Philips

Alexander Gergalov (Andrei Bolkonsky), Yelena Prokina (Natasha Rostova), Svetlana Volkova (Sonya), Irina Bogachova (Maria Akhrosimova), Sergei Alexashkin (Ilya Rostov), Gegam Gregoriam (Pierre Bezukhov), Olga Borodina (Helena Bezukhova), Yuri Marusin (Anatol Kuragin), Alexander Morozov (Dolokhov), Ludmilla Kanunnikova (Maria Bolkonsky), Mikail Kit (Vasska Denisov), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Marshal Kutuzov), Vassily Gerelo (Bonaparte) Kirov Opera & Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev

Federico Agostini (violin), Antonio Perez (violin), Francesco Strano (cello), Maria Teresa Garatti (harpsichord), Pasquale Pellegrino (violin), Claudio Buccarella (violin) I Musici

Alfred Brendel (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine & Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Bernard Haitink

Thomas Moser (Tenor), Hanna Schwarz (Contralto), Lucia Popp (Soprano), Edith Mathis (Soprano), Edita Gruberova (Soprano), Lilian Sukis (Soprano), Francisco Araiza (Tenor), Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö (Tenor), Robert Lloyd (Bass) Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager

John Constable (Harpsichord), Celia Nicklin (Oboe), Timothy Brown (Horn), Kenneth Sillito (Violin) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The Ambrosian Singers, Sir Neville Marriner

Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Arpad Gérecz (violin), Georges Janzer (viola), Max Lesueur (viola), Eva Czako (cello)

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

Alfred Brendel (piano), Henryk Szeryng (violin), János Starker (cello) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Jeffrey Tate, London Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Neville Marriner, English Chamber Orchestra, Hermann Baumann (Horn), Iona Brown (Violin), Celia Nicklin (Oboe), Nobuko Imai (Viola), Alfred Brendel (Piano), Imogen Cooper (Piano), Mitsuko Uchida (Piano), Arthur Grumiaux (Violin), Walter Klien (Piano), Menahem Pressler (Piano), Isidore Cohen (Violin), Bernard Greenhouse (Cello), Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Peter Damm (Horn), Werner Herbers (Oboe), Carlo Ravelli (Oboe), Hans Mossel (Basset Horn), Hens Otter (Clarinet), Joep Terwey (Bassoon), Kees Olthuis (Bassoon), Iman Soeteman (Horn), Jan Peeters (Horn), Hans Krul (Double Bass), Irena Grafenauer (Flute), Heinz Holliger (Oboe), Michel Gasciarrino (Horn), Henk Guldemond (Double Bass), Michael Laird (Posthorn) English Baroque Soloists, Beaux Arts Trio, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Members of the Netherlands Wind Ensembl

Peter Schreier (Tenor), Hans Peter Blochwitz (Tenor), Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Rudolf Jansen (Piano), Raphael Alpermann (Organ), Mitsuko Shirai (Soprano), Heidi Riess (Contralto), Eberhard Büchner (Tenor), Hermann Christian Polster (Bass), Renate Frank-Reinecke (Soprano), Walter Heinz Bernstein (Organ), Annelies Burmeister (Mezzo-Soprano) Radio Chorus Leipzig, Male Chorus, Staatskapelle Dresden, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel

Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Mezzo-Soprano), Ryland Davies (Tenor), Gwynne Howell (Bass), John Constable (Organ), London Symphony Chorus (Chorus), Michael Christfried Winkler (Organ), Dagmar Schellenberger-Ernst (Soprano), Hans-Joachim Ribbe (Bass), Rosemarie Lang (Contralto), Ralph Eschrig (Tenor), René Pape (Bass), Sebastian Krause (Trombone), Hans Werner Mehling (Violin), Volker Bräutigam (Organ), Isabella Nawe (Soprano), Walter Heinz Bernstein (Organ), Walter Berry (Bass), Ute Selbig (Soprano), Eberhard Büchner (Tenor), Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss (Soprano), Annelies Burmeister (Mezzo-Soprano), Hermann Christian Polster (Bass) London Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Sir Colin Davis, Herbert Kegel

Irena Grafenauer (flute), Karl Leister (clarinet), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Peter Damm (horn) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Ingvar Wixell (Don Giovanni), Martina Arroyo (Donna Anna), Stuart Burrows (Don Ottavio), Kiri Te Kanawa (Donna Elvira), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Leoporello), Luigi Roni (Il Commendatore), Richard Van Allan (Masetto), Mirella Freni (Zerlina) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Agnes Baltsa (Ascanio), Edith Mathis (Silvia), Peter Schreier (Aceste), Lilian Sukis (Venere), Arleen Augér (Fauno) Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Salzburger Kammerchor, Leopold Hager

Larissa Diadkova (Contralto), Nikolai Gassiev (Tenor), Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Chorus of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Valery Borisov, Sergei Alexashkin (Bass), Sergei Liadov, Fyodor Kuznetsov (Bass), Georgy Zastavny (Baryton), Georgy Zastavny (Baritone), Vladimir Zhivopistsev (Tenor), Evgeny Akimov (Tenor), Alexander Gergalov (Baritone), Yuri Shkliar (Bass), Ljubov Sokolova (Mezzo-Soprano), Marianna Tarassova (Mezzo-Soprano), Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg (Chorus), Lyudmlla Kasianenko, Valery Sobanov, Vladimir Kniazev, Vladimir Vaneev Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

José Carreras (Eléazar), June Anderson Rachel), Dalmacio Gonzales (Prince Léopold), Julia Varady (Princess Eudoxie), Ferrucio Furlanetto (Brogni), Ambrosian Opera Chorus (chorus) Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida

Janet Baker, Edith Mathis, Norma Burrowes, James Bowman, David Rendall, Samuel Ramey, Alexander Oliver London Voices, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard

Manfred Jung (Siegfried), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Donald McIntyre (Wanderer), Fritz Hübner (Fafner), Gwyneth Jones (Brünnhilde), Norma Sharp (Waldvogel) Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez

Francisco Araiza (Hoffmann), Eva Lind (Olympia), Cheryl Studer (Giulietta), Jessye Norman (Antonia), Samuel Ramey (Coppélius/Dapertutto/Miracle), Anne Sofie von Otter (Nicklaus), Riccardo Cassinelli (Spalanzani), Georges Gautier (Frantz), Jean-Luc Chaignaud (Schlemil), Boris Martinovitch (Crespil) Staatskapelle Dresden, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Jeffrey Tate

Peter Hofmann (Siegmund), Jeannine Altmeyer (Sieglinde), Matti Salminen (Hunding), Gwyneth Jones (Brünhilde), Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Carmen Reppel (Gerhilde), Karen Middleton (Ortlinde), Gabriele Schnaut (Waltraute), Gwendolyn Killebrew (Schwertleite), Katie Clarke (Helmwige), Marga Schiml (Siegrune), Ilse Gramatzki (Grimgerde), Elisabeth Glauser (Roßweiße) Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez

Edith Mathis (Soprano), Rosemarie Lang (Contralto), Uwe Heilmann (Tenor), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Bass), Michael Christfried Winkler (Organ), Helen Donath (Soprano), Annette Markert (Contralto), Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Mitsuko Shirai (Soprano), Aldo Baldin (Tenor), Hermann Christian Polster (Bass) Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel

Peter Schreier (Lucio Silla), Arleen Augér (Giunia), Julia Varady (Cecilio), Helen Donath (Celia), Edith Mathis (Cinna), Werner Krenn (Aufidio) Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Salzburger Rundfunk- und Mozarteumchor, Leopold Hager

Judy Conwell (Sandrina), Jutta-Renate Ihloff (Serpetta), Brigitte Fassbaender (Ramiro), Thomas Moser (Belfiore), Barry McDaniel (Nardo), Ezio Di Cesare (Podesta), Lilian Sukis (Arminda) Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager

Helen Donath (Sandrina), Ileana Cotrubas (Serpetta), Tatiana Troyanos (Ramiro), Werner Hollweg (Belfiore), Hermann Prey (Nardo), Gerhard Unger (Podesta), Jessye Norman (Arminda) NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Arthur Grumiaux (Violin), Walter Klien (Piano), Isabelle van Keulen (Violin), Ronald Brautigam (Piano), Ronald Brautigam (Harpsichord), Gérard Poulet (Violin), Blandine Verlet (Harpsichord)

