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Dennis Brain (horn), Colin Horsley (piano), Manoug Parikian (violin), Neill Sanders (horn), Dennis Brain Ensemble, Gerald Moore (piano), Denis Matthews (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble, Morley College Symphony Orchestra, London Baroque Ensemble, Herbert von Karajan, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Jack Westrup, Paul Hindemith, Norman del Mar, Paul Kletzki, Karl Haas

Fritz Kreisler (violin), Thomas Petre (violins), William Primrose (viola), Laurie Kennedy (cello), with Franz Rupp (piano), with Michael Raucheisen (piano), with Arpád Sándor (piano) Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Landon Ronald, Leo Blech, Malcolm Sargent, John Barbirolli, Eugene Goossens

Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Hjödis Schymberg (Mimi), Victoria de los Angeles (Nedda), Leonard Warren (Tonio), Paul Franke (Beppe), Robert Merrill (Silvio), Victoria de los Angeles (Mimi), Lucine Amara (Musetta), Robert Merrill (Marcello), John Reardon (Schaunard), Giorgio Tozzi (Colline), Victoria de los Angeles (Butterfly), Miriam Pirazzini (Suzuki), Mario Sereni (Sharpless), Piero de Palma (Goro)

Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) & Rosanna Carteri Milan Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Tonino

Andres Segovia (guitar) New London Orchestra, Alec Sherman

Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Bernabé Martí (Raoul), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Dama), Thomas Allen (Medico), Bernabé Martí (Riccardo), Placido Domingo (Carlo), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Emilia), Placido Domingo (Des Grieux), José Carreras (Turiddu), Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), Júlia Hamari (Lola), Bernabé Martí (Chenier), Alexis Weissenberg (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra e Coro della RAI, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Carlo Maria Giulini, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Lamberto Gardelli, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Muti, Sir Charles Mackerras, James Levine, Anton Guadagno, Carlo Maria Giulini, Julius Rudel, Bruno Bartoletti, Alain Lombard

Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli (violin)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

Dame Janet Baker, Daniel Barenboim (piano), Robert Spencer (lute), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Gerald Moore (piano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir (men's voices), London Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Bath Festival Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John Barbirolli, Andre Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Charles Mackerras, Raymond Leppard, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner

Richard Tauber (tenor)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Set Svanholm (Siegfried), Ludwig Suthaus (Tristan), Blanche Thebom (Brangane)

Artur Rubinstein (piano)

Tito Gobbi (baritone), Maria Callas (Gilda), Giuseppe di Stefano (Il Duca), Victoria de los Angeles (Amelia), Maria Callas (Aida), Mario Filippeschi (Carlo), Plinio Clabassi (Filippo), Maria Callas (Tosca), Luigi Alva (Cavaradossi), Victoria de los Angeles (Lauretta), Carlo del Monte (Rinuccio)

Jascha Heifetz (violin), with Arpád Sándor (piano), with Emanuel Bay (piano), with Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano), with Artur Rubinstein (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Elizabeth Schumann (soprano)

Léon Goossens (oboe), Yehudi Menuhin (viola), John Ogdon (piano), Sir Ralph Richardson (Speaker), Ronald Dowd (Oedipus), Raimund Herincx (Creon), Harold Blackburn (Tiresias), Patricia Johnson (Jocasta), Raimund Herincx (Messenger) & Alberto Remedios (Shepherd) Sinfonia of London, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sadler’s Wells Opera Chorus (men’s voices) & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

Pierre Fournier (cello)

Lucia Popp (soprano)

Alfred Cortot (piano), with Jacques Thibaud & Pablo Casals, with Jacques Thibaud

Beniamino Gigli (tenor)

Victoria de los Ángeles (soprano), Jussi Björling (Rodolfo), Robert Merrill (Marcello), Carlo del Monte (Alfredo), Jussi Björling (Pinkerton), Mario Sereni (Sharpless), Nicolai Gedda (Faust), Boris Christoff (Mephistopheles), Nicolai Gedda (Don Jose), Denise Monteil (Micaela), Marcelle Croisier (Frasquita), Monique Linval (Mercédès), Gonzalo Soriano (piano), Gerald Moore (piano), Eduard Drolc (violin), Irmgard Poppen (cello), Dietrich-Fischer Dieskau (baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone), Miguel Zanetti (piano), Jean-Claude Gérard (flute), Oscar Ghiglia (guitar), Victoria de los Angeles (guitar), Alicia de Larrocha (piano) Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Philharmonia Orchestra, RCA Victor Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro dell Opera di Roma, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Coro e Orchestra del Theatro dell’Opera di Roma, Chœurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Chœurs et Orchestre National da la Radiodiffusion Française, Profesores de la Orquesta Nacional de España, Sinfonia of London, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Philharmonia Orchestra with Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Morelli, Stanford Robinson, Walter Susskind, Sir Thomas Beecham, Gabriele Santini, Renato Cellini, Tullio Serafin, Vittorio Gui, Pierre Monteux, André Cluytens, Georges Prêtre, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat, Carlo Maria Giulini

Artur Schnabel (piano), with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, with Claude Hobday & members of the Pro Arte Quartet, with Members of the Pro Arte Quartet, Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent

Elly Ameling (soprano)

Walter Gieseking (piano), with Philharmonia Wind Quartet: Sidney Sutcliffe, Bernard Walton, Dennis Brain, Cecil James Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchester der Hessischen Rundfunks, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Schröder

Emil Gilels (piano) Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Philharmonia Orchestra, George Szell, André Vandernoot, André Cluytens, Leopold Ludwig

