텔레그라프(Telegraph) 2009 Best 100

Opera

1 Beethoven Fidelio (conductor Otto Klemperer) EMI

2 Mozart Così fan tutte (conductor Bernard Haitink) EMI

3 Mozart Die Zauberflöte (conductor Otto Klemperer) EMI

4 Puccini Tosca (conductor Victor de Sabata) EMI

5 Rossini La Cenerentola (conductor Riccardo Chailly) Decca

6 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (conductor Erich Kleiber) Decca

7 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (conductor Semyon Bychkov) Philips

8 Verdi Don Carlos (conductor Claudio Abbado) DG

9 Verdi Falstaff (conductor Herbert von Karajan) EMI

10 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (conductor Daniel Barenboim) Warner

Concerto

1 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4 (soloist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) EMI

2 Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4 (soloist Mitsuko Uchida) Philips

3 Beethoven Violin Concerto (soloist Itzhak Perlman) EMI

4 Brahms Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 (soloist Leon Fleisher) Sony

5 Elgar Cello Concerto (soloist Jacqueline du Pré) EMI

6 Grieg and Schumann Piano Concertos (soloist Stephen Kovacevich) Philips

7 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, K 364 (soloists Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman) DG

8 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K 488 (soloist Solomon) Testament

9 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 (soloist Sviatoslav Richter) DG

10 Sibelius Violin Concerto (soloist Leonidas Kavakos) BIS

Piano solo

1 Chopin Martha Argerich The Legendary 1965 Recording EMI

2 Albéniz Iberia (Alicia de Larrocha) Decca

3 Bach Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould) RCA

4 Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (Zoltán Kocsis) Philips

5 Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata (Rudolf Serkin) Sony

6 Brahms Klavierstücke Op 116-119 (Wilhelm Kempff) DG

7 Debussy Préludes Books 1 & 2 (Krystian Zimerman) DG

8 Rachmaninov 24 Preludes (Vladimir Ashkenazy) Decca

9 Schubert Sonata in B flat, D 960 (Clifford Curzon) Decca [or Orfeo]

10 Schumann Fantasy in C (Sviatoslav Richter) EMI

Early and Baroque

1 Vivaldi The Four Seasons (Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante) Virgin Veritas

2 John Dunstaple (Orlando Consort) Metronome

3 Josquin des Prez Missa Pange lingua (The Tallis Scholars) Gimell

4 Tallis Spem in Alium; Lamentations; Mass and Motets (Magnificat) Linn

5 Buxtehude Organ Works (René Saorgin) Harmonia Mundi

6 Claudio Monteverdi L’Orfeo (Emmanuelle Haim, Le Concert D’Astree) Virgin Veritas

7 Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir and Players) Chandos

8 Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert) Archiv

9 Pergolesi Stabat Mater (Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano) Naïve

Choral

1 Bach Mass in B Minor (Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort and Players) Virgin Veritas

2 Bach St Matthew Passion (William Mengelberg, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Toonkunst Choir) Naxos Historical

3 Handel Messiah Pinnock (The English Concert and Choir) Archiv

4 Mozart Requiem (John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists) Philips

5 Schubert Complete Sacred Works (Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir) EMI

6 Berlioz Requiem (Leonard Bernstein, Orchestra Nationale D’Ile de France, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra) Sony

7 Mendelssohn Elijah (Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus) EMI

8 Brahms A German Requiem (Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra and Choir) EMI

9 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Marcus Creed, RIAS Kammerchor) Harmonia Mundi

10 Verdi Requiem (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus) BBC Legends

Chamber

1 Beethoven Late String Quartets (Busch Quartet) EMI

2 Bach Cello Suites (Pablo Casals) EMI

3 Bach Complete Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Nathan Milstein) EMI

4 Haydn Op 76 String Quartets (The Lindsays) ASV

5 Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas (Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer) DG

6 Schoenberg, Schubert Verklärte Nacht; String Quintet (Hollywood String Quartet) Testament

7 Bartók Complete String Quartets (Tokyo String Quartet) DG

8 Elliott Carter String Quartets One to Five (Pacifica Quartet) Naxos

9 Mozart Complete String Quintets (Talich Quartet) Calliope

10 Brahms Schubert Piano Quintet Op 34; Piano Quintet 'The Trout’ D 667 (Amadeus String Quartet, Clifford Curzon) BBC Legends

20th Century

1 Stravinsky Rite of Spring (Sir Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) EMI

2 Debussy La Mer (Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra) Pearl

3 Ives Symphony 2 (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) DG

4 Bartók Orchestral Masterworks (Sir Georg Solti, London Symphony Orchestra) Decca

5 Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Mstislav Rostropovich, London Philharmonic Orchestra) EMI

6 Messiaen Vingts Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus (Yvonne Loriod) Erato

7 Ligeti Études (Pierre-Laurent Aimard) Sony

8 Andriessen De Staat (Lucas Vis, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble) NBE Live

9 Boulez Répons, Dialogue de L’Ombre Double (Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain) 20/21 [DG]

Orchestral

1 Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7 (Carlos Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) DG

2 Haydn Symphonies 93-104 (Sir Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) EMI

3 Mozart Complete Symphonies (Karl Böhm, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) DG

4 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Zubin Mehta, London Philharmonic Orchestra) Apex

5 Brahms Complete Symphonies (Kurt Sanderling, Dresden Staatskapelle) RCA

6 Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 (Evgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra) DG

7 Bruckner Complete Symphonies (Günter Wand, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra) RCA Red Seal

8 Sibelius Complete Symphonies (Sir Anthony Collins, London Symphony Orchestra) Beulah

9 Strauss Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Also Sprach Zarathrustra (Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra) RCA Victor

10 Mahler Symphony 9 (Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) DG

20th-Century English

1 Vaughan Williams Symphony 5 (Dona Nobis Pacem LPO/ BBCSO/ Vaughan Williams) Somm

2 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures (Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Kim Borg, Hallé Orch & Sheffield Philharmonic Choirs, LSO/Barbirolli) EMI

3 Elgar Symphony 1 & 2 and Short Pieces (BBCSO/Boult) EMI

4 Elgar Violin Concerto (Yehudi Menuhin/LSO Elgar) EMI

5 Elgar and Vaughan Williams Barbirolli Conducts English Music for Strings (Sinfonia of London, New Philharmonia) EMI

6 Britten War Requiem (Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bach and other Choirs, LSO/ Britten) Decca

7 Delius Brigg Fair, Appalachia etc (LPO/Beecham) Naxos+EMI

8 Turnage Twice Through the Heart, Hidden Love Song, In Torn Fields (Sarah Connolly, Gerald Finley, LPO Marin Alsop) LPO Live

9 Finzi Dies Natalis (Toby Spence and Scottish Ensemble) Wigmore Hall Live

10 Tippett A Child of Our Time (Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Jon Garrison, John Cheek, CBSO & Chorus/Tippett) Collins

Song

1 Schubert Winterreise (Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore) EMI

2 Schubert, Wolf (Irmgard Seefried) BBC Legends

3 Schubert (Bernarda Fink) Harmonia Mundi

4 Schubert A Voyage of Discovery Hyperion

5 Schubert (Lucia Popp) EMI

6 Schumann, Brahms (Kathleen Ferrier) Naxos

7. Strauss (Christine Brewer, Roger Vignoles) Hyperion

8 Wagner, Mahler (Kirsten Flagstad, Vienna Philharmonic) Decca

9. Un Frisson Français (Susan Graham) Onyx

10 Brahms, Schumann (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson) Wigmore Hall Live 2008