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The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Maria Reining (Marschallin), Ludwig Weber ((Baron Ochs), Sena Jurinac (Octavian), Alfred Poell (Faninal), Hilde Gueden (Sophie), Anton Dermota (Italian Singer), Peter Klein (Valzacchi), Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Annina), Judith Hellwig (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Walter Berry (Polizeikommissar) Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Erich Kleiber

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Tom Krause (bass), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Olaf Bär (bass), Richard Cohn (tenor), William Watson (counter-tenor), Patrice Michaels (soprano), Debra Austin (soprano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Sir Georg Solti

Wiener Philharmoniker, Istvan Kertesz

Mincho Minchev (violin), Francisco Gabarro (cello), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Heinz Kruse (Tenor), Endrik Wottrich (Tenor), Matthias Goerne (Baritone), Petteri Salomaa (Bass), Robert Worle (Tenor), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Bass), Oliver Widmer (Baritone), Reinhard Beyer (Bass), Monte Pederson (Baritone), László Polgár (Bass), Reinhart Ginzel (Tenor), Jorg Gottschick (Baritone), Friedrich Molsberger (Bass), Elizabeth Connell (Mezzo-Soprano), Martin Petzold (Tenor), Christianne Berggold (Mezzo-Soprano), Alfred Muff (Bass), Regina Schudel (Soprano), Peter Menzel (Tenor), Markus Kohler (Baritone), Gotthold Schwarz (Bass), Kaja Boris (Mezzo-Soprano), Herbert Lippert (Tenor), Marita Posselt (Soprano), Julian Metzger (Tenor), Henrik Czerny (Baritone), Martina Ruping (Soprano), Josef Becker (Bass) Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek

Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Alfred Poell (Il Conte Almaviva), Lisa della Casa (La Contessa Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (Marcellina), Fernando Corena (Bartolo), Murray Dickie (Basilio) Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber

Music Lab Collective (piano), Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Pascal Rogé (piano), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Jorge Bolet (piano), Max Richter (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Jóhann Jóhannsson (piano), Yuki Numata Resnick (violin), Tarn Travers (violin), Ben Russell (viola), Clarice Jensen (cello), Ola Gjeilo (piano), Thomas Gould (violin), Ciaran McCabe (violin), Jon Thorne (viola), Matthew Sharp (cello), Craig Armstrong (orchestramember), Matt Dunkley (orchestramember), Cecilia Weston (concertmaster), Brasstríó Mosfellsdals, Ólafur Arnalds (piano), Þorkell Jóelsson (frenchhorn), Emil Friðfinnsson (frenchhorn), Bergur Þórisson (trombone), Simon Mulligan (piano), Nelson Freire (piano), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Luke Howard, Rick Wakeman (piano), Guy Hughes (piano), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Wibi Soerjadi (piano), Tamás Vásáry (piano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Lambert, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague, London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paul Bateman, Sir Colin Davis, Lionel Bringuier, Yuri Ahronovitch

Alexander Ghindin (Piano), Alexander Lubimov (Piano), Thomas Trotter (Organ), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Soprano) Ernst Senff Chor, St.Petersburg Chamber Choir, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Hartmut Welker, Nicolai Gedda & Rene Pape Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Mauceri

James Saul Atkins (baritone), Marion Lowe (soprano), Alexander Young (tenor), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Joan Clark (soprano), Rosemary Thayer (soprano), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Raoul Jobin (tenor), Geraint Jones Orchestra, Geraint Jones Singers, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geraint Jones, Sir Adrian Boult

Kun-Woo Paik (Piano)

Maria Reining, Ludwig Weber, Sena Jurinac, Alfred Poell, Hilde Gueden, Judith Hellwig, Peter Klein, Hilde Rössel-Majdan Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Hans Hopf (Kaiser), Leonie Rysanek (Kaiserin), Elisabeth Hongen (Amme), Kurt Böhme (Geisterbote), Judith Hellwig (Stimme des Falken), Harald Pröglhöf (Einäugige), Oskar Czerwenka (Einarmige), Murray Dickie (Bucklige), Paul Schöffler (Barak), Hilde Rössel Majdan (Stimme von oben), Emmy Loose (Ein Hüter der Schwelle des Tempels), Karl Terkal (Erscheinung eines Jünglings) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Karl Böhm

Sara Mingardo, Sandrine Piau, Olivier Lallouette, Roberto Scaltriti, Claire Brua, Pascal Bertin Les Talens Lyriques, Christohe Rousset

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Donald Gramm (bass (vocal)), Leonardo Monreale (bass (vocal)), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Clifford Grant (bass (vocal)), Werner Krenn (tenor), English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, Richard Bonynge

Maria João Pires (piano), Jian Wang (cello), Augustin Dumay (violin), Stephen Orton (cello), Malcolm Latchem (violin), Kenneth Sillito (violin), James Levine (piano), Wolfram Christ (viola), Karl Leister (clarinet), André Previn (piano), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Bernard Greenhouse (cello), Isidore Cohen (violin), Menahem Pressler (piano), Eva Czako (cello), Georges Janzer (violin), Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Beaux Arts Trio, Grumiaux Trio

Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Birch (organ), John Lenehan (piano), John McCabe (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC Concert Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner, James Judd, Barry Wordsworth, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Nicholas Cleobury, Maxim Shostakovich

Askar Abdrazakov (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Galina Gorchakova (Leonora di Vargas), Nikolai Putilin (Don Carlo), Gegam Grigorian (Don Alvaro), Olga Borodina (Preziosilla), Georgy Zastavny (Fra Melitone), Lia Shevtzova (Curra), Mikail Kit (Padre Guardiano), Nikolai Gassiev (Mastro Trabuco), Yuri Laptev (Un Chirurgo), Gennadi Bezzubenkov (Un Alcalde) Orchestra & Chorus of the Kirov Theatre, Valery Gergiev

The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Kiri te Kanawa (Marguerite), Francisco Araiza (Faust), Evgeny Nesterenko (Méphistophélès), Andreas Schmidt (Valentin), Pamela Coburn (Siébel), Marjana Lipovsek (Marthe), Gilles Cachemaille (Wagner) Symphonie-Orchester und chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Colin Davis

Heinz Kruse (Salviago), Elizabeth Connell (Carlotta) and Monte Pederson (Tamare) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek

Quatuor Ysaÿe

Francisco Araiza (Hoffmann), Samuel Ramey (Dapertutto/Miracle/Coppélius), Anne Sofie von Otter (Nicklaus), Jessye Norman (Antonia), Eva Lind (Olympia), Cheryl Studer (Giulietta) Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Jeffrey Tate

Dario Russo (bass (vocal)), Dinara Alieva (soprano), Simona Marcello (mezzo-soprano), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Tiziano Tassi (bass (vocal)), Cristiano Olivieri (tenor), Anna Maria Chiuri (mezzo-soprano), Carlo Lepore (baritone, bass (vocal)), Riccardo Zanellato (bass (vocal)), Simone Piazzola (baritone), Matteo Armanino (bass (vocal)), Teatro Carlo Felice, Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Valerio Galli

Karita Mattila (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Francisco Araiza (Ferrando), Elzbieta Szmytka (Despina), José van Dam (Don Alfonso) Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Marcello Giordani (Gaston), Philippe Rouillon (Le comte de Toulouse), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Roger), Daniel Borowski (Ademar), Simon Edwards (Raymond), Marina Mescheriakova (Hélène), Hélène Le Corre (Isaure), Wolfgang Barta (Un soldat), Slobodan Stankovic (Un Héraut/L'Émir de Ramla), Jovo Reljin (Un officier de l'Émir) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Le Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Fabio Luisi

Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel

Tom Krause (Il Conte di Almaviva), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (La Contessa), Ileana Cotrubas (Susanna), José van Dam (Figaro), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Jules Bastin (Bartolo), Heinz Zednik (Basilio), Kurt Equiluz (Don Curzio), Christiane Barbaux (Barbarina), Zoltan Kélémén (Antonio), Christiane Barbaux & Marjon Lambriks (Due giovinette) Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Ileana Cotrubas (Susanna), José van Dam (Figaro), Tom Krause (Il Conte), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (La Contessa), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Jules Bastin (Bartolo), Heinz Zednik (Basilio), Kurt Equiluz (Curzio), Zoltán Kéléman (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina) Wiener Staatsopernorchester und-Chor, Herbert von Karajan

Mirella Freni (Butterfly), Luciano Pavarotti (Pinkterton), Christa Ludwig (Suzuki), Robert Kerns (Sharpless) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Herbert von Karajan

Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt

Joan Sutherland (Norma), Marilyn Horne (Adalgisa), John Alexander (Pollione), Richard Cross (Oroveso), Yvonne Minton (Clotilde) & Joseph Ward (Flavio) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Bonynge

Pamela Frank (violin) English Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Franz Hawlata (Baron Ochs), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Diana Damrau (Sophie), Jonas Kaufmann (The Italian Tenor), Franz Grundheber (Faninal), Jane Henschel (Annina), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Valzacchi), Irmgard Vilsmaier (Marianne) Munchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann

Ludovico Einaudi (piano, acousticguitar, electricbassguitar, celesta, moogbass, glockenspiel, bassguitar), Alice Costamagna (violin), Svetlana Fomina (viola), Antonio Leofreddi (viola), Marco Decimo (cello, glockenspiel), Federico Mecozzi (violin), Alberto Fabris (guitar, bassguitar), Daniel Hope (violin), Mauro Durante (violin, tambourine), Alberto Martini (violin), Antonio Aiello (violin), Constantin Beschieru (violin), Carlo Menozzi (violin), Ilaria Miori (violin), Alessandra Vianello (violin), Luca Falasca (violin), Alberto Ambrosini (violin), Giorgio Baldan (violin), Vinicio Capriotti (violin), Ingrid Shllaku (violin), Flavio Ghilardi (viola), Ciro Chiapponi (viola), Alessandro Pandolfi (viola), Luca Serpini (viola), Leonardo Sapere (cello), Riviera Lazeri (cello), Giordano Pegoraro (cello), Sante Braia (doublebass), Cristiano Scipioni (doublebass), Redi Hasa (cello, electriccello), Antonio Caggiano (percussion), Fulvia Ricevuto (percussion), Gianluca Ruggeri (percussion), Antonino Errera (percussion), Franco Feruglio (doublebass), Francesca Tirale (harp), Greta Svabo Bech (vocalist), Per I. H. Petersen (drumkit), Fred Ruddick (recordingarranger, programmer), Paul J Geissinger (drumprogrammer, synthesizer), Francesco Arcuri (keyboard), I Virtuosi Italiani, PMCE Parco Della Musica Contempornea Ensemble

Renee Fleming (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Adelina Scarabelli (Despina), Frank Lopardo (Ferrando), Olaf Bar (Guglielmo), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Georg Solti

Fiorenza Cossotto (Leonora), Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando), Gabriel Bacquier (Alfonso), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Baldassare), Piero De Palma (Don Gasparo), Ileana Cotrubas (Ines) Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Richard Bonynge

Eduardo Fernandez (Guitar), Pepe Romero (Guitar), Celin Romero (Guitar), Celedonio Romero (Guitar), Alexandre Lagoya (Guitar), Ida Presti (Guitar), Angel Romero (Guitar), Barry Davis (Cor Anglais) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Kenneth Sillito, George Malcolm, Sir Neville Marriner

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)

Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Luciano Pavarotti & Cornelius Opthof London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Dame Joan Sutherland (Marguerite), Franco Corelli (Faust), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Mephistopheles), Raymond Myers (Wagner), Robert Massard (Valentin), Margreta Elkins (Siebel), Monica Sinclair (Marthe) London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge

Renée Fleming (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Adelina Scarabelli (Despina), Frank Lopardo (Ferrando), Olaf Bär (Guglielmo), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Sir Georg Solti

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

Vladimir Galusin (Grishka Kutyer'ma), Galina Gorchakova (Fevroniya), Nikolai Putilin (Fyodor Poyarok), Nikolai Ohotnikov (Yury Vsevolodovich), Yevgeny Boitsov (Merchant I), Evgeny Fedorov (Merchant II), Nikolai Gassiev (Bear Trainer), Olga Korzhenskaya (Youth), Larissa Diadkova (Alkonost) Kirov Opera & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev

Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), Leo Nucci (Figaro), William Matteuzzi (Almaviva), Enrico Fissore (Bartolo), Paata Burchuladze (Basilio) Orchestra e coro del Teatro Communale di Bologna, Giuseppe Patané

The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Montserrat Caballé (Gioconda), Luciano Pavarotti (Enzo), Agnes Baltsa (Laura), Sherrill Milnes (Barnaba), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Alvise), Alfreda Hodgson (La Cieca), John Del Carlo (Zuàne), Stephen Varcoe (Un Cantore), Regolo Romani (Isèpo), Neil Jenkins (Un Pilota) London Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Bartoletti

Vladimir Vaneyev (Boris), Vladimir Galouzine (Grigory/False Dmitry), Olga Borodina (Marina), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Pimen), Fyodor Kuznetsov (Varlaam), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Shuisky), Nikolai Gassiev (Missail), Evgeny Nikitin (Rangoni), Zlata Bulycheva (Fyodor), Olga Trifonova (Xenia), Liubov Sokolova (Hostess), Yevgeny Akimov (Simpleton), Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya (Nurse) Orchestra and Chorus of the Kirov Theatre St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

Elisabeth Söderström & Vladimir Ashkenazy

Bulat Minjelkiev (Ivan Khovansky), Vladimir Galusin (Andrey Khovansky), Alexei Steblianko (Golitsyn), Nikolai Ohotnikov (Dosifey), Olga Borodina (Marfa), Valery Alexeev (Shaklovity), Yelena Prokina (Emma), Vassily Gerelo (Streshniev) Kirov and Orchestra St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev

Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Emperor Phorcas), Louis Quilico (L'Evèque de Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas), Robert Lloyd (Cléomer), Ian Caley (A Saracen Envoy), Graham Clark (A Byzantine Herald) The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Nicolai Ghiaurov (Boris), Olivera Miljakovic (Fyodor), Aleksei Maslennikov (Shuisky/Simpleton), Martti Talvela (Pimen), Ludovic Spiess (Grigory/False Dmitry), Anton Diakov (Varlaam), Nadejda Dobrianova (Xenia), Galina Vishnevskaya (Marina) Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello) London Symphony Orchestra, Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn, Charles Dutoit

Irena Grafenauer (Flute), Maria Graf (Harp), Frederica von Stade (Mezzo-Soprano), Barry Tuckwell (Horn & Director), Margaret Marshall (Soprano), Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (Bass), Michael Laird (Posthorn), Peter Schmidl (Clarinet), Members Of The New Vienna Octet, Michael Kraus (Baritone), Lotte Leitner (Soprano), Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Mitsuko Uchida (Piano), András Schiff (Piano), Daniel Majeske (Violin), Robert Vernon (Viola), Hermann Prey (Baritone), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano), Helen Donath (Soprano), London Symphony Chorus (Chorus), Pilar Lorengar (Soprano), Teresa Berganza (Mezzo-Soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (Baritone), Jeffrey Tate (Harpsichord), Gabriel Bacquier (Bass), Edith Mathis (Soprano), Gundula Janowitz (Soprano), Joshua Bell (Violin), Dame Joan Sutherland (Soprano), Rundfunkchor Leipzig (Chorus), Cristina Deutekom (Soprano), Sylvia McNair (Soprano), Karl Leister (Clarinet), James Vivian (Organ), José van Dam (Bass), Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone), Iona Brown (Violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Members of the Academy of St. Martin i, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Neville Marriner, Stephen Cleobury, Sándor Végh, Christoph von Dohnanyi, James Levine, Sir Colin Davis, Carlo Maria Giulini, Karl Böhm, Peter Maag, Richard Bonynge, Peter Schreier, Herbert von Karajan

Tatiana Troyanos (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Kiri Te Kanawa (Micaëla), José van Dam (Escamillo), Norma Burrowes (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Thomas Allen (Moralès) London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Sir Georg Solti

Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo) Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge