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March 13, 2001 43 songs, 1 hour 40 minutes ℗ 1958 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. Digital remastering (P) 2001 by EMI Records Ltd.
- Wolfgang Brendel, Kurt Rydl, Plácido Domingo, Agnes Baltsa, Helmut Lohner, Munich Radio Orchestra, Eva Lind, Lucia Popp, Ulrike Steinsky, Heinz Zednik & Peter Seiffert
- Stuttgart State Opera Chorus, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Peter Schrottner, Ferdinand Leitner, Wurttemberg State Theatre Chorus Stuttgart, Wurttemberg State Theatre Orchestra Stuttgart, Robert Shaw Chorale, Renato Cellini, The RCA Victor Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Joseph Keilberth, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra, RIAS Kammerchor, Richard Kraus, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Heinrich Hollreiser, Arthur Rother, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Fritz Lehmann, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Munich State Opera Chorus, Beniamino Gigli, Philharmonia Chorus, Stanford Robinson & Philharmonic Orchestra
- Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Astrid Varnay, Max Lorenz, Lauritz Melchior, Hans Hotter & Josef Greindl
- Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, Dame Margaret Price & Munich Radio Orchestra
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Fritz Wunderlich & Ferdinand Leitner
- Fernando Corena, Suzanne Danco, Cesare Siepi, Kurt Böhme, Anton Dermota, Lisa Della Casa, Hilde Güden, Walter Berry, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic & Josef Krips