Decca

Jorge Bolet (piano)

Hilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida) Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Josef Suk & Julius Katchen

Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Patricia Bardon, John Mark Ainsley Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Paul Daniel

Nicola Benedetti (violin), with Julie Fowlis, Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)

Janine Jansen (violin) & Itmar Golan (piano)

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), James Levine (piano)

Peter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano)

Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Erich Kleiber

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Isabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale) Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

Leontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa) Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti

Wiener Oktett, Wiener Bläsersolisten

Vladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Accademia Byzantina, Ottavio Dantone

Ildar Abdrazakov (baritone), Michele Pertusi (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Nelson Calzi (fortepiano) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly

The Kanneh--Masons, with Michael Morpurgo and Olivia Colman

Joseph Calleja (tenor), Renée Fleming (soprano), Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano), Mantovani & His Orchestra, The Mantovani Orchestra, Annunzio Paulo Mantovani

Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (piano)

Renée Fleming (soprano) Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of St Luke's, Patrick Summers

Teresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Rolando Panerai, Giuliana Travolaccini, Miti Truccata Pace, Paolo Montarsolo & Luigi Alva Orchestra a Coro del Maggio & Musicale Fiorentino, Silvio Varviso

Janine Jansen (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt

Chantal Juillet (violin), Pascal Rogé (piano), Truls Mørk (cello)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Glen Ellyn Childrens Chorus, Sir Georg Solti

José Carreras (Werther), Frederica von Stade (Charlotte), Isobel Buchanan (Sophie), Thomas Allen (Albert), Robert Lloyd (Le Bailli), Malcolm King (Johann), Paul Crook (Schmidt), Donaldson Bell (Brühlmann), Linda Humphries (Kätchen) Orchestra & Children's Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Pascal Rogé (piano), George Malcolm (organ) The Philharmonia Orchestra & L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande etc, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Charles Dutoit/Sergiu Commissiona, Iona Brown

Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Chailly

Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth), Philip Langridge (Essex), Della Jones (Lady Essex), Jonathan Summers (Charles Blount), Alan Opie (Cecil), Yvonne Kenny (Lady Rich), Bryn Terfel (Henry Cuffe), Richard van Allan (Walter Ralegh) Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras

Sir Georg Solti

Ray Chen (violin)

Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo Talbot), Piero Cappuccilli (Riccardo Forth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giorgio Walton), Anita Caminada (Enrichetta de France), Gian Carlo Luccardi (Gualtiero Walton), Renato Cazzaniga (Bruno Robertson) Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Cecilia Bartoli & András Schiff

Hilary Hahn (violin)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Cecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar) Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly

Dalibor Jedlicka, Vladimir Krejcik, Lucia Popp, Richard Novák, Eva Randová Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Marilyn Horne, Pilar Lorengar, Helen Donath Royal Opera House Orchestra, Georg Solti

Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer

András Schiff (piano)

Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Yvonne Minton The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Richard Hickox, Adrian Boult

Chantal Juillet (violin), Guy Fouquet (cello) Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli (Normanno) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

[b]Das Rheingold[/b] George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Oda Balsborg (Woglinde), Hetty Plümacher (Wellgunde), Ira Malaniuk (Flosshilde) [b]Die Walküre[/b] James King (Siegmund), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), Gottlob Frick (Hunding), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Brigitte Fassbaender (Waltraute), Berit Lindholm (Helmwige), Helga Dernesch (Ortlinde), Vera Schlosser (Gerhilde), Helen Watts (Schwertleite), Vera Little (Siegrune), Claudia Hellmann (Rossweise), Marilyn Tyler (Grimgerde) [b]Siegfried[/b] Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Hans Hotter (Wanderer), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Marga Höffgen (Erda), Joan Sutherland (Waldvogel) [b]Götterdämmerung[/b] Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute), Lucia Popp (Woglinde), Gwyneth Jones (Wellgunde), Maureen Guy (Flosshilde), Helen Watts (Erste Norn), Grace Hoffman (Zweite Norn), Anita Välkki (Dritte Norn) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

Elisabetta Scano (soprano), Cristina Gallardo-Domas (soprano), Juan Diego Florez, Kenneth Tarver (tenors), Eldar Aliev, Michele Pertusi (basses) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly

András Schiff (piano) members of the Hagen Quartet with Alois Posch (double bass)

Lakes, Voigt, Pollet Chorus and Orchestra Montreal, Charles du Toit

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Normanno), Ana Raquel Satra (Alisa) Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir John Pritchard

Alexander Kerr (violin) Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Régine Crespin (soprano) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Wiener Volksopernorcheste, Alain Lombard & Georges Sebastian

James King (tenor), Régine Crespin (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Hans Hotter (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Helen Watts (contralto), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Vera Little (mezzo-soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti