Disc 1
Disc 2
January 1, 1953 32 songs, 1 hour 48 minutes ℗ 1953 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. Remastered (p) 1999 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
- Michael Tilson Thomas, Edita Gruberová, Karita Mattila, Lucia Popp & London Symphony Orchestra
- Elly Ameling, Dame Janet Baker, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore
- Birgit Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ingrid Bjoner, James King, Bayerische Staatsopernchor, Bavarian State Orchestra & Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna Philharmonic, Horst Stein, Franco Corelli, Gundula Janowitz, Shirley Verrett & Eberhard Wächter
- Silvio Varviso, Karl Ridderbusch, Jean Cox, Hannelore Bode, Hans Sotin, Anna Reynolds, Klaus Hirte, Bayreuth Festival Choir & Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
- Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsopernchor, Edith Mathis, Friedrich Lenz, Fritz Wunderlich, Gisela Litz, Robert Heger & Ruth-Margret Pütz