Decca

Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Spiro Malas & Monica Sinclair Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge

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

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

Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)

Renée Fleming (soprano) Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Erich Kleiber

Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Frizza

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

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

Choir of New College, Oxford & Academy of Ancient Music, Edward Higginbottom

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

King's College Cambridge Choir, St John's College Cambridge Choir, Westminster Cathedral Choir, Nicholas Cleobury and George Guest

Renée Fleming (Daphne), Johan Botha (Apollos), Michael Schade (Leukippos), Kwanchul Youn (Peineios), Anna Larsson (Gaea) Orchestra & Chorus of West Deutscher Rundfunk, Semyon Bychkov

Joshua Bell (violin), Olli Mustonen (piano) & Steven Isserlis (cello) Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

Plácido Domingo (tenor), Sarah Brightman (soprano), Paul Miles-Kingston (treble) Choir of Winchester Cathedral & English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Vladimir Ashkenazy

New London Consort, Philip Pickett

Peter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

Jorge Bolet (piano)

Nelson Freire (piano) Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Lionel Bringuier

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

London Symphony Orchestra & Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Monteux & Herbert Von Karajan

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Lise Davidsen (soprano)

Voces8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Tin

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Marie Collier (Chrystothemis), Gerhard Stolze (Aegisth), Tom Krause (Orest) Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti

Alisa Weilerstein (cello) Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Pablo Heras-Casado

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

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

Janine Jansen (violin) & Itmar Golan (piano)

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

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

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

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

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

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

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

Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Chailly

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

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

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

Cecilia Bartoli & András Schiff

Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (piano)

Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Accademia Byzantina, Ottavio Dantone

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

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

Hilary Hahn (violin)

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

Janine Jansen (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth

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

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

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

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy