) Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Giacomo Sagripanti

Jan Kraybill (organ)

Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Nicole Car (soprano) Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Andrea Molino

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada

Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)

Julien Behr (tenor) Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon, Pierre Bleuse

Roberto Alagna (tenor) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London Voices, Bertrand de Billy

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Régine Crespin (soprano) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Wiener Volksopernorcheste, Alain Lombard & Georges Sebastian

Joseph Calleja (tenor) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marco Armiliato

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor, vocalist), Eric Garrett (baritone), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Gian Carlo Luccardi (bass), David Romano, John Wustman (piano), José Carreras (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Zucchero, Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Frank Sinatra (vocals), East London Gospel Choir, Eric Clapton, Passengers, Elton John (vocalist, piano), Davey Johnstone (guitar), John Jorgenson (guitar), Bob Birch (bassguitar), Guy Babylon (keyboard, stringarranger), Charlie Morgan (drumkit, percussion), Paul Kegg (cello), Vaughan Armon (violin), Boguslav Kostecki (violin), Peter Oxer (violin), Wilfred Gibson (violin), Jim McLeod (violin), Jackie Shave (orchestramember), Howard Ball (orchestramember), Frank Lloyd (orchestramember), Chris Laurence (doublebass), John Pigneguy (orchestramember), Paul Cullington (orchestramember), Katie Wilkinson (orchestramember), Andrew Parker (orchestramember), David Daniels (cello), Eddie Roberts (orchestramember), Robin McGee (orchestramember), Maciej Rakowski (orchestramember), Paul Willey (violin), Alison Kelly (violin), Gavyn Wright (violin), David Nolan (violin), Jonathan Strange (violin), Bill Benham (viola), Tony Pleeth (orchestramember), Jon Ewans Jones (violin), Gillian Findley (violin), Mike De Saulles (violin), Jonathan Bradbury (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola), John Underwood (viola), Philip Dukes (viola), Philip De Groote (viola), Jonathan Williams (cello), Chris Van Kampen (cello), Hugh Seenan (orchestramember), Céline Dion, Tracy Chapman, Alberto Bartoli (percussion), Stefano "Tellus" Nanni (piano), Kameron Brown (doublebass), Michele Centonze (guitar), Fabio Sartoni (drumkit), Marco Tamburini (trumpet), Piero Odorici (saxophone), Roberto Rossi (trombone), Veris Giannetti (tenor), Livio Borri (chorusconductor), Queen, Lou Reed, Barry White, Les Disciples de Massenet, The Symphonic Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker, Orchestra Del Teatro Municipale Di Reggio Emilia, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Philharmoniker, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, New Philharmonia Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Philharmonia Orchestra, The London Opera Chorus, Unknown Orchestra, Henry Mancini & His Orchestra, Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Metropolitan Opera, Orchestra da Camera Arcangelo Corelli, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica Di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana, Orchestra di Roma, Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Corale Gioachino Rossini, Wiener Staatsoper, BBC Philharmonic, Les Petits Chanteurs Du Mont-Royal, Philharmonia Chorus, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Sir Edward Downes, Richard Bonynge, Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Herbert von Karajan, Leone Magiera, Kurt Herbert Adler, Robin Stapleton, Anton Guadagno, Piero Gamba, Giuseppe Patanè, Nicola Rescigno, Giancarlo Chiaramello, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Bruno Bartoletti, Emerson Buckley, Henry Mancini, James Levine, Aldo Sisilli, Maurizio Benini, Bill Miller, Marco Armiliato, Anne Dudley, Marco Boemi, José Molina, Romano Musumarra, Sir John Pritchard

Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Ernö Balogh (piano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano), Bruno Walter (narrator), Bruno Walter (piano), Lotte Lehmann (reader), Lotte Lehmann (narrator) NBC Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Chorus, RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Frank Black, Nathaniel Shilkret, Richard Lert

Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

Alda Dizdari (violin), Camilla Pay (harp)

Luka Faulisi (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)

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

Eugene Conley (tenor) The New Symphony Orchestra, Robert Farnon and His Orchestra, Royalton Kisch, Alberto Erede, Warwick Braithwaite

Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Nello Santi

London Festival Orchestra, Ross Pople

Lars Björling, Anouchka Mukherjee, Harry Ebert, Unknown, Brita Lignell, Lilian Carlsson, Ulf Wesslén, Gunnar Hahn, John McCay, Jan Eyron, Carl-otto Erasmie, Sergei Reznikov

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Vienna Philharmonic, John Lanchberry, Herbert von Karajan

Nellie Melba (soprano)

Paul van Kempen

Eileen Joyce (piano)

Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Hjödis Schymberg (Mimi), Victoria de los Angeles (Nedda), Leonard Warren (Tonio), Paul Franke (Beppe), Robert Merrill (Silvio), Victoria de los Angeles (Mimi), Lucine Amara (Musetta), Robert Merrill (Marcello), John Reardon (Schaunard), Giorgio Tozzi (Colline), Victoria de los Angeles (Butterfly), Miriam Pirazzini (Suzuki), Mario Sereni (Sharpless), Piero de Palma (Goro)

Martin Fröst (clarinet) with Roland Pöntinen (piano), Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Christian Svarfvar (violin), Åsa Thedéen (violin), Göran Fröst (viola), Svante Henryson (cello/double bass), Hermann Stefánsson (clarinet) & Sölve Kingstedt (clarinet)

Johann Strauss Orchestra, André Rieu, Coen Thomas (unknown), Ward Vlasveld (unknown), Stéphanie Detry, André Rieu Studios BV, Maastricht, The Netherlands (studio), The Coriovallum Pipeband, Mirusia, Ward Vlasveld (programmer), Ward Vlasveld (synthesizer programming), Coen Thomas (programmer), The Platin Tenors, Carmen Monarcha, Carla Maffioletti, Mirusia Louwerse, Manoe Konings, Suzan Erens

Pierre Fournier (cello)

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Maurice André (trumpet), Günther Piesk (bassoon), Agnes Baltsa (contralto), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), José van Dam (bass), Peter Schreier (tenor), Lothar Koch (oboe), David Oistrakh (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Charlotte Page, The London Salon Ensemble

Julian Reynolds & Peter Lockwood (two pianos)

Giovanni De Chiaro (guitar)

Alexander Rudin (cello) with Vladimir Skanavi, Jana Ivanilova & Victor Ginsburg

Marco Sollini (piano), Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Marta Mari (soprano)

Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone, bass-baritone), David Hobson (tenor), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Nicole Car (soprano), Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Erin Wall (soprano), Victoria Lambourn (mezzo-soprano), Milica Ilic (soprano), Rosario La Spina (tenor), Barbara Jane Gilby (violin), Nic Raine, Craig Hill (bass clarinet), Jayson Gillham (piano), Roger Woodward (piano), Amanda Thane (soprano), Fiona Janes (soprano), David Brennan (bass (vocal)), Dimity Hall (violin), Sally Whitwell (piano), Slava Grigoryan (guitar), Li-Wei Qin (cello), Gerard Willems (piano), Beverly Sills (soprano), Sara Macliver (soprano), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Chen (piano), Ayako Uehara (piano), Vera Kameneva (piano), Lorina Gore (soprano), Kristi Harms (mezzo-soprano), David Hibbard (bass-baritone), Sally Maer (cello), Emma Matthews (soprano), Michael Goldschlager (cello), Helena Rathbone (violin), Richard Tognetti (director, violin), Jane Sheldon (soprano), Niki Vasilakis (violin), Peter Hofmann (tenor), Hildegard Behrens (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), David Stanhope (piano), Lyle Chan (piano), Jane Edwards (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Jun Yi Ma (violin), Simon Tedeschi (piano), Peter Harvey (baritone), Gary Cooper (piano), Paul McMahon (tenor), Tommie Andersson (lute), Thomas Edmonds (tenor), David Drury (organ), Diana Doherty (oboe), James King (tenor), Leonie Rysanek (soprano), Willard White (bass (vocal)), Leona Mitchell (soprano), Ian Munro (piano), Sinfonia Australis, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, VOX, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Antipodes, London Philharmonic Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Adelaide Vocal Project, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Opera Queensland Chorus, Luminescence Chamber Choir, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Seraphim Trio, The Australian Opera And Ballet Orchestra, Cantillation, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Strings of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Thomas Woods, Nicholas Milton, Muhai Tang, Andrea Molino, Stephen Mould, Sir Andrew Davis, Patrick Thomas, Jorge Mester, Andrew Greene, Paul Dyer, Antony Walker, Benjamin Northey, Richard Divall, Carlo Rizzi, Elizabeth Scott, Brett Kelly, Nicholas Braithwaite, David Measham, Julius Rudel, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Karmirski, Edvard Tchivzhel, José Serebrier, Edo de Waart, Christopher Hogwood, Christopher Nicholls, Johannes Fritzsch, Brad Cohen, Daniel Brinsmead, Ola Rudner, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Stuart Challender, Leonard Bernstein, Tadaaki Otaka, Marko Letonja, Vladimir Kamirsky, Kenneth Alwyn, Matthias Bamert, James Christiansen, Brett Weymark, Mark Summerbell, Karl Böhm, Werner Andreas Albert, Lorin Maazel

Erica Morini (violin), Leon Pommers (piano)

Leonardo Locatelli (soloist)

Diana Damrau (soprano) Munich Radio Orchestra, Dan Ettinger

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Mado Robin (soprano) L´Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Blareau, Anatole Fistoulari

David Hobson, James McCrow, Marcelle Mallette, Yoram Levy Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Marco Guidarini

Susanna Mildonian, Maxence Larrieu

Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), The John Alldis Choir (Chorus) Wiener Volksopernorchester, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Opernorchester, Leone Magiera, Richard Bonynge, Herbert von Karajan, Zubin Mehta, Nicola Rescigno

Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), The John Alldis Choir (Chorus) Wiener Volksopernorchester, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Opernorchester, Leone Magiera, Richard Bonynge, Herbert von Karajan, Zubin Mehta, Nicola Rescigno

David Zinman

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

Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Régine Crespin (Soprano), Anita Cerquetti (Soprano), Ileana Cotrubas (Soprano), Maria Chiara (Soprano), Elena Suliotis (Soprano), Montserrat Caballé (Soprano), Graziella Sciutti (Soprano), Gunther Lorenz (Oboe), Renata Tebaldi (Soprano), Margaret Price (Soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (Soprano), Leontyne Price (Soprano), Felicia Weathers (Soprano), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), Pilar Lorengar (Soprano), Elizabeth Harwood (Soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Bass), Gianni Maffeo (Baritone), Michel Sénéchal (Tenor), Rolando Panerai (Baritone), Virginia Zeani (Soprano), Kathleen Battle (Soprano), Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano), Sumi Jo (Soprano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Wiener Philharmoniker, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra di Roma, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Opernorchester, B, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Edward Downes, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Herbert Adler, Silvio Varviso, Zubin Mehta, Argeo Quadri, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Giuseppe Patanè, Franco Patané, Hans Knappertsbusch

Michel Schwalbé (violin), Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Nicolas Economou (piano), Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Boston Pops Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala, Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Herbert von Karajan, Anatole Fistoulari, Neeme Järvi, John Lanchbery, Arthur Fiedler, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Antal Dorati, Seiji Ozawa, Mikhail Pletnev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Neville Marriner

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janos Sandor, Heinz Fricke