Dennis Brain (horn) Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra Stabile Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Gerhard Unger (David), Elisabeth Grummer (Eva), Marga Hoffgen (Magdalene), Rudolf Schock (Walther), Ferdinand Frantz (Sachs), Sylvia Geszty (Zerbinetta), Teresa Zylis-Gara (Komponist), Theo Adam (Musiklehr) Rudolf Kempe

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Anny Felbermayer (Zdenka), Murray Dickie (Elemer), Josef Metternich (Mandryka), Harald Pröglhöf (Dominik), Walter Berry (Lamoral), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie), Edith Peinemann (violin), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Willy Ferenz (bass), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Irmgard Seefried (Octavian), Irmgard Seefried (Hansel, Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Phlharmoniker, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Lovro von Matačić, Herbert von Karajan, George Szell, Otto Ackermann, Josef Krips, Karl Böhm, Walter Susskind, Carlo Maria Giulini

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Ivor McMahon (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Lamar Crowson (piano), Peter Graeme (oboe) Neil Sanders (horn), William Waterhouse (bassoon), James Buck (horn), Adrian Beers (double bass), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Iona Brown (violin), Kenneth Essex (viola), Keith Harvey (cello), Sarah Barrington (oboe), · Keith Puddy (clarinet), Edgar Williams (bassoon) Richard Adeney (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe & cor anglais), Richard Adeney (flute/piccolo), Stephen Trier (bass-clarinet) Osian Ellis (harp) William Bennett (flute), Mary Thomas (soprano), Rosemary Phillips (contralto), Philip Jones (trumpet), Arthur Wilson (trombone), Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute), Anthony Jennings (bass-clarinet), David Mason (trumpet), Alfred Flaszinski (trombone), Tristan Fry (percussion), Jack Lees (percussion), Manoug Parikian (violin), Hilary Wilson (harp), James Blades (percussion), Stephen Whittaker (percussion), Eli Goren (violin), · Terence Weil (cello) Melos Ensemble, Sir Edward Downes, John Carewe

Claudio Arrau (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Alceo Galliera, Carlo Maria Giulini

Boris Christoff (bass)

Jan Dahmen (violin), Max Zimolong (horn), Margarete Teschemacher (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Torsten Ralf (tenor), Josef Herrmann (baritone), Chor der Staatsoper Dresden (chorus), Max Strub (violin), Walter Gieseking (piano), Lubka Kolessa (piano), Edwin Fischer (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Torsten Ralf (Otello), Josef Herrmann (Iago), Torsten Ralf (Johnson), Christel Goltz (soprano), Josef Herrmann (Hans Sachs), Esther Rethy (Sophie), Elisabeth Höngen (Octavian), Margarete Teschemacher (Daphne), Torsten Ralf (Apollo), Hans Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs), Sven Nilsson (Veit Pogner), Eugen Fuchs (Sixtus Beckmesser), Arno Schellenberg (Fritz Kothner), Torsten Ralf (Walther von Stolzing), Martin Kremer (David), Margarete Teschenmacher (Eva), Helene Jung (Magdalena), Rudolf Dittrich (Kunz Vogelgesang), Robert Büssel (Konrad Nachtigall), Klaus Hermanns (Ulrich Eisslinger), Rudolf Schmalnauer (Balthasar Zorn), Hanns Lange (Augustin Moser), Ludwig Eybisch (Hermann Ortel), Hermann Greiner (Hans Schwarz), Serge Smirnoff (Hans Foltz), Chor der Dresdener Staatsoper (chorus), Elisabeth Schwartzkopf (Liù), Set Svanholm (Siegmund), Kirsten Flagstad (Brunnhilde), Set Svanholm (Tristan), Margueritte Teschemacher (Isolde) Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Hermann Prey (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Martin Mälzer (piano), Karl Engel (piano), Leonard Hokanson (piano), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Siegfried Arnold (cello), Heinz Morawietz (double bass), Willy Gerlach (oboe), Hannes Kästner (organ), Gunther Weissenborn (piano), Erika Köth (Zerlina), Richard Holm (Almaviva), Erika Köth (Rosina), Ursula Schirrmacher (Frasquita), Ursula Gust (Mercedes), Christa Ludwig (Carmen), Anneliese Rothenberger (Nedda), Anneliese Rothenberger (Arabella), Sylvia Geszty (Zerbinetta), Anneliese Rothenberger (Carlotta), Anneliese Rothenberger (Fiametta), Heinz Hoppe (Pietro), Hans Günther Grimm (Lambertuccio) Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Symphoniker, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Berliner Mozartchor, Symphonie-Orchester Graunk, Staatskapelle Dresden, Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Chor des Theaters am Gärtnerplatz, München, ymphonie-Orchester Graunke, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor, Kurt Thomas, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggerberg, Horst Stein, Hans Zanotelli, Berislav Klobucar, Wilhelm Schüchter, Robert Heger, Kurt Graunke, Rudolf Kempe, Meinhard von Zallinger, Carl Michalski, Franz Allers

Christian Ferras (violin)

Edwin Fischer (piano) Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker

Joseph Keilberth

Sviatoslav Richter (piano), with Oleg Kagaan (violin), with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), with David Oistrakh (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Borodin Quartet with Georg Hörtnagel, Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Bayerische Staatsorchester München, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, London Symphony Orchestra, Instrumental Ensemble of the Moscow Conservatoire, Riccardo Muti, Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Carlos Kleiber, Lovro von Matacic, Youri Nicolaievsky