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- Peter Pears off-track
- Boult conducts Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4
- Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - premiere production
- Britten conducts 'The Rape of Lucretia'
- Britten Sinfonietta op 1, Edinburgh Festival 1964
- Callas in London: 'La Traviata' Act 2, Scene 1
- Callas in London: 'Norma' 1952
- Callas, 'La Sonnambula', Edinburgh Festival 1957
- Callas in London: 'Medea' 1959
- Constance Shacklock remembers working with Erich Kleiber at the Covent Garden Opera
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings six Mahler songs
- 'Don Carlos', Covent Garden 1958
- Erich Kleiber 'Wozzeck', London 1953
- Fauré's 'Pénélope', Radio France, 1956
- Flagstad's Wagner in London
- Giulini conducts Rossini's 'Stabat Mater' 1960
- Giulini conducts the War Requiem
- Holst: 'Sāvitri' / Blow: 'Venus and Adonis'
- In fernem Land from 'Lohengrin' sung by Walter Midgley
- Jacob Epstein talks about his work in wartime
- Janáček Violin Sonata, Edinburgh Festival 1964
- Janet Baker in Handel's 'Lucrezia'
- Janet Baker sings Britten's 'Winter Words'
- Janet Baker: Schoenberg and Wellesz
- Joan Sutherland 'Lucia', London 1959
- Jon Vickers in interview with Jon Tolansky
- Jon Vickers in recital, New York 1967
- Kempff plays Brahms
- Klemperer's Choral Symphony, London 1957
- Klemperer's 'Fidelio', Covent Garden 1961
- Koussevitzky conducts Sibelius's Second Symphony
- Koussevitzky conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
- 'Le nozze di Figaro', Glyndebourne, 1958
- 'Le Rossignol', 'Renard', 'Les Noces': Boulez, 1972
- Mackerras conducts Haydn with the LSO in 1958
- Mahler Pioneers: Hermann Scherchen conducts the Adagio of the 10th symphony
- Margaret Price recital, Manchester 1972
- Margaret Price: 'The Shepherd on the Rock'
- Members of the Amadeus Quartet play Mozart with Britten
- Mozart Six Nocturnes with Harper, Baker and Shirley-Quirk
- Mozart's 'Zaide' at the Royal Festival Hall, 1952
- 'Otello', London 1955
- Rare Sutherland and Vickers, London 1957
- Richard Lewis in recital
- Richter plays Beethoven, Aldeburgh 1975
- Richter plays Schubert at Snape
- Roberto Gerhard`s Violin Concerto
- Rostropovich and Richter: Beethoven cello sonatas
- Rostropovich and Rozhdestvensky: cello works
- Rudolf Serkin plays Schubert Sonata D960
- 'Samson', Royal Opera House 1958
- Schoenberg's 'Moses and Aaron', Solti London 1965
- Richter plays Schubert and Liszt at the 1966 Aldeburgh Festival
- Shura Cherkassky plays Britten's 'Holiday Diary'
- Sir Adrian Boult talks about his work with the BBC
- Solti's 'Arabella', London 1965
- Solti's 'Don Giovanni', London 1962
- Solti's 'Eugene Onegin', London 1971
- Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
- The Amadeus Quartet plays Britten and Mozart with Britten
- The art of Zara Dolukhanova
- 'The Rite of Spring', Pierre Monteux 1963
- 'The Trojans', Covent Garden 1957
- Thomas Mann on 'Goethe, the German miracle'
- 'Un ballo in maschera', London 1962
- Victoria de los Ángeles, 'Madama Butterfly' Covent Garden 1957
- Vishnevskaya Operatic Recital
- Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich perform Russian songs
- W H Auden talks about Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Walton's 'Façade' with Peter Pears and Joan Cross
- Webern Five Movements, op 5
- Welitsch 'Ballo', Edinburgh Festival 1949
- Rostropovich plays J C Bach
- Busoni conducted by Horenstein
- Fischer-Dieskau sings Busoni
- Mackerras conducts 'The Makropoulos Case' with ENO
- Beecham conducts Sibelius Symphony No 1
- Boult conducts Mahler Symphony No 7
- Boult conducts Mahler Symphony No 5
- Boult conducts 'Wozzeck'
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Goethe settings
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Kodály, conducted by Kodály
