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Sir Georg Solti, Robert Tear (tenor), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Victor Braun (baritone), Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Sir Georg Solti, Geraint Evans (bass baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Sena Jurinac (soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), Cesare Siepi (bass)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera, Alberto Remedios (tenor), Margaret Curphey (soprano), Sarah Walker (soprano), Greg Dempsey (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), Norman Bailey (bass baritone), Anthony Roden (baritone), Neil Howlett (baritone), Patrick Wheatley (singer)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Martina Arroyo (soprano), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo soprano), Carlo Cossutta (tenor), Ladislaus Konya (baritone)

Leopold Stokowski, London Symphony Orchestra, Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), James McCracken (tenor), Nell Rankin (soprano)

The English Opera Group Orchestra, Dame Janet Baker (singer), Heather Harper (singer), John Shirley-Quirk (singer)

Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans Hotter (singer), Christa Ludwig (singer)

Gregor Piatigorsky, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paul Sacher, Joan Cross, Peter Pears, The English Opera Group Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Ernest Ansermet, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ninon Vallin, Hugues Cuénod, Phillippe Soguel, Lise Bratschi, Sylvane Pagani, Ernest Mestrallet, Bernard Berthet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Erich Kleiber & Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus, Erich Kleiber, Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus, Jess Walters (baritone)

The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Joan Cross (soloist), Peter Pears (soloist), The Royal Opera Chorus, Sir John Pritchard

Royal Opera Chorus, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Rafael Kubelik

Jon Vickers, The Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Raymond Leppard

Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Sir Hugh Casson (narrator), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir William Walton & Royal Opera House Chorus, Sir Malcolm Sargent (narrator), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir William Walton, Frederick Dalberg (bass), Geraint Evans (baritone), Monica Sinclair (mezzo soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Magda Laszlo (soprano), Douglas Robinson (choir master), Forbes Robinson (bass), Otakar Kraus (baritone), Richard Lewis (tenor), Gordon Farrall (bass), Royal Opera House Chorus

Richard Lewis, Frederick Stone

BBC Opera Orchestra, Gré Brouwenstijn (soloist), Raymond Nilsson (soloist), John Lanigan (soloist), The BBC Opera Chorus, Rafael Kubelik

Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus, Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus & Bryan Balkwill, Bryan Balkwill

Una Hale, April Cantelo, Anna Pollak, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Chorus and Orchestra of The English Opera Group & Charles Mackerras, Chorus and Orchestra of The English Opera Group, Sir Charles Mackerras

Richard Lewis, Geoffrey Parsons

Sir Georg Solti, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Lisa della Casa (soprano), Josephine Veasey (mezzo soprano), Joan Carlyle (soprano), Michael Langdon (bass)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Raimund Herincx & Sadler's Wells Orchestra and Chorus, Donald McIntyre (singer), Elizabeth Harwood (singer), Ava June (singer), Raimund Herincx (singer), Sadler's Wells Orchestra and Chorus, Sadler's Wells Orchestra (classical artist), Sadler's Wells Orchestra and Chorus & Ava June, Rita Hunter (singer), Noel Mangin (singer), Anne Pashley (singer), John Fryatt (singer), Eric Stannard (singer), Sheila Amit (singer), Stanley Bevan (singer)

Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Coro di Milano della Rai

Amadeus Quartet, Benjamin Britten

The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Howell Glynne (soloist), Mattiwilda Dobbs (soloist), The Royal Opera Chorus, Igor Markevitch

Gré Brouwenstijn, London Mozart Players, Peter Pears, Bruce Boyce, Alexander Young, Owen Brannigan, Lloyd Strauss-Smith, Jill Balcon, Harry Blech

Robert Thomas, Sheila Rex, Owen Brannigan, Rowland Jones, Helen Hillier, Edith Coates, John Kentish, Amy Shuard, Marion Studholme, Harold Blackburn, Sadler's Wells Chorus, Marcus Dodds, Sadler's Wells Orchestra, Walter Price, Rafael Kubelik

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Lewis (tenor), Kerstin Meyer (alto), Rudolf Schwarz

Stanford Robinson, Max Worthley, Victoria Sladen, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen, Philharmonia Orchestra