Music & Arts

Otto Edelman (Hans Sachs), Hans Hopf (Walther), Lisa Della Casa (Eva), Heinrich Pflanzl (Beckmesser), Kurt Böehme (Pogner), Gerhard Unger (David), Ira Malaniuk (Magdalena), Werner Faulhaber (Kothner), Gustav Neidlinger (Nachtwächter)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch

Adrian Aeschbacher (piano), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Enrico Mainardi (cello), Yehudi Menuhin (violin)

Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Maria Neuss (violin), Walter Gieseking (piano), Herman Krebbers (violin), Guila Bustabo (violin), Gaspar Cassado (cello)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, William Mengelberg

Jaro Prohaska (Hans Sachs), Maria Müller (Eva), Camilla Kallab (Magdalena), Max Lorenz (Walther), Josef Greindl (Pogner), Eugen Fuchs (Beckmesser), Fritz Krenn (Kothner), Erich Zimmermann (David), Erich Pina (Nachtwächter)

Bayreuth Festival Opera, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Mariano Stabile (Falstaff), Paolo Silveri (Ford), Renata Tebaldi (Alice), Anna Maria Canali (Meg), Cloe Elmo (Mistress Quickly), Cesare Valletti (Fenton), Rosanna Carteri (Nannetta), Giuseppe Nessi (Bardolfo), Italo Tajo (Pistola), Mariano Caruso (Dr Cajus), Tito Gobbi (Ford), Franca Somigli (Alice),...

Maria Stader, Helene Bouvier, Libero de Luca, Josef Greindl, Robert Casadesus (piano), Annie Jodry (violin), G. Moysan (sop)

French National Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

Maud Cunitz (Sieglinde), Bernd Aldenhoff (Siegmund), Bernd Aldenhoff (Siegfried), Otto von Rohr (Fafner)

Bavarian State Orchestra, Munich, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

Claudio Arrau (piano)

Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

Szymon Goldberg (violin), with Haakon Stotijn (oboe), with Artur Balsam (piano), with Zara Nelsova (cello), with Pablo Casals (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano), with Victor Babin (piano), Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), with Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano), with Brooks...

W. Kapell (piano), Solomon, Lili Kraus, Cherkassky, Naoum & Boris Blinder

The Standard Symphony Orchestra (San Francisco), Pierre Monteux