- Janet Baker sings four 'Rückert-Lieder' conducted by Leinsdorf
- Mahler Pioneers: Walter Goehr, 'Das klagende Lied' and Fourth Symphony
- Interview with Leopold Stokowski in 1959
- Stokowski conducts 'Gurrelieder' at the Edinburgh Festival
- Jon Vickers in 'Peter Grimes' with the Royal Opera at the Los Angeles Olympics
- The UK premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony
- Otto Klemperer talks to Peter Heyworth about Schoenberg
- Louis Kentner plays Liszt's Romanian Rhapsody
- Janet Baker sings French songs
- Hugues Cuénod sings French song
- Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven sonatas No 2 and 17
- Rudolf Serkin plays Beethoven sonatas 16 and 23 (Appassionata)
- Leonard Bernstein talks to Lord Harewood
- Erich Kleiber conducts 'Der Rosenkavalier' Act 1
- Verdi's Attila conducted by Giulini
- Markevitch conducts `The Golden Cockerel`
- 'Jenůfa' conducted by Kubelík
- Walton`s Cello Concerto with Piatigorsky
- Sena Jurinac in 'Madame Butterfly'
- Ansermet conducts 'L’Étoile'
- Boult conducts Mahler`s Symphony No. 8
- 'Katya Kabanová' with Shuard, conducted by Kubelík
- Roberto Gerhard's opera 'The Duenna'
- First performance of 'Gloriana'
- Lennox Berkeley`s `Ruth`conducted by Mackerras
- Peter Pears in 'Peter Grimes', conducted by Kubelík
- 'Die Walküre' conducted by Solti
- Walton's 'Troilus and Cressida' at Covent Garden
- Mackerras conducts `The Marriage of Figaro`in 1966
Composers
- Amalia, Anna
- Bach, J C
- Bach, J S
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Bellini, Vincenzo
- Berg, Alban
- Berkeley, Lennox
- Berlioz, Hector
- Blow, John
- Brahms, Johannes
- Britten, Benjamin
- Busoni, Ferruccio
- Caplet, André
- Chabrier, Emmanuel
- Cherubini, Luigi
- Debussy, Claude
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Duparc, Henri
- Dvorak, Antonin
- Fauré, Gabriel
- Gerhard, Roberto
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Haydn, Joseph
- Holst, Gustav
- Honegger, Arthur
- Janáček, Leoš
- Khrennikov, Tikhon
- Kodály, Zoltán
- Liszt, Franz
- Mahler, Gustav
- Massenet, Jules
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Mussorgsky, Modest
- Poulenc, Francis
- Prokofiev, Sergei
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Purcell, Henry
- Ravel, Maurice
- Reger, Max
- Reichardt, Johann Friedrich
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
- Rossini, Gioachino
- Scarlatti, Alessandro
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schubert, Franz
- Schumann, Robert
- Shebalin, Vissarion
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Sibelius, Jean
- Strauss, Richard
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Wagner, Richard
- Walton
- Walton, Sir William
- Webern, Anton
- Wellesz, Egon
- Zelter, Carl Friedrich
Singers
- Bailey, Noman
- Baker, Janet
- Barbieri, Fedora
- Bastianini, Ettore
- Berganza, Teresa
- Brannigan, Owen
- Braun, Victor
- Brouwenstijn, Gré
- Brown, Wilfred
- Callas, Maria
- Carlyle, Joan
- Christoff, Boris
- Coates, Edith
- Cossotto, Fiorenza
- Cotrubas, Ileana
- Craig, Charles
- Crespin, Régine
- Cross, Joan
- Cuénod, Hugues
- Danco, Suzanne
- de los Ángeles, Victoria
- Della Casa, Lisa
- Deller, Alfred
- Dolukhanova, Zara
- English, Gerald
- Evans, Geraint
- Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich
- Fisher, Sylvia
- Flagstad, Kirsten
- Forrester, Maureen
- Freni, Mirella
- Glynne, Howell
- Gobbi, Tito
- Guelfi, Gian Giacomo
- Harper, Heather
- Harwood, Elizabeth
- Haywood, Lorna
- Hemsley, Thomas
- Hotter, Hans
- Howells, Anne
- Jobin, Raoul
- Jurinac, Sena
- Kozlovsky, Ivan
- Kraus, Otakar
- Laszlo, Magda
- Lemeshev, Sergei
- Lewis, Richard
- Lorengar, Pilar
- Ludwig, Christa
- Luxon, Benjamin
- Mancini, Caterina
- McCracken, James
- Midgley, Walter
- Monti, Nicola
- Nillius, Heinrich
- Partridge, Ian
- Pavarotti, Luciano
