Warner Classics

Boris Berezovsky (piano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham

Andrei Gavrilov (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti

Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Georges Gautier, Gabriel Bacquier, Ghyslaine Raphanel, Magali Damonte, François le Roux & Antoine David Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Janet Baker, Gerald Moore & Geoffrey Parsons

Roberto Alagna, Leontina Vaduva, Ruth Ann Swenson, Thomas Hampson, Simon Keenlyside & Samuel Ramey London Voices, London Oratory Junior Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle

Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Gerald Moore

Alison Balsom (trumpet), with Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) The Guy Barker Orchestra, Guy Barker

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano

Maria Callas (Rosina), Tito Gobbi (Figaro), Luigi Alva (Almaviva), Fritz Ollendorf (Bartolo), Nicola Zaccaria (Basilio), Gabriella Carturan (Berta), Mario Carlin (Fiorello) Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Alceo Galliera

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown

Walter Gieseking (piano)

Montserrat Caballé (Aida), Plácido Domingo (Radamès), Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Luigi Roni (The King of Egypt), Nicola Marinucci (Messenger) & Esther Casas (Priestess) Royal Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Jane Eaglen (Elisabeth), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Rene Pape (Hermann, Landgraaf von Thuringen), Peter Seiffert (Tannhauser), Thomas Hampson (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Gunnar Gudbjornsson (Walther von der Vogelweide), Hanno Muller-Brachman (Biterolf), Stephan Rugamer (Heinrich der Schreiber), Alfred Reiter (Reinmar von Zweter) & Dorothea Roschmann (Ein junger Hirt) Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn

Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki), Renato Ercolani (Goro), Mario Carlin (Yamadori), Plinio Clabassi (Lo zio Bonzo), Enrico Campi (Il commissario imperiale), Luisa Villa (Kate Pinkerton) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Herbert von Karajan

Gabriel Bacquier (Guillaume Tell), Montserrat Caballé (Mathilde), Nicolai Gedda (Arnaud), Jocelyne Taillon (Hedwige), Mady Mesplé (Jemmy), Gwynne Howell (Melchtal), Louis Hendriks (Gesler), Kolos Kovacs (Walter Furst) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli

Fatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel

Busch Quartet

Kyung-Wha Chung, Sviatoslav Richter, Martha Argerich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Tabea Zimmermann Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík, Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Libor Pesek, David Shallon, Eugene Ormandy

Les Vents Français, Eric le Sage (piano)

Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell), John Osborn (Arnaud), Malin Byström (Mathilde), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Hedwige), Matthew Rose (Walter Furst), Frédéric Caton (Melchtal), Elena Xanthoudakis (Jemmy), Carlo Cigni (Gesler), Carlo Bosi (Rodolphe), Celso Albelo (Ruodi), Dawid Kimberg (Leuthold), Davide Malvestio (Un Chasseur) Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano

Maria Guleghina (Giorgetta), Neil Shicoff (Luigi), Carlo Guelfi (Michele), Christian Gallardo-Domas (Angelica), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (La zia principessa), Elena Zilio (Frugola/Zita), Roberto Alagna (Rinuccio), Angela Gheorghiu (Lauretta), José van Dam (Schicchi) London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Maria Callas (Gilda), Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Giuseppe di Stefano (Il Duca), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone), William Dickie (Marullo), Renato Ercolani (Borsa), Giuse Gerbino (Giovanna), Carlo Forti (Il Conte di Ceprano), Elvira Galassi (La Contessa di Ceprano) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin

Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Angelotti) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Victor de Sabata

Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Anne Queffélec (piano), Catherine Collard (piano)

David Orlowsky, David Bergmüller

Fazil Say (piano)

Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt

Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

John Treleaven (Tristan), Christine Brewer (Isolde), Dagmar Peckova (Brangaene), Peter Rose (Konig Marke), Boaz Daniel (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Eugene Ginty (Hirt), Jonathan Lemalu (Steuerman), Mark Le Brocq (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles

Bruno Walter

Midori (violin), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Gerd Nienstedt (bass), Heljä Angervo (contralto), Kurt Rydl (bass), Wiesław Ochman (tenor), Helge von Bömches (bass), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Hildegard Behrens (soprano), Horst Nitsche (tenor), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Karl-Walter Böhm (tenor), David Knutson (tenor), Erich Kunz (baritone), Gerhard Unger (tenor), Heinz Zednik (tenor), Jules Bastin (bass), Martin Vantin (tenor), Dieter Ellenbeck (tenor), Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Olivier Latry (organ), Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru

Vilde Frang (violin), Michail Lifits (piano)

Eric Lu (piano)

Sarah Fox, Deborah Norman, Michael Chance, James Gilchrist, Jonathan Lemalu Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

Christa Ludwig (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Walter Berry (Don Pizarro), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline), Gerhard Unger (Jaquino), Franz Crass (Don Fernando) Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Yoav Levanon (piano)

Yoav Levanon (piano), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling

Itzhak Perlman (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe

Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) & Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Male voices of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Ernst-Senff-Chor, Daniel Barenboim

Saya Hashino (organ), Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Frank Strobel

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Cappella Neapolitana, Antonio Florio

Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) & Jonathan Manson (cello continuo), with Silvia Careddu (flute)

Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Karita Mattila (Tove), Anne Sofie von Otter (Waldtaube), Thomas Moser (Waldemar), Philip Langridge (Klaus-Narr), Thomas Quasthoff (Bauer/Sprecher), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Franz Mazura (narrator) Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Ernst-Senff-Chor Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor) & Otto Edelmann (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra & Chor der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Herbert von Karajan

Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano), Robert Lloyd (bass), Nina Walker (piano), Frederick Harvey (baritone), Jack Byfield (piano), Sir Philip Ledger (piano), Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano), Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders, Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute), Michael Chance (countertenor), Christopher Wilson (lute), Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (harpsichord), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Boothby (lute), Owen Brannigan (bass), Ernest Lush (piano), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano), Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, Alan Civil (horn), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (bass-baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Pauline Lowbury (violin), John Noble (baritone) Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Fretwork, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir David Willcocks, Christopher Finzi, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Charles Groves, Bernard Haitink, George Weldon

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Allegri String Quartet (string quartet), Kim Borg (bass), Richard Lewis (tenor), Peter Dawson (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, Hallé Choir, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Unknown Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Marc André (double bass), Véronique Teruel (piano), Gabriel Bianco (guitar)