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Disc 2
March 5, 2012 50 songs, 2 hours 21 minutes ℗ 1959 the copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd, Digital remastering 2000 by EMI Records Ltd.
- Birgit Nilsson, Karl Böhm, Jon Vickers, Ruth Hesse, Walter Berry, New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestre National de France
- 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
- Berlin Philharmonic, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Christian Gerhaher, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dorothea Röschmann, Rundfunkchor, Berlin, Jochen Schmeckenbecher & Kurt Streit
- Marek Janowski, Peter Schreier, Siegmund Nimsgern, Staatskapelle Dresden, René Kollo, Theo Adam, Matti Salminen, Ortrun Wenkel, Norma Sharp & Jeannine Altmeyer
- Thomas Schippers, Giuseppe Taddei, Birgit Nilsson, Giovanni Foiani, Bruno Prevedi, Piero de Palma, Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Wolfgang Schone, Helen Watts, Adalbert Kraus, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling, Stuttgart Bach Collegium, Arleen Auger, Lutz-Michael Harder, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Aldo Baldin & Philippe Huttenlocher
- Gundula Janowitz, Karl Böhm, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera