Testament

Germaine Thyssens-Valentin

Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Daniel Adni (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carl Schuricht

Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin, Otto Klemperer

Eileen Farrell (soprano), Set Svanholm (tenor) Leopold Stokowski & his Symphony Orchestra & Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter

Karl Leister (clarinet), Fritz Helmis (harp) & Horst Göbel (piano) Berliner Philharmoniker, Aaron Copland

Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre de Concerts Lamoureux, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sir Thomas Beecham, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat

Ida Haendel (violin)

Ernö Dohnányi (piano)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Leo Borchard

Franco Corelli (tenor), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Susan Starr (piano) Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski

Leonore Kirschstein, Jeanne Deroubaix, Peter Schreier Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Günther Morbach Choir, Günter Wand

Magda Olivero (Adriana), Juan Oncina (Maurizio, ), Sesto Bruscantini (Michonnet, Adriana Lazzarini (The Princess of Bouillon), Enrico Campi (The Prince of Bouillon), Piero de Palma (The Abbé of Chazeuil), Elena Barcis (Mlle. Jouvenot), Anna di Stasio (Mlle. Dangeville), Vittorio Pandano (Poisson), Augusto Frati (Quinault) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Oliviero de Fabritiis

Astrid Varnay, Brünnhilde, Bernd Aldenhoff, Siegfried, Hermann Uhde, Gunther, Elisabeth Höngen, Waltraute, Heinrich Pflanzl, Alberich, Ludwig Weber, Hagen, Martha Mödl, Gutrune et troisième Norne, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Woglinde, Hanna Ludwig, Wellgunde, Hertha Töpper, Floßhilde, Ruth Siewert, Première Norne, Ira Malaniuk, deuxième Norne Chor & Orchester der Festspiele Bayreuth, Hans Knappertsbusch

Blanche Thebom (Didon), Jon Vickers (Enée), Amy Shuard (Cassandre), Jess Walters (Chorèbe), Lauris Elms (Anna), David Kelly (Narbal), Michael Langdon (Panthée), Joan Carlyle (Ascagne), Richard Verreau (Iopas), Forbes Robinson (Priam), Noreen Berry (Hécube), Dermot Troy (Hylas), Joseph Rouleau (L'Ombre d'Hector), Robert Allman (Un chef grec), Alan Beale (Mercure), Ronald Lewis & Rhydderch Davies (Soldiers) Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Covent Garden Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík

Berliner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe

Martha Mödl (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Ramón Vinay (Siegmund), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka/Grimgerde), Josef Greindl (Hunding), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Wolfgang Windgassen Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Joseph Keilberth

[b]Das Rheingold[/b] Hans Hotter (Wotan), Erich Witte (Loge), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka), Kurt Böhme (Fasolt), Frederick Dalberg (Fafner), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Freia), Robert Allman (Donner), Edgar Evans (Froh), Peter Klein (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay (Erda), Joan Sutherland (Woglinde), Una Hale (Wellgunde), Marjorie Thomas (Flosshilde) [b] Die Walküre [/b] Ramon Vinay (Siegmund), Sylvia Fisher (Sieglinde), Frederick Dalberg (Hunding), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Amy Shuard (Gerhilde), Una Hale (Ortlinde), Edith Coates (Waltraute), Jean Watson (Schwertleite), June Grant (Helmwige), Noreen Berry (Siegrune), Barbara Howitt (Grimgerde), Marjorie Thomas (Rossweisse) [b] Siegfried [/b] Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Hans Hotter (Der Wanderer), Jeannette Sinclair (Waldvogel) [b] Götterdämmerung [/b] Kurt Böhme (Hagen), Hermann Uhde (Gunther), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Gutrune), Maria von Ilosvay (Waltraute), Maria von Ilosvay (1. Norn), Constance Shacklock (2. Norn), Amy Shuard (3. Norn) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Rudolf Kempe

Hollywood String Quartet

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela, James King, Kenneth Macdonald & Annelies Burmeister BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Rosanna Carteri (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Leonard Warren (Giorgio Germont), Lidia Marimpietri (Flora), Rina Alessandri (Annina) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux

London Baroque Ensemble, Karl Haas

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Otto Klemperer

Cesare Valletti (tenor) & Leo Taubman (piano)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Carl Schuricht

Solomon (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Issay Dobroven

Alfred Deller (Oberon), Jennifer Vyvyan (Tytania), Leonide Massine II (Puck), Kevin Platts (Cobweb), Robert McCutcheon (Mustardseed), Barry Ferguson (Moth), Michael Bauer (Peaseblossom), George Maran (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Marjorie Thomas (Hermia), April Cantelo (Helena), Forbes Robinson (Theseus), Johanna Peters (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince), Peter Pears (Flute), David Kelly (Snug), Edward Byles (Snout), Joseph Ward (Starveling) London Symphony Orchestra, Choirs of Downside & Emanuel Schools, Benjamin Britten

Hollywood String Quartet

Pro Arte Quartet

Leonid Kogan (violin), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri

Julius Katchen (piano) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Nathan Milstein Philharmonia Orchestra, St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Harry Blech, Vladimir Golschmann

Michael Rabin (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens

Nathan Milstein (violin), Erica Morini (violin)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, André Cluytens

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Maria Stader, soprano, Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano Chœurs de la cathédrale St Hedwig de Berlin, Philharmonie de Berlin, Sir John Barbirolli

Leonid Kogan (violin), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, André Vandernoot

Berliner Philharmoniker, Evgeny Svetlanov

Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber

Leonid Kogan (violin) Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Vandernoot

Juilliard String Quartet

Vladimir Ashkenazy Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdislaw Gorzynski

Manoug Panikian Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch

David Oistrakh, Vladimir Yampolsky

Edwin Fischer Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Pierre Fournier, Ernst Moraweg Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss

William Cochran, Helga Dernesch, Hans Sotin New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Orchestre de Ia Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Roger Désormière

Shakeh Vartenissian, Fiorenza Cossotto, Eugenio Fernandi, Boris Christoff Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin

Amadeus Quartet

Max Rostal (violin), Colin Horsley (piano)

Mischa Elman (violin) with Joseph Seiger (piano)

Teresa Stich-Randall Wiener Symphoniker, Otto Klemperer

Honor Sheppard (soprano), Shirley Minty (contralto), Ronald Dowd (tenor) & Roger Stalman (bass) BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, City of London Choir, Hampstead Choral Society, Emanuel School Choir & Orpington Junior Singers, Sir Adrian Boult