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Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

James Bowman (counter-tenor), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Richard Campbell (viola da gamba), Catherine Bott (soprano), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), The Academy Of Ancient Music Chorus, Paul Esswood (countertenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Stafford Dean (bass), Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge The Academy of Ancient Music, English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, Benjamin Britten, George Guest

Claude Helffer (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte‐Carlo, Louis Frémaux

Hannes Läubin, Wolfgang Läubin, Bernhard Läubin (trumpets), Don Smithers (trumpet/cornetto) Simon Preston (organ)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Ion Marin

Egon Petri (piano)

Philip Langridge (tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Michael Rippon (bass), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Nona Liddell (violin), London Sinfonietta, David Atherton

Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati

Renate Holm (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor), Sonja Draksler (singer), Peter Minich (tenor), Herbert Prikopa (baritone, singer), Marika Nemeth (soprano, singer), Monika Dahlberg (singer), Wiener Volksopernorchester, Élémer Horváth Gypsy Band, Wiener Grosstadtkinderchor, Wiener Volksopernchor, Anton Paulik

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Julia Varady (soprano), Aldo Baldin (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Academy of St. Martin of the Fields, Neville Marriner

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Bella Davidovich (piano)

Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Carlo Franzini (tenor), Boris Carmeli (bass) L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Les Chœurs de la Radio Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Anton Dermota (tenor), Else Schurhoff (mezzo-soprano), Walter Berry (bass (vocal)), Herbert Alsen (bass (vocal)), Hans Braun (baritone), Ljubomir Pantscheff (bass (vocal)), Christel Goltz (soprano), Hermann Gallos (tenor), Julius Patzak (tenor), Margareta Kenney (mezzo-soprano), Rudolf Christ (tenor), Hugo Meyer-Welfing (tenor), Kurt Preger (baritone), Murray Dickie (tenor), Franz Bierbach (bass (vocal)), Ludwig Weber (bass (vocal)), Harald Pröglhöf (bass (vocal)), Wiener Philharmoniker, Clemens Krauss

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

Mikhaïl Faerman (piano), Youri Egorov (piano)

Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Erich Kleiber, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Josef Veselka (chorusmaster), Josef Vesalka (chorusmaster), Maria Stader (soprano), Oralia Dominguez (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Michel Roux (bass), Czech Chorus, Prague, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch

Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Eli Goren (violin), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Alan Loveday (violin), Stephen Shingles (viola) Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner

Ts'ong Fou (piano), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor), Wiener Staatsoper, Victor Desarzens

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Antal Dorati, London Sinfonietta, Sir William Walton, Argo Chamber Ensemble, Gennady Zalkowitsch

Bella Davidovich (piano)

Veronica Jochum von Moltke (piano)

Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Thomas Jansen

Denis Vigay (cello), Raymund Koster (doublebass), Susan Milan (flute), Graham Sheen (bassoon), Iona Brown (violin), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Malcolm Latchem (violin), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray

Wolfgang Schulz (flute), Gerhard Turetschek (oboe), Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Volker Altmann (french horn), Fritz Faltl (bassoon), Vienna Wind Soloists

Wolfgang Schulz (flute), Gerhard Turetschek (oboe), Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Volker Altmann (french horn), Fritz Faltl (bassoon), Vienna Wind Soloists

Rudolf Firkušný (piano)

Jan Smeterlin (piano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

Elly Ameling (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard

Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

August Jaresch (tenor), Rosette Anday (mezzo-soprano, contralto), Julius Patzak (tenor), Alfred Poell (baritone), Karl Dönch (bass (vocal)), Kurt Preger (tenor, baritone), Emmy Loose (soprano), Stefii Leverenz (soprano, mezzo-soprano), Hilde Zadek (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Clemens Krauss

Deryck Cooke (narrator), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Walter Weller, Sir Georg Solti

Joan Sutherland (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), Anton Dermota (tenor), Arnold van Mill (bass) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Choeur du Brassus, Choeur des Jeunes de l’Église National de Vandoise, Ernest Ansermet

Friedrich Gulda (piano), Ruggiero Ricci (violin)

Anthony Rooley (lute & director) The Consort of Musicke

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Ts'ong Fou (piano), English Chamber Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnányi, Lorin Maazel

Jörg Demus (fortepiano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Kenneth Alwyn

Andor Foldes (piano)

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet

Camille Maurane (baritone), Lily Bienvenu (piano) Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Jean Fournet

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Eduard van Beinum

Jacqueline Delman (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), George Maran (tenor), Bruce Boyce (baritone) & Michael Cunningham (treble) London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir & Hampstead Parish Church Boys’ Choir, Josef Krips

Purcell Consort of Voices, Elizabethan Consort of Viols, Grayston Burgess

Steven Staryk (violin), Tibor de Machula (cello), Phia Berghout (harp), Hugh Maguire (violin), Kenneth Heath (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari

John Wakefield (Ormindo), Peter-Christoph Runge (Amida), Isabel Garcisanz (Nerillo), Hanneke van Bork (Sicle), Jean Allister (Melide), Hugues Cuénod (Erice), Anne Howells (Erisebe), Jane Berbié (Mirinda), Federico Davia (Ariadeno), Richard Van Allan (Osmano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard

Frank Phillips (narrator), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Nicolai Malko, Erik Tuxen, Sir Adrian Boult, Jean Martinon

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Henri Helaerts (bassoon), Jacques Ibert (cadenzor), London Mozart Players, London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins

Richard Holm (tenor), Kim Borg (bass), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Maria Stader (soprano), Helmut Krebs (tenor), Helmut Elbl (videoscripteditor), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto), Josef Greindl (bass), Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der St. Hedwig's-Kathedrale, Berlin, Igor Markevitch