Legends

Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger (sopranos), Yvonne Minton (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Rene Kollo (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martti Talvela (bass) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Sir Georg Solti

Janet Baker (Dido), Raimund Herincx (Aeneas), Patricia Clark (Belinda), Monica Sinclair (Sorceress) English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Singers, Anthony Lewis

London Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ataúlfo Argenta

Vladimir Ashkenazy Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin, Anatole Fistoulari

Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

Walter Berry (Bluebeard), Christa Ludwig (Judith) London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Régine Crespin (soprano), John Wustman (piano) Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet

Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano)

Radu Lupu (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Solti

London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag

Radu Lupu (piano)

Vienna Octet

Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Rudolf Kempe

Della Casa, Danco, Siepi Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips

Itzhak Perlman (violin), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Alan Loveday (violin), Neil Black, Celia Nicklin (oboes), Martin Gatt (bassoon), William Bennett (piccolo) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Josef Suk & Julius Katchen

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Erich Kleiber

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

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

Clifford Curzon (piano), Sir Clifford Curzon (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell, Sir Adrian Boult

Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Lisa della Casa (Countess Almaviva), Alfred Poell (Count Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino) Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber

Wiener Philharmoniker, Aram Khachaturian

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), with Julius Patzak (tenor) Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Sylvia Stahlman (soprano), Helen watts (contralto), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone), Elizabeth Vaughan (soprano), Janet Baker (contralto) London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Leonard Bernstein (piano and conductor) Vienna Philharmonic

Lucretia West (contralto), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Akademie-Chor, Hans Knappertsbusch

Ruggiero Ricci (violin) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Leontyne Price (soprano), Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellscaft der Musikfreunde, Wien, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale, Fritz Reiner, Zubin Mehta

James King (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Rudolf Kempe, Charles Mackerras

Lisa della Casa (soprano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm/Rudolk Moralt/Heinrich Hollreiser

Clifford Curzon (piano) English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Istvan Kertesz

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

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Christa Ludwig (contralto) Vienna Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Julius Katchen (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Ataúlfo Argenta, Piero Gamba

Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato, Cornell MacNeil Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert van Karajan

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano)

Rohangiz Yachmi (contralto) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Münchinger

Clifford Curzon (piano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Hans Knappertsbusch

Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, Ansermet

Sir Georg Solti

Erzsébet Komlóssy - mezzo-soprano / Pilar Lorengar - soprano / Robert Ilosfalvy - Tenor / Tom Krause - baritone, Istvan Kertesz - conductor / Lajos Kozma - tenor Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Wiener Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik

Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Clifford Curzon (piano)

Jose Carreras

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelík

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