March 1, 2004 20 songs, 1 hour 18 minutes ℗ This compilation 2004 by EMI Records Ltd.
- Marilyn Horne, Dimiter Petkov, Georges Prêtre, Nicolai Gedda, Orchestra & Chorus of Rome Opera & Roger Soyer
- Birgit Nilsson, Eberhard Wächter, Gerhard Stolze, Sir Georg Solti & Vienna Philharmonic
- Claudio Abbado, Barbara Bonney, Berlin Philharmonic, Brigitte Poschner, Bryn Terfel, Endrik Wottrich, Eric Ericson, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Harry Peeters, Iris Vermillion, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Karita Mattila, Susan Graham, Swedish Radio Choir & Tölzer Knabenchor
- Sergei Alexashkin, Ljuba Kazarnovskaya, Chorus of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev
- Anton Dermota, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erna Berger, ORF Salzburg, Vienna Philharmonic & Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Thomas Hampson, José Van Dam, Michel Plasson, Nadine Denize, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Cheryl Studer & Ben Heppner