Warner Classics

Angela Gheorghiu London Symphony Orchestra, Evelino Pido

Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Andrei Gavrilov (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Christa Ludwig (Carmen), Melitta Muszely (Micaëla), Ursula Schirrmacher (Frasquita), Ursula Gust (Mercédès), Rudolf Schock (Don José), Hermann Prey (Escamillo); Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Symphoniker, Horst Stein

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham

Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti

The Endellion String Quartet

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger & Stephen Cleobury

Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades

Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

Maria Callas (Aida), Richard Tucker (Radamès), Fedora Barbieri (Amneris), Tito Gobbi (Amonasro), Giuseppe Modesti (Ramfis) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin

Gerhard Unger (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Kurt Wehofschitz (tenor), Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Raymond Wolansky (baritone), Franz Crass (bass), Jon Vickers (tenor), Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer

Philippa Davies (flute) Chilingirian Quartet & Markus Klinko & ensemble

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier

Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)

David Oistrakh (violin), Lev Oborin (piano), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Pierre Fournier (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Alceo Galliera

Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble

Maria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines), Renato Ercolani (Ruiz), Giulio Mauri (Un vecchio zingaro), Renato Ercolani (Un messo) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Herbert von Karajan

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Bryn Terfel (bass), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Peter Bronder (tenor), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras

Pablo Casals (cello)

Walter Gieseking (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Malcolm Sargent & Vernon Handley

András Schiff (piano), Andreas Florczak (digital editor)

José Serebrier

Dennis Brain (horn)

Jonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke (Mathieu), Carlo Bosi (The Incredibile), Peter Hoare (Abbé), Jeremy White (Schmidt), John Cunningham (Major Domo), Yuriy Yurchuk (Dumas) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano (conductor & David McVicar (director)

Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, José van Dam, Simon Keenlyside, Marie-Ange Todorovitch & Alain Fondary Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson

Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello) & Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello) & Gabriela Montero (piano), Andrey Baranov (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) & Cristina Marton (piano), Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano) & Alessandro Stella (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Andrey Baranov (violin), Michael Guttman (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Alexandre Debrus (cello) Enrico Fagone, double bass - Alfred Rutz, flute - Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet – Gregorio Di Trapani, percussion Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Hubert Soudant

Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Mikhail Rudy (piano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Dresdner Philharmonie, Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michel Plasson, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jeffrey Tate, Marek Janowski, Otto Klemperer

Martha Argerich, Renaud Capucon & Gautier Capucon, Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon & Chen, Martha Argerich & Piotr Anderszewski, Mischa Maisky & Sergio Tiempo, Martha Argerich & Gabriela Montero, Lechner & Sergio Tiempo, Martha Argerich & Leschenko, Zilberstein, Schwarzberg, Hall, Romanoff-Schwarzberg & Dobrins, Vallina & Martha Argerich

Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Carol Vaness (Donna Anna), Maria Ewing (Donna Elvira), Elizabeth Gale (Zerlina), Keith Lewis (Don Ottavio), Richard van Allan (Leporello), John Rawnsley (Masetto), Dimitri Kavrakos (Il Commendatore) Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Sergei Edelmann (piano), Lily Maisky (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Daniel Rivera (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Mark Dobrinskji (cello), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Danilo Grassi (percussion), Louis Sauvêtre (percussion), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Gabriela Montero (piano), Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Natalia Margulis (cello), Alessandro Stella (piano), Carlo Maria Griguoli (piano), Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Alexander Gurning (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), Jorge Andres Bosso (cello), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Jacek Kaspszyk

Angela Gheorghiu (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Inva Mula (Micaëla), Thomas Hampson (Escamillo) La Lauzeta, Choeur d'enfants de Toulouse, Choeur 'Les Éléments', Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson

Peter Donohoe (piano), Nigel Kennedy (violin) & Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo), Greet Koeman (Euridice), Nel Duval (Amore) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Chorus & Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera, Bruno Walter, Herbert von Karajan, Charles Bruck

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Kurt Moll (Landgraf) Bernard Haitink

Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund), Gottlob Frick (Heinrich), Otto Wiener (Herald) Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe

Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Witold Lutoslawski

Placido Domingo, Nina Stemme, Olaf Bar, Rene Pape Royal Opera House Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Andrew Dudman (music editor), Igelese Ete (choir director), Jennifer Dunnington (music editor), Karen Elliott (production co-ordinator), Michael McCarthy (choir director), Michael Price (music editor), Nancy Allen (music editor), Simon Kiln (music editor), Suzana Peric (music editor), Terry Edwards (choir director), featuring Edward Ross (boys choir, performed by), Chris O'Connor (percussion), David Donaldson (music), David Long (music), Grant Shearer (music), Janet Roddick (music), Peter Daly (music), Ruairidh Morrison (music), Steve Roche (music), Edward Ross (solo vocals, featured vocals), Igelese Ete (Choir Master) (choir director), Marie Ebbing (music editor), Mark Willsher (music editor), The London Oratory School Schola (boys choir), Enya (vocals), Elizabeth Fraser (featured vocals), Nicky Ryan (audio recording engineer), London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Voices, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Igelese Ete (Choir Master), Michael McCarthy (Choir Master), Terry Edwards (Choir Master), Howard Shore

David Oistrakh, Paul Tortelier, Truls Mork, Mikhail Rudy, Dmitry Sitkovetsky Paavo Berglund, Maxim Shostakovich, Andrew Davis, Mariss Jansons

Plácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini

Jacques Jansen, Irène Joachim, Henri-Bertrand Etcheverry, Germaine Cernay, Paul Cabanel & Leila ben Sedira, Maggie Teyte & Alfred Cortot / Mary Garden & Claude Debussy Chœurs Yvonne Gouverné & Orchestre Symphonique, Roger Désormière

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Wiener Philharmoniker, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Elias David Moncado (violin), Mirabelle Kajenjeri (piano)

Kenji Miura (piano)

Alban Berg Quartett

Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)

Johanna Martzy (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Kletzki

Walter Gieseking (piano)

Maria Callas (soprano) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra & Paris Opéra Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno

Il Giardino Armonico

David Oistrakh (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo), Roberto Alagna (tenor) & Julian Konstantinov (bass) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Swedish Radio Chorus, Claudio Abbado