| 01 Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Georg Solti / Wiener Philharmoniker (1956-65) Decca |
| 02 Beethoven: Symphony no.5 & 7 - Carlos Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker (1975-6) DG |
| 03 Britten: War Requiem - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Benjamin Britten / London Symphony Orchestra (1962) Decca |
| 04 Bach: The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Glenn Gould (1955) Sony |
| 05 Puccini: Tosca - Maria Callas / Victor De Sabata / La Scala Theater Orchestra (1953) EMI |
| 06 Elgar: Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures - Jacqueline du Pré / Janet Baker / John Barbirolli / London Symphony Orchestra (1965) / EMI |
| 07 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Wilhelm Furtwängler / Philharmonia Orchestra (1952) EMI |
| 08 Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été / Ravel: Sheherazade - Régine Crespin / Ernest Ansermet/ L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1963, 1967) Decca |
| 09 Tchaikovsky: Symphonies nos. 4 -6 - Yevgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (1960) DG |
| 10 Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Willard White / Cynthia Haymon / Simon Rattle / London Philharmonic Orchestra (1988) EMI |
| 11 Bach: Six Suites for Solo Cello - Pablo Casals (1936-9) EMI |
| 12 Beethoven: The Late String Quartets - Busch Quartet (1930) EMI |
| 13 Janacek: Katá Kabanová - Elisabeth Söderström / Charles Mackerras / Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra (1977) Decca |
| 14 Art of the Prima Donna - Joan Sutherland (1960) Decca |
| 15 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Artur Schnabel (1932-8) EMI |
| 16 Hildegard: A Feather on the Breath of God - Emma Kirkby / Andrew Lawrence-King / Gothic Voices / Christopher Page (1981) Hyperion |
| 17 Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 - John Eliot Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists (1989) Archiv |
| 18 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.4 / Ravel : Piano Concerto - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Ettore Gracis/ Philharmonia Orchestra (1957) EMI |
| 19 Chopin: Piano Sonata no.3 - Martha Argerich (1965) EMI |
| 20 Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim / English Chamber Orchestra (1967-1974) EMI |
| 21 Britten: Peter Grimes - Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten / Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra Covent Garden (1958) Decca |
| 22 Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich (1978) ECM |
| 23 Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos.1-4 - Dennis Brain / Herbert von Karajan / Philharmonia Orchestra (1953) EMI |
| 24 Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier -Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Herbert von Karajan / Philharmonia Orchestra (1956) EMI |
| 25 Handel: Messiah - Judith Nelson / Emma Kirkby / Christopher Hogwood / Academy of Ancient Music (1980) L'Oiseau Lyre |
| 26 Allegri: Miserere - Alison Stamp / Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (1980) Gimell |
| 27 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Nicolai Gedda / Gundula Janowitz / Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia Orchestra (1964) EMI |
| 28 Chopin: Etudes - Maurizio Pollini (1972) DG |
| 29 Elgar: Violin Concerto - Yehudi Menuhin / Edward Elgar / London Symphony Orchestra (1932) EMI |
| 30 Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande - Jacques Jansen / Irène Joachim / Roger Désormière / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris (1941) EMI |
| 31 Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde - Kathleen Ferrier / Julius Patzak / Bruno Walter / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1952) Decca |
| 32 Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues - Alexander Melnikov (2010) Harmonia Mundi |
| 33 Bellini: Norma - Maria Callas / Tullio Serafin / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala (1960) EMI |
| 34 Brahms: Symphony no.4 - Carlos Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker (1981) DG |
| 35 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe - Pierre Monteux / London Symphony Orchestra (1961) Decca |
| 36 Verdi: Requiem - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Carlo Maria Guilini / Philharmonia Orchestra (1964) EMI |
| 37 Chopin: Nocturnes - Claudio Arrau (1978) Philips |
| 38 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Erich Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1955) Decca |
| 39 Beethoven: Fidelio - Christa Ludwig / John Vickers / Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia Orchestra (1962) EMI |
| 40 Janacek: Jenůfa - Elisabeth Söderström / Charles Mackerras / Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra (1982) Decca |
| 41 Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge - Karlheinz Stockhausen (1963) DG |
| 42 Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder - Gundula Janowitz / Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Phiharmoniker (1971) DG |
| 43 Berg: Lulu - Teresa Stratas / Pierre Boulez / Orchestra de I'Opera de Paris (1979) DG |
| 44 Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Edwin Fischer (1933-6) EMI 391 9582 |
| 45 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra - Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1955) RCA |
| 46 Britten: Billy Budd - Peter Glossop / Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten / London Symphony Orchestra (1961) Decca |
| 47 Schubert: Fantasie for Piano, 4 Hands, D940 / Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D major, K448 - Murray Perahia / Radu Lupu (1984, 1990) Sony COLSK44915 |
| 48 Smetana: Má Vlast (My Country) - Rafael Kubelik, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1990) Supraphon |
| 49 Mahler: Symphony no.9 - Bruno Walter / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1938) Naxos |
50 Bach: Mass in b minor - Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Vienna Boys' Choir / Concentus Musicus Wien (1968) Teldec
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