Director
Barrie Gavin
DIRECTOR
Brian Large
Jamila Patten
William Fitzwater
Denis Moriarty
David Buckton
Rodney Greenberg
Kenneth Corden
Roy Tipping
Rudolph Cartier
Margaret Dale
John Gorrie
Gavin Millar
Tom Scott Robson
Pierre Badel
Antony Craxton
Geoffrey Haydon
James Hunter
Milko Sparemblek
Walter Todds
Alan Benson
Hans Joachim Schulz
Stars (in credits order)
The Philharmonia Orchestra
Themselves
Richard Baker
Self - Commentary
London Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult
Self
Bernard Levin
Self - Interviewer
Otto Klemperer
Thomas Hemsley
Aeneas
Michael Flanders
Self - Presenter
Antony Hopkins
Self - Introduction
André Previn
Janet Baker
Dido
Elizabeth Bainbridge
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Peter Pears
Idomeneo
Gerald Moore
John Warrack
Colin Blakely
Beethoven's voice
Alan Howard
Narrator
Raymond Leppard
Self - Accompanist
Bernard Keeffe
Kenneth van Barthold
Self - Narrator
Georg Solti
English Chamber Orchestra
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Luka
Geraint Evans
Coppelius
Andrew Porter
Alwin Nikolais
Victor Fedotov
Self - Conductor
Gerald Jarvis
Self - Co-Leader of London Philharmonic Orchestra
Victor Shirokov
Elizabeth Robson
Belinda
English Symphony Orchestra
Peter Benson
Self - Orchestra Leader
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Gary Watson
Wiener Philharmoniker
Philip Langridge
Paul Tortelier
Martyn Hill
Alan Dobie
Commentary
Pierre Boulez
Olga Zabotkina
Vadim Budarin
Jörg Demus
Self - Pianist
Daniel Barenboim
John Dobson
Hugo D'Alton
Eli Goren
Radu Lupu
Alexander Young
Colin Davis
Tom Fleming
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Ruggiero Ricci
Lorin Maazel
Kyung-Wha Chung
Clement Freud
Regina Resnik
Madame Popova
Norman Lumsden
The Voice of God
Isaac Stern
Self - Violin
Renato Capecchi
Gianni Schicchi
Elizabeth Harwood
Antonia
Owen Brannigan
Noye
Maddalena Bonifacio
Lauretta
Anne Pashley
Idamante
Michele Molese
Hoffmann
Sheila Rex
Mrs. Noye
Laura Zannini
Zita
Yvonne Minton
Sorceress
Gillian Ramsden
Nicklaus
Ugo Benelli
Rinuccio
Clare Walmesley
1st Witch
Richard Cooper
Ham
John Lawrenson
Crespel
Anthony Williams
High Priest of Neptune
Marcus Creed
Jaffet
Eugenia Ratti
Nella
Ryland Davies
Sailor
Reginald Barratt
Andreas
Hazel Merry
Principal dancer
Graham Allum
Franz
Margaret Lensky
Antonia's Mother
Federico Davià
Simone
David Read
Luther
Billie Hill
Carlotta
Miti Truccato Pace
La Ciesca
Peter Sugden
Regisseur
Marie Rambert
Gayrie MacSween
Dancer
Ivor Mills
Christopher Bruce
John Chesworth
Joss Ackland
Self - Reader
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self - Dancer
Louis Armstrong
George Coulouris
Leopold Stokowski
Ray Barrett
Duke Ellington
Tommy Dorsey
Dave Brubeck
Imogen Claire
Dizzy Gillespie
Norman McLaren
Natalia Makarova
John Donat
Paul Whiteman
Montserrat Caballé
John Dankworth
Benjamin Britten
Hermione Farthingale
Robin Ramsay
Percy Grainger
Archie Shepp
David Munrow
Wiener Sängerknaben
Tim Souster
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Modern Jazz Quartet
Alla Osipenko
ACTOR
Lester Young
Petra Siniawski
Gunther Schuller
Aleksandr Pavlovskiy
Irina Kolpakova
Masha
Norman Granz
James Bowman
Cecil Taylor
Janie Kells
Jim Douglas Henry
Antonio Mairena
Shanta Rao
Colin Bradbury
Self - Clarinet
Farruco
Manuel Morao
Hugh Bean
David Hepburn
Peter Newton
Moura Lympany
Sergei Vykulov
Choir of Kings College Cambridge
James Harpham
Keith Erwen
Elena Evteyeva
Hugh Maguire
Carl Dolmetsch
Rae Woodland
Elektra
Wally Michaels
Vernon Handley
Self - Associate Conductor
Denis Mathews
Hallam Tennyson
Tamás Vásáry
Yury Solovyov
Aurelio Seller
Early Music Consort of London
George Shirley
Self - Tenor
Alphonse Picou
David Willcocks
Patrick Ireland
Self - Viola
Ruth Nye
Self - Piano
Willie Thomas
Teresa Zylis-Gara
Self - Soprano
Janet Craxton
Self - Oboe
Fernanda de Utrera
Olga Vtorushina
Chinese Dance
Ursula Connors
Heather Harper
Ilia
Theo Adam
Self - Bass
Paul Nemeer
A Priest
Anton Neyder
Self - Choir Conductor
Victoria de los Ángeles
Leon Lestocq-Prayne
The Ambrosian Singers
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Michael Ingleton
Robert Tear
Arbace
Brian Blessed
Michele Dotrice
Lindsay Anderson
Leonard Bernstein
Plácido Domingo
Gareth Forwood
Robert Anderson
Julian Bream
Stephen Murray
Gwyneth Jones
Singer
Alfred Brendel
Richard Cassilly
Elisabeth Söderström
Yehudi Menuhin
Teresa Stratas
Suzanne McDermaid
Galina Vishnevskaya
Anne Evans
Alan Foss
Self - Quotations read by
Wanda Pruska
Shirley Verrett
Tristan Fry
Mstislav Rostropovich
Jean-Pierre Bonnefous
Hippolytus
Mireille Nègre
Aricia
Felicity Palmer
The Angel
Donald McIntyre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Grace Bumbry
Barry McDaniel
Bryan Magee
Harrison Birtwistle
Jeremy Menuhin
Tandy Beal
Gwynne Howell
James Teeters
Dennis Wicks
Robert Simpson
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Stuart Burrows
Shin'ichi Suzuki
Éric Heidsieck
Louis Kentner
Sinichi Suzuki
Delia Wallis
Christopher Keyte
Wise Man
Josephine Veasey
Shulamit Ran
Emery Hermans
Claire Motte
Phèdre
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Carolyn Carlson
Raymond Raikes
John Amis
Theseus
Henrik Szering
Self - Solo Violin
Gerald Otte
William Glock
Jess Thomas
Nikolais Dance Theatre
Paul Esswood
Shepherd
Bob Beswick
John Wood
Cyril Shaps
Erik Satie
David Waller
Socrates
Jennifer Hill
Beverly Sills
Herbert Chappell
Maurizio Pollini
Andre Watts
Desmond Bradley
Birgit Nilsson
Hans Keller
Alfred Kalmus
Andor Foldes
John Lill
Fou Ts'ong
Helene Berg
Nathan Milstein
Harry Mortimer
Alan Delziel
Ian Engelmann
David Franklin
Jascha Horenstein
John McCabe
Willi Reich
Robin Ray
Joan Carlyle
John Tavener
André Tchaíkowsky
Alexis Weissenberg
James Judd
I Musici
Michael Ponti