Quartetto Italiano

Kiri Te Kanawa, Francisco Araiza, Evgeny Nesterenko, Andreas Schmidt, Pamela Coburn, Marjana Lipovsek & Gilles Cachemaille Symphonie-Orchester & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Colin Davis

Jessye Norman (soprano) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, American Boy Choir, Seiji Ozawa

Peter Schreier (Tamino), Margaret Price (Pamina), Mikael Melbye (Papageno), Luciana Serra (The Queen of the Night), Kurt Moll (Sarastro), Marie McLaughlin (First Lady), Ann Murray (Second Lady), Hanna Schwarz (Third Lady), Robert Tear (Monostatos), Maria Venuti (Papagena) Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresdner Kreuzchor - members, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Sir Colin Davis

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

Galina Gorchakova, Vladimir Galusin, Nikolai Putilin, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Yuri Marusin, Bulat Minjelkiev, Vladimir Ognovienko Kirov Opera & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Alfred Brendel (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine

Alistair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Donna Brown & Lynne Dawson Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloist, John Eliot Gardiner

Peter Schreier tenor (Evangelist), Theo Adam bass (Jesus), Lucia Popp soprano (arias & recitatives), Marjana Lipovsek contralto (arias & recitatives), Eberhard Büchner tenor (arias & recitatives), Robert Holl bass (arias & recitatives), Andreas Scheibner baritone (Peter), Ekkehard Wlaschiha bass (Judas), Hermann Christian Polster bass (Pilate), Olaf Bär baritone (Pontifex), Johanna Schneiderheinze contralto (Testis I), Ekkehard Wegner tenor (Testis II), Andrea Ihle soprano (Ancilla I), Elisabeth Wilke contralto, Helga Termer soprano (Uxor Pilati), Hans-Joachim Ribbe bass (Pontifex I) & Klaus Henkel bass (Pontifex II) Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Peter Schreier

Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Anja Silja (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Eberhard Wächter (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Josef Greindl (Hermann), Gerhard Stolze (Walther von der Vogelweide), Franz Crass (Biterolf), Georg Paskuda (Heinrich der Schreiber), Gerd Nienstedt (Reinmar von Zweter), Else-Margrete Gardelli (Hirt) Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Marcello Giordani, Philippe Rouillon, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Marina Merscheriakova Suisse Romande Orchestra, Fabio Luisi

Beaux Arts Trio, Guarneri Quartet, I Musici, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Edo de Waart, James Judd, Sir Neville Marriner, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Friedrich Gulda (Piano), Jean Louis Steuerman (Piano), Arthur Grumiaux (Violin), Heinz Holliger (Oboe), William Bennett (Flute), János Scholz (Viola Da Gamba), Maria Teresa Garatti (Harpsichord), David Oistrakh (Violin), Lev Oborin (Piano), György Sebök (Piano), George Pieterson (Clarinet), Hepzibah Menuhin (Piano), Menahem Pressler (Piano), Daniel Guilet (Violin), Bernard Greenhouse (Cello), Quartetto Italiano (String Quartet), Werner Haas (Piano), Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet (Chamber Ensemble), Alfred Malecek (Violin), Rudolf A Hartmann (Violin), Kunio Tsuchiya (Viola), Peter Steiner (Cello), Herbert Stähr (Clarinet), Ferdinand Mezger (Violin) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Ingrid Haebler (fortepiano), Ton Koopman (harpischord/director), Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano), Imogen Cooper (piano) Capella Academica Wien, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Eduard Melkus, Semyon Bychkov, Neville Marriner

Alfred Brendel (Piano), Imogen Cooper (Piano) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Uri Zagorodniuk (violin), Sergei Roldugin (cello) Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

Beaux Arts Trio

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

Francisco Araiza (Idomeneo), Susanne Mentzer (Idamante), Uwe Heilmann (Arbace), Barbara Hendricks (Ilia), Roberta Alexander (Elettra), Werner Hollweg (Gran Sacerdote), Harrie Peeters (La Voce) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Colin Davis

June Anderson (Anna Erisso), Ernesto Palacio (Paolo Erisso), Margarita Zimmermann (Calbo), Laurence Dale (Condulmiero), Samuel Ramey (Maometto II) Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Claudio Scimone

Vladimir Galusin, Marianna Tarassova, Sergei Alexashkin, Valentina Tsidipova, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Ognovenko, Nikolai Gassiev Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Pierre Henry

Antony Pay (Clarinet), Iona Brown (Violin), Malcolm Latchem (Violin), Stephen Shingles (Viola), Denis Vigay (Cello), Timothy Brown (Horn), Anthony Jenkins (Viola), Neil Black (Oboe), Klaus Thunemann (Bassoon), Stephen Orton (Cello), William Bennett (Flute), Kenneth Sillito (Violin), Robert Smissen (Viola), Andrew Marriner (Clarinet), Angela Malbury (Basset Horn) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Grumiaux Trio

Margaret Marshall (Soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (Tenor), Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano), Inga Nielsen (Soprano), Aldo Baldin (Tenor), Stephen Varcoe (Baritone), Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart (Chorus), Iris Vermillion (Mezzo-Soprano) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Sir Neville Marriner

Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Ingvar Wixell (Conte Almaviva), Jessye Norman (Contessa Almaviva), Yvonne Minton (Cherubino), Maria Casula (Marcellina), Clifford Grant (Bartolo), Robert Tear (Basilio), David Lennox (Curzio), Paul Hudson (Antonio), Lilian Watson (Barbarina) BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, Sir Colin Davis

Helen Donath, Andrea Ihle, Marjana Lipovsek, Eberhard Büchner & Robert Holl Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden & Trompetenensemble Ludwig Güttler, Peter Schreier (conductor & Evangelist)

Members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Timothy Brown (Horn), Mitsuko Uchida (Piano), Neil Black (Oboe), Thea King (Clarinet), Julian Farrell (Basset Horn), Robin O'Neill (Bassoon), Monika Frimmer (Soprano), Erik Smith (Harpsichord), Andreas Röhn (Violin), Susanne Mentzer (Mezzo-Soprano), Barbara Hendricks (Soprano), Erik Smith (Speaker), Sir Neville Marriner (Speaker) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito, Peter Schreier, Sir Colin Davis

Bulat Minzhilkiev (Ivan Khovansky), Yuri Masurin (Andrey Khovansky), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Vasily Golitsyn), Viacheslav Trofimov (Shaklovity), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Dosifey), Olga Borodina (Marfa), Evgenia Tselovalnik (Susanna), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Scribe), Tatiana Kravtsova (Emma), Nikolai Gassiev (Kuzka), Vassily Gerelo (Streshniev), Valery Lebed (Pastor), Mikhail Chernozhukov (Varsonofiev), Evgeny Fedotov (Strelets I), Andrei Khramtsov (Strelets II) Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Kirov Chorus, Valery Gergiev

Francisco Araiza (Tenor), Edith Mathis (Soprano), Leopold Hager (Piano), Robert Lloyd (Bass), Lilian Sukis (Soprano), Edita Gruberova (Soprano), Walter Berry (Bass-Baritone), Walter Berry (Bass), Lucia Popp (Soprano), Alois Posch (Double Bass), Julie Kaufmann (Soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (Tenor), Eva Lind (Soprano), Stuart Burrows (Tenor), Christiane Eda-Pierre (Soprano), Elzbieta Szmytka (Soprano), Edith Wiens (Soprano), Gunnar Gudbjornsson (Tenor), Iris Vermillion (Mezzo-Soprano), Peter Mirring (Violin), Peter Schreier (Tenor), Walter Taussig (Cembalo), Robert Tear (Tenor) Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Dresdner Philharmonie, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Karl Böhm

Alfred Brendel (piano) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Quartetto Italiano

Nigel Robson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Lynn Dawson, Ruth Holton Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Lynne Dawson, Donna Brown, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Neil Mackie, Alastair Miles, Philip Salmon, Philip Slane, Richard Savage, Simon Oberst, Holton English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Della Jones, Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, Donna Brown, Michael Chance, Anne Sofie von Otter English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Nikolai Putilin, Sergei Alexashkin, Larissa Diadkova, Irina Loskutova Kirov Opera & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev