Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), David Oistrakh (violin), Ralph Downes, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Chor de Bayerischen Rundfunks & Bamberger Symphoniker, Robin Ticciati

Bernard Haitink

Christa Ludwig Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner

Kathleen Ferrier Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Hallé Orchestra, Erik Tuxen, John Barbirolli

Jessye Norman (contralto), Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Janet Baker London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Stephanie Blythe A Sei Voci & Ensemble Orchestral De Paris, John Nelson

Kiri Te Kanawa, Andras Schiff, Helen Watts Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra & King's College Cambridge Choir, Georg Solti and Claudio Abbado

Zino Francescatti (violin), Pierre Fournier (cello), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), George London (bass-baritone), Mildred Miller (contralto) Columbia Syphony Orchestra, Occidental College Concert Choir, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter

Marjana Lipovsek (contralto) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Chorus, Ernst Senff Chor, Claudio Abbado

Claudio Arrau (piano), Marian Anderson (contralto) New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Male Chorus of the Schola Cantorum, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Busch

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andreas Groethuysen (piano), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Yaara Tal (piano), Yuval Weinberg (chorus master)

Anne Sofie von Otter (alto) Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine

Irmgard Seefried (soprano), George London (bass), Westminster Choir, Mildred Miller (mezzo-soprano), Occidental College Concert Choir New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter

Ilona Steingruber, Alfred Poell, Katheleen Ferrier Wiener Symphoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Akademie Kammerchor, Clemens Krauss

Marjana Lipovšek (contralto) Berliner Philharmoniker, Ernst-Senff-Chor, Claudio Abbado

Lioba Braun (alto), Carsten Süß (tenor) Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Helmuth Rilling

Elena Obraztsova Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic Society, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Male Section of Alexander Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir, Algis Žiūraitis, Algis Zhiuraitis

Martha Lipton (mezzo-soprano) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic, Guido Cantelli

Eva Maria Rogner (soprano), Ingmarth Barth (contralto) Südwestfunk SinfonieOrchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonia Orchestra, Südwestfunk SinfonieOrchester, Hans Rosbaud

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

Franz Crass (baritone), Wilma Lipp (soprano), Aafje Heynis (contralto), Wiener Singverein, Wiener Symphoniker, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano) Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, New Philharmonia, Sir Adrian Boult, Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Charles Mackerras, Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, André Previn, Sir Philip Ledger

Christa Ludwig (contralto, vocals), Münchner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum

Yvonne Naef (alto) Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Vonk

Robin Brockway-Nichols (piano), Texas All-State Tenor-Bass Choir, Jed Ragsdale, Gary Packwood

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer

Lucia Valentini Terrani (alto) Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino, Orchestra & Coro Sinfonica RAI di Milano, Mino Bordignon, Peter Maag

Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano) San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Herbert Downes (viola), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Amaryllis Fleming (cello), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Unknown Orchestra, Unknown Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Horst Stein, Sir Adrian Boult, André Vandernoot, Otto Klemperer, Sir Charles Mackerras

Kathleen Ferrier, Phyllis Spurr & John Newmark Wiener Philharmoniker & London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Bruno Walter & Clemens Krauss

Anna Larsson (contralto) Danish National Choir/DR, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht

Marian Andreson, Franz Rupp (piano) The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Grace Hoffman (alto), Claudio Arrau (piano) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik

Jard Van Nes (alto) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

Marian Anderson (contralto), Joseph Fuchs (violin), Kosti Vehanen (piano), Franz Rupp (piano), Hans Leschke (chorus master), William Primrose (viola), Jan Peerce (tenor) Robert Shaw, Charles O'Connell, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Dimitri Mitropoulos

