Disc 1
Disc 2
January 1, 1954 54 songs, 1 hour 56 minutes ℗ Originally released in 1954 - All rights reserved BMG Entertainment
- Geraint Evans, Hans Sotin, Otto Klemperer, Yvonne Minton, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Dame Margaret Price & Luigi Alva
- Piero Cappuccilli, Ruggero Raimondi, Herbert von Karajan, Elena Obraztsova, Berlin Philharmonic, Leontyne Price & Franco Bonisolli
- Lisa Della Casa, Cesare Siepi, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Elisabeth Grummer, Fernando Corena, Gottlob Frick, Léopold Simoneau, Rita Streich, Walter Berry, Vienna Philharmonic & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
- Lucia Popp, Walter Berry, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, Munich Philharmonic & Ferdinand Leitner
- Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Anna Di Stasio, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Florindo Andreolli, James McCracken, Philharmonia Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis & Sir John Barbirolli
- Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Leonie Rysanek, Helmut Melchert, Gertie Charlent, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marlies Siemeling, Richard Kraus, Cologne Radio Chorus, Marianne Schroeder, Käthe Möller-Siepermann, Heiner Horn, Res Fischer, Helene Petrich, Käthe Retzmann, Hasso Eschert, Arno Reinhardt, Ilsa Ihme-Sabisch & Trude Roesler