- Pears, Peter
- Picchi, Mirto
- Pollak, Anna
- Price, Margaret
- Procter, Norma
- Rankin, Nell
- Robinson, Forbes
- Roux, Michel
- Sciutti, Graziella
- Shacklock, Constance
- Shirley-Quirk, John
- Shuard, Amy
- Siepi, Cesare
- Silveri, Paolo
- Stich-Randall, Teresa
- Stignani, Ebe
- Sutherland, Joan
- Tajo, Italo
- Tear, Robert
- Thebom, Blanche
- Tinsley, Pauline
- Välkki, Anita
- Vallin, Ninon
- Verrett, Shirley
- Vickers, Jon
- Vinay, Ramón
- Vishnevskaya, Galina
- Vyvyan, Jenifer
- Walters, Jess
- Welitsch, Ljuba
- Wilbrink, Hans
- Woytowicz, Stefania
- Zaccaria, Nicola
- Żylis-Gara, Teresa
Instrumentalists
Pianists
- Britten, Benjamin
- Cherkassky, Shura
- Engel, Karl
- Gage, Irwin
- Hamburger, Paul
- Isepp, Martin
- Kempff, Wilhelm
- Kentner, Louis
- Leinsdorf, Erich
- Lockhart, James
- Lush, Ernest
- Malcolm, George
- Mewton-Wood, Noel
- Moore, Gerald
- Parsons, Geoffrey
- Richter, Sviatoslav
- Rostropovich, Mstislav
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Stone, Frederick
- Svetlanova, Nina
- Wilde, David
Years
Performance Places
- Aldeburgh
- Aldeburgh Parish Church
- BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
- BBC Studios
- Blythburgh Church, Suffolk
- Calgary
- Carnegie Hall, New York
- Cheltenham Town Hall
- Edinburgh
- Friends' Meeting House, Manchester
- Glyndebourne
- Helsinki Festival
- Kings Theatre, Edinburgh
- London Coliseum, London
- Los Angeles
- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
- Rome
- Royal Albert Hall, London
- Royal Albert Hall, London
- Royal Festival Hall, London
- Royal Opera House, London
- Sadlers Wells
- Scala Theatre, London, UK
- Snape Maltings
- St Johns Smith Square, London
- Studios of Swiss Radio, Geneva
- Teatro la Fenice, Venice
- Usher Hall, Edinburgh
- Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Ensembles
- Amadeus Quartet
- Amici String Quartet
- BBC Opera Chorus
- BBC Opera Orchestra
- BBC Singers
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Borodin String Quartet
- Choeurs National de Paris
- Covent Garden Opera
- Edinburgh Royal Choral Union
- English Chamber Orchestra
- English National Opera
- English Opera Group
- Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
- Goldsmiths' Choral Union
- London Mozart Players
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Melos Ensemble
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
- Orchestra Sinfonica and Coro di Milano della RAI
- Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- Orchestre National de Paris
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR
- Royal Opera House Orchestra
- Royal Opera, Covent Garden
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sadlers Wells Opera
- Scottish National Orchestra
- The Royal Opera Chorus
- Wigmore Ensemble
Conductors
- Ansermet, Ernest
- Balkwill, Bryan
- Beecham, Sir Thomas
- Blech, Harry
- Boulez, Pierre
- Boult, Sir Adrian
- Britten, Benjamin
- Chabalala, Zdeněk
- Davis, Sir Colin
- Downes, Edward
- Gibson, Sir Alexander
- Giulini, Carlo Maria
- Goehr, Walter
- Gui, Vittorio
- Horenstein, Jasha
- Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Emile
- Kempe, Rudolf
- Khaikin, Boris
- Kleiber, Erich
- Klemperer, Otto
- Kodály, Zoltán
- Koussevitzky, Serge
- Kubelík, Rafael
- Leinsdorf, Erich
- Leppard, Raymond
- Mackerras, Sir Charles
- Markevitch, Igor
- Monteux, Pierre
- Pritchard, Sir John
- Rankl, Karl
- Rescigno, Nicola
- Rostropovich, Mstislav
- Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi
- Sacher, Paul
- Sargent, Sir Malcolm
- Scherchen, Hermann
- Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans
- Serafin, Tullio
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Solti, Georg
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Svetlanov, Yevgeny
- Votto, Antonino
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