Mildred Miller (mezzo-soprano), Occidental College Concert Choir, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Irwin Gage (piano), Christa Ludwig (contralto), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Erik Werba (piano), London Symphony Chorus (chorus), Simon Joly (chorus master), Kurt Ollmann (baritone), John Treleavan (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), James Levine (piano), Christa Ludwig (soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano) The London Opera Chorus, Wiener Singverein, Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Richter, Sir Georg Solti, Richard Bonynge, Claudio Abbado

Deon Van der Walt (Tenor), Friedemann Winklhofer (Organ), Lioba Braun (Alto), Pamela Coburn (Soprano) Österreichisch-Ungarische Philharmonie, Windsbacher Knabenchor, Karl-Friedrich Beringer

Kathleen Ferrier, Millicent Silver BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Malcolm Sergent, John Barbiolli, Clemens Krauss, Malcolm Sargent, John Barbirolli

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Christa Ludwig (alto) Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm

Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Wolfgang Brendel (baritone) Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli

Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), Alex Potter (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Wendy Greenhill (narrator), Richard Rittelmann (bass), Agnieszka Slawinska (soprano), Bertrand Grunenwald (bass), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (mezzo-soprano), Philippe Sly (bass), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Stephanie Blythe (contralto), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Timothy Ridout (viola), David Guerrier (french horn, trumpet), Soeur Marie Keyrouz (mezzo-soprano), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), François Leleux (oboe), Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Jean-Luc Viala (tenor), Susan Graham (soprano), Christine Brandes (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Guillaume Paoletti (cello), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Gregory Kunde (tenor), A Sei Voci (vocal ensemble), Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (chamber ensemble), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, The English Concert, Choir of The English Concert, Coro Gulbenkian, Le Jeune Chœur de Paris, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Chœur de l'Opéra national du Rhin, Chœur philharmonique de Strasbourg, Ensemble de la Paix, Chœur de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Philharmonia Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Bach Choir, Orchestre National de France, Chœur d'enfants de l'Union européenne, Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Maîtrise d'Antony, Orchestre de Paris, John Nelson

Maura Moreira, Christa Lehnert, Edith Mathis (soprano), Margarethe Witte-Waldbauer, Robert Titze, Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra, Innsbruck Symphony Chorus, Robert Wagner

Marian Anderson (contralto), Franz Rupp (leadvocalist), San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, RCA Victor Sinfonietta, RCA Victor Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Robert Shaw, Charles O'Connell

Oralia Dominguez (contralto) & Set Svanholm (tenor) Männerchor des Wiener Singvereins & Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Paul Klecki

Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, Marzena Diakun

Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Robert Kulek, Annelien Van Wauwe, Denis Kozhukhin (piano), Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Yefim Bronfman (piano), Yulia Deyneka (viola), Julia Fischer (violin), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Storioni Trio (chamber ensemble), WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players, Yvonn Naef, Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Alexandre Bloch, Sir Simon Rattle, Yakov Kreizberg, Marc Albrecht, Marek Janowski, Herbert Blomstedt, Hans Vonk

