Archipel Records

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

NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos

Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen

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

Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum

Pro Musica Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski

Dmitri Shostakovich (piano)

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

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Pierre Monteux, Rudolph Ganz, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra of the All Union Radio Moscow, Nikolai Golovanov

Clifford Curzon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell

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

Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Walter Barylli, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Hermann Scherchen

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

Leopold Stokowski's Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowksi

Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky

Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

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

Philharmonia Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski

Wiener Philharmoniker, Fritz Reiner

Covent Garden Opera Chorus, Fedor Chaliapin, Covent Garden Opera Orchestra, Joseph Hislop, Franclyn Kelsey, Jane Laugier, Angelo Bada, Margherita Carosio, Luigi Manfrini, Piero Coppola, Dorville Dodane (speaker), Covent Garden Chorus, Covent Garden Orchestra, Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, Vincenzo Bellezza, Eugene Goossens, Albert Coates, Jacques Ibert

Houston Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Veronica Tyler (soloist), Maria Lucia Godoy (soloist), Philadelphia Orchestra, Singing City Choir, Leopold Stokowski

Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

Renato Capecchi, Elda Ribetti, Carmelo Maugeri, Carlo Rossi, Luigi Pontiggia & Walter Tarozzi Orchestra da Camera di Milano, Ennio Gerelli

Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

Friedrich Gulda (piano)

Maurizio Pollini (piano)

David Oistrakh (violin), with Lev Oborin (piano) Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Hermann Abendroth

Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler

RIAS Radio Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Ferenc Fricsay

Heinrich Geuser (clarinet), Hans Schmitz (flute) & Fritz Helmis (harp) Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

Henry Schumann (horn), Martina Arroyo (soprano), Carlotta Ordassy (soprano), Luise Parker (contralto), Doris Yarick (soprano), Betty Allen (mezzo-soprano), Doris Okserson (mezzo-soprano), Regina Sarfaty (mezzo-soprano), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano), Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski

Karl Richter (harpsichord)

Luise Helletsgruber (soprano), Rosette Anday (contralto), Georg Maikl (tenor), Richard Mayr (bass), Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Felix Weingartner

Erich Kleiber

The Busch Ensemble

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Hans Hotter & Birgit Nilsson, with Gerald Moore Philharmonia Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leopold Ludwig, Bruno Walter.

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, NWDR Symphony Orchestra, Andre Cluytens, Leopold Stokowski

Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen

Anna Moffo, Elena Rizzieri, Mario Petri, Florindo Anfreolli & Rolando Panerai Complesso Strumentale del Collegium Musicum Italicum I Virtuosi di Roma, Renato Fasano

Clara Haskil (piano) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Charles Munch, Andre Cluytens

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hertha Klust (piano) & Ursula Haustadt (narrator)

Peter Pears, Martha Mödl, Heinz Rehfuss, Otto von Rohr, Helmut Krebs & Werner Hessenland Verstäkter Männerchor of Northwest German Radio & Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky

Christian Ferras (violin) Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe

Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Philharmonia, French Radio Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Orchestra Louis de Froment, Alceo Galliera, Issay Dobrowen and Louis de Froment

Wiener Symphoniker, Andre Cluytens

Berlin Philharmonic, NDR Hamburg Orchestra, Erich Kleiber

Erna Berger, Gertrude Pitzinger, Helge Rosvaenge, Rudolf Watzke Bruno Kittel Choir, Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Berlin Philharmonic & Vienna Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Antonio Janigro (cello) Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kleiber

Brouwenstjin, Malaniuk, Windgassen, Weber Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Edwin Fischer (piano)

Munich Philharmonic, Franz Konwitschny

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Orchestra di Torino della RAI, Sergiu Celibidache