Archipel Records

Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (mezzo soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) & Otto Edelmann (bass) Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ruldolf Kempe (piano)

Lucretia West (alto) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orkest, Dmitri Mitropoulos

Pablo Casals (cello)

Stefan Askenase (piano) Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra & Berlin Philharmonic, Carl Schuricht & Karl Bohm

Leonid Kogan (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin

Jules Viard, Gaston Hamelin, Lily Laskine, Jeanne Guyla, Odette Ricquet, Piero Coppola, Lucien Schwartz, Charles Panzera, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Pasdeloup Orchestra, St. Gervaise Choir, Orchestre Symphonique Paris

Ernst Haefliger (tenor), William Warfield, Maureen Forrester (contralto), Ara Berberian, Olga Iglesias, Paobl Casals, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pablo Casals

Staatskapelle Berlin, Max Fiedler

Erich Röhn (violin), MDR Sinfonieorchester, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Berliner Philharmoniker, Hermann Abendroth, Hermann Abednroth

Thurston Dart (early keyboard instruments)

Clara Haskil (piano), Geza Anda (piano), with Geza Anda (piano) Kolner Gurzenich Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Alceo Galliera

Wolfgang Windgassen (Rienzi), Josef Traxel (Adriano), Paula Brivkalne (Irene), Gustav Neidlinger (Steffano), Hans Günter Nöcker (Paolo Orsini), Otto von Rohr (Raimondo), Alfred Pfeifle (Baroncelli), Fritz Linke (Cecco del Vecchio) Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Lovro Matacic

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Arturo Toscanini

Erika Rokyta (soprano), Lore Fischer (alto), Heinz Marten (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass-baritone) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gunther Ramin, Otto Klemperer

Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

George Szell (narrator), Paul Bedford (narrator), Cleveland Orchestra

Glenn Gould (piano), Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

UDSSR Large Radio Orchestra Moscow, Nikolai Golovanov

Rudolf Serkin (piano), Adolf Busch (violin), Hermann Busch (cello)

Niederosterreichisches Tonkunstler Orchestra, Fritz Busch

Bavarian State Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Hans Knappertsbusch

Alexander Kipnis Bayreuth Orchestra, Siegfried Wagner

Bayerisches Staatsorchestrer, Hans Knappertsbusch

George London (baritone) RIAS & Cologne Radio Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Dora Gatta, Salvatore Gioia, Agostino Ferrin & Angiola Vercelli Compagnia del Teatro Musicale da Camera di Villa Olmo di Como, Ennio Gerelli

Robert Casadesus (piano) RAI Milan Symphony Orchestra, Fernando Previtali

Turin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Sergiu Celibidache

Elsa Cavelti (mezzo), Anton Dermota (tenor) Wiener Symphoniker, Otto Klemperer

Cologne Radio Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Arthur Grumiaux & William Primrose, Dinu Lipatti (piano) Cologne Radio, Zürich, Otto Ackermann

Giacinto Caramia (cello) Cologne Radio & RAI orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

John Corigliano (violin), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Guido Cantelli

Pro Musica Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski

Symphony Orchestra of the All Union Radio Moscow, Nikolai Golovanov

Gottlob Frick (bass), Orchestra of the Munich State Opera, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin State Opera Chorus, Franz Konwitschny

Jeannine Collard (contralto), Edith Selig (soprano), Andre Meurant (tenor), Xavier Depraz (bass), Jean-Jacques Lesueur (tenor), Ensemble Vocal Philippe Caillard, Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble, Louis Frémaux

Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos

Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen

London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch

Standard Oil of California (narrator), Helen Traubel (soprano), San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux

NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky

Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Edith Peinemann, Renato Zanettovich, Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti di Napoli della RAI, Claudio Abbado

Dmitri Shostakovich (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski

Wiener Philharmoniker, Fritz Reiner

Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Franz Konwitschny

Vienna Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner

Berlin Philharmonic, La Scala Orchestra, RAI Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Orchestra A Scarlatti di Napoli della RAI, Sergiu Celibidache

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Bremer Philharmonisches, Hans Knappertsbusch