Anne Queffélec (piano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Michael Flanders (narrator), Truls Mørk (cello), Juhani Lagerspetz (piano), Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Ensemble vocal Jean Sourisse (vocal ensemble), Alexander Kniazev (cello), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Nathan Milstein (violin), Georges Pludermacher (piano), Han de Vries (oboe), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Stephen Hough (piano), Ronan O'Hora (piano), Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Michel Legrand (piano), Timothy Byram-Wigfield (soprano), Robert Chilcott (tenor), Jonathan Robarts (bass), Francis Grier (organ), Michael Cockerham (contralto), Monique Haas (piano), Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Vivian Hornik Weilerstein (piano), Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Giovanni Scaramuzzino (mandolin), Sonia Maurer (mandolin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (piano), Elena Duran (flute), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), James Bowman (countertenor), Paolo Grazzi (oboe), Manuel Barrueco (guitar), Sergei Babayan (piano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin), Jacques Rouvier (piano), Piers Lane (piano), Tasmin Little (violin), Maurice André (trumpet), Jane Parker-Smith (organ), Dagmar Schellenberger (soprano), Semion Skigin (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Alison Balsom (trumpet), Kenny Broberg (piano), Maria Ioudenitch (violin), Theresa Pilsl (soprano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Michel Dalberto (piano), Mikhail Rudy (piano), Dalal (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), David Bergmüller (lute), David Orlowsky (clarinet), Thomas Dunford (archlute), Steven Isserlis (cello), Simon Trpčeski (piano), Rockwell Blake (tenor), Eva Urbanová (soprano), Georges Cziffra (piano), Alessio Bax (piano), Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Esko Laine (double bass), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Aki Saulière (violin), Béatrice Muthelet (viola), Franck Braley (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Jacques Fevrier (piano), Sharon Isbin (guitar), Samson François (piano), Michel Portal (clarinet), André Luy (organ), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (vocal ensemble), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Boris Christoff (bass), Alexandre Labinsky (piano), Kun-Woo Paik (piano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Aribert Reimann (piano), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), David Goode (organ), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Michael Chance (tenor), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), François-René Duchâble (piano), Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Christian Zacharias (piano), Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Konrad Hünteler (flute), Martin Roscoe (piano), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Bernard Dickerson (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass), Gloria Jennings (contralto), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Carol Case (baritone), John Noble (baritone), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Marie Hayward (soprano), Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Richard Angas (bass), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Shirley Minty (mezzo-soprano), Susan Longfield (soprano), Wynford Evans (tenor), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer, Alma Musica Amsterdam, Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Westminster Abbey Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmonisches Bläserensemble, Europa Galante, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Il Giardino Armonico, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir of New College Oxford, Guy Barker Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Studio 2 Concert Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Orchestra, The Hilliard Ensemble, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestra of the Boston Early Music Festival, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Süddeutscher Madrigalchor, Consortium Classicum, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Opéra National de Lyon, Concentus musicus Wien, Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Fretwork, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Les Violons du Roy, Hallé Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Richard Tognetti, Sir Neville Marriner, Jean Sourisse, Constantine Orbelian, Jeffrey Tate, Sabine Meyer, Philip Ledger, Daniel Barenboim, Sir David Willcocks, Fabio Biondi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Kent Nagano, Eric Fenby, Richard Hickox, Giovanni Antonini, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Tõnu Kaljuste, Edward Higginbottom, Guy Barker, Nicholas Collon, André Previn, Reginald Kilbey, Carlo Maria Giulini, Paul Hillier, Norman Del Mar, Andrew Parrott, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Marko Letonja, Patrick Fournillier, Ondrej Lenárd, Terry Edwards, Sir Adrian Boult, Jean Martinon, Libor Pešek, Daniel Harding, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Paavo Järvi, Lawrence Foster, Michel Corboz, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Stephen Cleobury, Ettore Gracis, Sir Andrew Davis, Yuri Temirkanov, Hans Vonk, John Nelson, Bernard Labadie, Bryden Thomson, Ton Koopman, André Cluytens, Riccardo Muti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Simon Rattle

Melanie Sonnenberg (mezzo-soprano) Turtle Creek Chorale, Timothy Seelig

William Primrose (viola), William Kapell (piano), Gerald Moore (piano), Marian Anderson (contralto), Franz Rupp (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, University of Pennsylvania Men's Glee Club, Eugene Ormandy

Anna Larsson (alto), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Ernst Senff Chor, Philharmonischer Chor Dresden, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Michel Plasson

Annelies Burmeister (alto), Helmut Pfeuffer (piano) Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Chorus (male section), Heinz Bongartz

Else Brems (mezzo-soprano) Royal Orchestra, The, Royal Opera Chorus, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Choir, Koppel Quartet, Egisto Tango, Johan Hye-Knudsen, Launy Grondahl, Mogens Woldike, Rafael Kubelik, Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen, Paul Klecki