VAI

Eileen Farrell (soprano), John Newmark (piano) Orchestra of Radio-Canada Opera, Jean Deslauriers

Christian Ferras (violin), Guy Bourasson (piano) Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Alexander Brott

Van Cliburn (piano)

Léopold Simoneau (tenor), Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Malcolm Frager (piano) Josef Krips

Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya

The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

Graziella Sciutti (Susanna), Geraint Evans (Figaro), Hilde Güden (Countess Almaviva), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count Almaviva), Evelyn Lear (Cherubino), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Peter Lagger (Bartolo), Patricia Johnson (Marcellina), Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Antonio), Barbara Vogel (Barbarina), Martin Vantin (Curzio) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Gulsin Onay (piano) Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov, Avi Ostrowsky

Alexander Spendaryan State Academy Opera and Ballet Theatre, Hakob Ter-Voskanian

Grigor Gondjian (Tsar Dodon), Ruben Kubelian (Tsarevich Gvidon), Sergey Shushardjian (Tsarevich Afron), Ellada Chakhoyan (Queen of Shemakha), Susanna Martirosian (Golden Cockerel), Haroutun Karadjian (General Polkan), Grand Aivazian (Astrologer) Alexander Spendiaryan State Academic Theatre Orchestra, Aram Katanian

Pille Lill (soprano), Merle Silmato (mezzo), Juhan Trall (tenor), Rauno Elp (baritone) Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Soloists and Choirs, Neeme Jarvi

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier

Rathbone/Damone/Munsel

Jarvi/Hampson/Groves

Bill McIver (Amahl), Rosemary Kuhlmann (Mother), Andrew McKinley (King Caspar), David Aiken (King Melchior), Leon Lishner (King Balthazar), Francis Monachino (Servant) & John Butler, Glen Tetley, Carmen Gutierrez (Dancing Shepherds) Members of the Symphony of the Air, Thomas Schippers

Rosalyn Tureck (harpsichord)

Brenda Lewis (Lizzie Borden) Ellen Faull (Abbie Borden) Anne Elgar (Margret Borden) Herbert Beattie (Andrew Borden) Richard Fredericks (Captain Jason MacFarlane) Richard Krause (Reverend Harrington) The Cambridge Festival Orchestra, Anton Coppola

Wiener Philharmoniker, George Szell

Corps de ballet of New York City Ballet

Isaac Stern (violin), Eugene Istomin (piano), Leonard Rose (cello)

Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Edelmiro Arnaltes (piano)

Jorge Luis Prats (piano)

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit

Zara Nelsova (cello), John Newmark (piano), Grant Johannesen (piano) Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Alexander Brott

Jacques d'Amboise

Nicholas Angelich, Pietro de Maria, Adam Neiman

Anna Mikhalchenko, Sergei Soloviev, Vladimir Vasiliev (Clown), Ekaterina Maximova (The Girl), Boris Baranovski (Harlequin), Ludmila Vlasova (The Ballerina), Victor Smirnov (The Strong Man)

Rachel Cheung (piano)

Alexander Gavryluk (piano)

Severin von Eckardstein (piano)

Vladimir Atlantov (Gusli-Player), Irina Arkhipova (Lubava), Boris Morozov (The Sea King), Tamara Milashkina (Volkhova), Nina Grigorieva (Nezhata), Andrei Sokolov (Foma), Valery Jaroslavtsev (Luka) The Bolshoi Opera, Yuri Simonov

Aldo Protti (Rigoletto), Gabriella Tucci (Gilda), Gianni Poggi (Il Duca), Paolo Washington (Sparafucile), Anna Di Stasio (Countess Ceprano/Maddalena), Silvano Pagliuca (Monterone), Amalia Pini (Giovanna) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Basile

Maya Plisetskaya Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Simonov

Patricia McBride & Jean-Pierre Bonnefou, Jacques d’Amboise & Diana Adams

Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Rosanna Carteri (Alice Ford), Scipione Colombo (Ford), Luigi Alva (Fenton), Anna Moffo (Nanetta), Fedora Barbieri (Mistress Quickly), Mario Carlin (Dr Caius), Anna Maria Canali (Meg Page), Franco Calabrese (Pistola), Renato Ercolani (Bardolfo) Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan, Tullio Serafin

Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

Jeanne-Marie Darré (piano)

Beverly Sills (Giulietta), Tatiana Troyanos (Romeo), Joey Evans (Tebaldo), Herbert Beattie (Capellio), Robert Trehy (Lorenzo) Opera Company of Boston, Sarah Caldwell, William Fred Scott

Beverly Sills (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta), Norman Treigle (Dappertutto, Coppelius, Miracle, Lindorff), André Turp (Hoffmann) New Orleans Opera Orchestra, Knud Andersson

Nikita Magaloff (piano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Thomas Hampson (narrator), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo) Neeme Järvi

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Simon Barere (piano)

Victoria de los Angeles

Lotte Lehmann (soprano)

Russell Oberlin (countertenor)

Eileen Farrell (soprano), Dino Dondi (Don Carlo), Richard Cassilly (Don Alvaro), Ara Berberian (Marquis of Calatrava), Lydia Neumann (Curra), Raymond Michalski (Fra Melitone), Nicola Moscona (Padre Guardiano), Nell Rankin (Laura), Chester Ludgin (Barnaba) Orchestra of the New Orleans Opera Association, Anton Guadagno, Renato Cellini

Catherine Malfitano (soprano), Joseph Malfitano (violin)

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Leonard Warren (baritone) Wilfred Pelletier

Josef Hofmann (piano) Curtis Institute Student Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Ignace Hilsberg

Julius Baker (flute), Lisa Logan (piano)

William Kapell (piano) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Frank Black, Ernest MacMillan

George London (baritone), John Newmark (piano)

Ilona Tokody, Juan Pons Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Ervin Lukacs