Decca

Sir Georg Solti

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

[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

Arleen Augér, Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley & David Thomas Winchester Cathedral Choir & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

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

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

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

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

Anthony Roth Costanzo (countertenor) Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Janine Jansen (violin), with Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Itamar Golan (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

Siegfried Jerusalem London Philharmonia and Suisse Romande Orchestra, Georg Solti and Jesus Lopez-Cobos

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang

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

Jess Gillam (saxophones)

Alexander Kerr (violin) Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

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

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano

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

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

The Medieval Ensemble of London (Medieval instruments rebec, fiddle, douçaine, gittern and lute, join alto, tenor and baritone voices from within the Ensemble), Peter Davies & Timothy Davies

Lucie Horsch (recorder, flute), Carel Kraayenhof (bandoneon), Dani Luca (cimbalom), Sean Shibe (guitar), Bao Sissoko (lute), Fuse, LUDWIG Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

London Symphony Orchestra (orchestra/member), Joe Hisaishi (piano, melodica), Roman Simovic (orchestra leader), New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra (orchestra/member), Yasushi Toyoshima (orchestra leader), Joe Hisaishi Ensemble, Alexander Balanescu (violin), Thomas Pilz (violin), Chris Pitsillides (viola), Nick Holland (cello), Jun Sato (bass guitar), Hirofumi Kinjo (woodwinds), Masamiki Takano (woodwinds), Momoko Kamiya (marimba, percussion), Marie Oishi (marimba, percussion), Pan Strings (strings), Yasue Sawako (percussion), Koji Kyotani (bandoneon), Masayoshi Furukawa (guitar), Hiroyuki Koike Strings (strings), Orchestra Città di Ferrara (orchestra/member), Nobuo Yagi (harmonica), Angèle Dubeau (violin), Emilie Pare (strings), Natalia Kononova (strings), Natacha Gauthier (strings), Myriam Pelletier (strings), Marilou Robitaille (strings), Gwendolyn Smith (strings), Anne-Marie Leblanc (strings), Mariane Charlebois-Deschamps (strings), Eiko Onuki (cello), Yuko Taguchi (harp), Reiko Komatu (percussion, marimba), Igor Spallati (upright bass), Keiko Daito (cello), Takayoshi Sakurai (cello), Shigeo Horiuchi (cello), Mikiko Mimori (cello), Robin Dupuy (cello), Eiichiro Nakada (cello), Mikio Unno (cello), Akina Karasawa (cello), Yumiko Morooka (cello), Nobuo Furukawa (cello), Ludovit Kanta (cello), Micol Picchioni (harp)

Marcus Creed (baritone), Richard Morton (tenor) Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Simon Preston

Mark Padmore (tenor), Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Julia Fischer (violin)

Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Avi Avital (mandolin), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Craig Ogden (guitar) Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Carlo Tenan

Felicity Lott (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Samuel Magad (violin), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), William Shimell (baritone), Chicago Symphony Chorus (chorus) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

Matthias Goerne (Baritone), Eric Schneider (Piano)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Joshua Bell (violin), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) & Steven Isserlis (cello) Takács Quartet

Joseph Calleja (tenor) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marco Armiliato

Cynthia Clarey (mezzo), Martin Robertson (Saxophone), Gareth Hulse (oboe, cor anglais), Helen Tunstall (harp), John Constable (celesta), John Wallace (trumpet), Håkan Hardenberger, John Wallace (trumpets) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Bernard Haitink, Andrew Davis, Oliver Knussen, Daniel Harding, Peter Rundel

Aquiles Machado, Alessandra Marc, Carlos Álvarez, Jane Henschel, Ana Maria Martínez Coro i Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, José de Eusebio

Nicole Cabell (soprano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis

Barry Tuckwell (horn and director) English Chamber Orchestra

Jorge Bolet (piano)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt

Chicago Symphony Chorus (chorus), Malcolm King (bass), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), José van Dam (bass), Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (chorus) Chorus, Sir Georg Solti

Pascal Rogé (piano)

Daniela Mars (flute, flabiol), Andrea Haines (soprano), Ailsa Campbell (soprano), Katie Jeffries-Harris (alto), Barnaby Smith (countertenor), Blake Morgan (tenor), Euan Williamson (tenor), Christopher Moore (baritone), Dominic Carver (bass), Christophe Duquesne (ondesmartenot), Teena Lyle (percussion), Neil Valentine (electricviola), Paul Smith (piano), Voces8

Peter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano)

Kyung Wha Chung (violin) London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Ruth Slenczynska (piano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

Renée Fleming English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate

Plínio Fernandes (guitar), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Maria Rita (vocals), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano & conductor) The Cleveland Orchestra

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Celia Nicklin (oboe & cor anglais) & Michael Laird (trumpet) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek

Renée Fleming (Thaïs), Thomas Hampson (Athanael), Giuseppe Sabbatini (Nicias), Estefano Palatchi (Palemon) Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel

Ailyn Pérez, Christianne Stotijn, Michael Spyres, Jan Martínik, Kateřina Kněžíková, Svatopluk Sem; Czech Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jiří Bělohlávek, Jakub Hrůša

Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky