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London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Clara Haskil (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Heather Harper (soloist), Clifford Curzon (piano), Nadia Boulanger, Ian Partridge (soloist), Bernadette Greevy (soloist), John Carol Case (soloist), Janet Price (soloist), Karl Engel, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (soloist), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Peter Pears (soloist), Hans Wilbrink (soloist), Stefania Woytowicz (soloist), John Ogdon (piano), Dame Janet Baker (soloist), Ronald Dowd (soloist), Franz Crass (soloist), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Peinemann, Paul Tortelier (cello), Ernest Lush, Rudolf Serkin (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, New Philharmonia Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Brain Wind Quintet, Klaus Tennstedt, Constantin Silvestri, Sir John Barbirolli, Pierre Boulez, Jascha Horenstein, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Adrian Boult, Benjamin Britten, Evgeny Svetlanov, Geroge Szell, George Szell, Sir Malcolm Sargent, John Hollingsworth, Rudolf Kempe, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir John Pritchard

Pierre Monteux

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham

Sena Jurinac (soloist), Christa Ludwig (soloist), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), John Mitchinson (soloist), Heather Harper (soloist), Peter Pears (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (soloist), John Shirley-Quirk (soloist), Donald Mitchell, Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marianne Häggander (soloist), Robert Tear (soloist), Gwynne Howell (soloist), Shura Cherkassky (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Henryk Szeryng (violin), José Luis Garcia, Emil Gilels (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, The Men’s Voices of the BBC Northern Singers, Aldeburgh Festival Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent, André Cluytens, Pierre Monteux, Wilhelm Kempff, Leopold Stokowski, Jascha Horenstein, Benjamin Britten, Klaus Tennstedt, Sir Georg Solti, Eugen Jochum, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Lucretia West (contralto) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos

Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Howell Glynne (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Shepherd) & Rhydderch Davies (Jailer) Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Shura Cherkassky (piano) BBC Scottish SO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Adey, Richard Hickox

Claudio Arrau (piano)

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)

Käthe Möller-Siepermann (soprano) & Hanna Ludwig (mezzo) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Christoph von Dohnányi

Emil Gilels (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri

Stefania Woytowicz (soprano) & Anny Delorie (contralto) Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, William Steinberg

Rita Cullis, Angela Maria Blasi, Ofelia Sala (soprano), Reinhild Runkel, Catherine Keen (mezzo-soprano), Glenn Winslade (tenor), John Bröcheler (baritone) & Kurt Rydl (Bass) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, National Choir of the Ukraine ‘Dumka’, Ukrainian Radio Choir & Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir, Hartmut Haenchen

Ingrid Jacoby (piano) Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk

Münchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe

Bbc Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Shura Cherkassky (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Norman Del Mar

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Antoine de Bavier

Ingrid Jacoby (piano) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Maria Callas (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Mario Zanasi (Giorgio Germont), Marie Collier (Flora), Forbes Robinson (Barone Douphol), Ronald Lewis (Marchese d'Obigny), Leah Roberts (Annina), Dermot Troy (Gastone), David Kelly (Dottore Grenvil) Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus, Nicola Rescigno

Leon Fleisher (piano) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, André Cluytens, Georg Ludwig Jochum

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Heather Harper (soprano), Julia Hamari (alto), Sven Olof Eliasson (tenor), Peter Meven (bass), Wolfgang Marschner (violin) Kölner Rundfunkchor & Sinfonie-Orchester, William Steinberg

Fernando Corena (Sir John Falstaff), Juan Oncina, Kevin Miller (Fenton), Walter Monachesi (Ford), Dermot Troy (Dr. Caius), Daniel McCosham (Bardolpho), Marco Stefanoni (Pistola), Anna Maria Rovere (Alice Ford), Eugenia Ratti (Nanetta), Fernanda Cadoni (Meg Page) & Oralia Dominguez (Mistress Quickly) Glyndebourne Opera Chorus & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Arthur Rubinstein (piano) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Christoph von Dohnányi

Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Bruno Walter

Shura Cherkassky (piano) Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Zdenek Macal

Julius Katchen (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe

with Gerald English (tenor) & Hermann Baumann (horn) Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester, Sir John Barbirolli

SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Sir John Barbirolli

Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, 7 cellos from the London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini

Bela Dekany (violin), Teresa Cahill (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass) BBC Symphony Orchestra, with BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Singers, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) BBCSO, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & BBCSO, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet

Rolando Panerai (Figaro), Teresa Berganza (Rosina), Luigi Alva (Count Almaviva), Fernando Corena (Dr Bartolo), Ivo Vinco (Don Basilio), Ronald Lewis (Fiorello), Josephine Veasey (Berta) & Robert Bowman (Un Ufficiale) The Covent Garden Chorus & The Covent Garden Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Georges Cziffra (piano) Orchestre National de l’ORTF, André Cluytens, Georges Tzipine

George Thalben-Ball (organ) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Borodin Quartet, Victoria de los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Walter Gieseking

Dame Janet Baker (soloist), Rae Woodland (soloist), Deryck Cooke (soloist), Leopold Stokowski (soloist), Gloria Lane (soloist), Sophia van Sante (soloist), London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmith's Choral Union, Harrow Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir

Rudolf Barshai (viola), Vladimir Shraibman (piano), Semyon Stuchevsky (piano), Alexander Korneev (flute), Olga Erdeli (harp), Rudolf Barshai (viola/direction), Tatyana Nikolayeva (piano), Leonid Kogan (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Emil Gilels (piano), Rostislav Dubinsky (violin), Nina Barshai (violin), Valentin Berlinsky (cello), Dmitri Shostakovich (piano), Julian Sitkovetsky (violin), Anton Sharoev (violin), Yakov Slobodkin (cello), Elizaveta Gilels (violin), Heinrich Talalyan (viola), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Alla Vasilieva (cello), Andrei Abramenkova, Boris Kun'ev & Leonid Polees (violins), Evgeny Smirnov (violin), Naum Zaidel (flute), David Oistrakh (violin), Zara Dolukhanova (soprano), Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Elena Prokina (soprano) Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Great Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Germany, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ensemble Resonanz der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie, National Symphony Orchestra Taipei, Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, NSO String Ensemble, Nikolai Anosov

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Rafał Bartmiński (tenor), Jan Krzysztof Broja (piano) Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch

Dame Janet Baker (The Angel), John Shirley Quirk (The Priest & The Angel of the agony) & Peter Pears (Gerontius) London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Sir Adrian Boult

Igor Oistrakh (violin) & David Oistrakh (violin), Igor Oistrakh (violin) & David Oistrakh (viola), David Oistrakh (violin) English Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Colin Davis, Yehudi Menuhin, Kirill Kondrashin

Ingrid Jacoby (piano) Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk

Joyce Barker (Magna Peccatrix), Beryl Hatt (Mater Gloriosa), Agnes Giebel (Una Poenitentium), Kerstin Meyer (Mulier Samaritana), Helen Watts (Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Neate (Doctor Marianus), Alfred Orda (Pater Ecstaticus), Arnold van Mill (Pater Profundus), Emil Gilels (piano), Zinka Milanov (soprano), Kerstin Thorborg (contralto), Koloman von Pataky (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Leonid Kogan (violin), Dennis Brain (horn), Wilfrid Parry (piano), Cyril Preedy (piano), Max Salpeter (violin), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano), Martin Isepp (piano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Clifford Curzon (piano), David Oistrakh (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Annie Fischer (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Hampstead Choral Society, Emanuel School Boys' Choir, Orptington Junior Singers, Goldsmith's Choral Union, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble, English String Quartet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein, Evgeny Mravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Kyrill Kondrashin, Carlo Maria Giulini, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Benjamin Britten, Igor Markevitch, Norman del Mar, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham

Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

David Oistrakh (violin), Ida Haendel (violin), Gioconda De Vito (violin), Alfredo Campoli (violin), André Navarra (cello), Zara Nelsova )cello), Monique de la Bruchollerie (piano), Dennis Brain (horn) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Basil Cameron, Fernando Previtali, Alfred Wallenstein, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jean Martinon, Sir Eugene Goossens, Walter Goehr, Paul Sacher, Sir Adrian Boult