Recordings
The Alto Rhapsody is not frequently performed in concert, perhaps because of the expense of hiring a soloist and chorus for a short piece, but it has been recorded many times. A selection of recordings available 2012 illustrates the wide range of tempi adopted by different interpreters of the Rhapsody, with playing times ranging from 11 minutes 45 seconds to 16 minutes 10 seconds.
- Soloist: Dame Janet Baker
- John Alldis Choir
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
- Duration: 11:45
- Soloist: Brigitte Fassbaender
- Prague Philharmonic Chorus
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Duration: 14:28
- Soloist: Kathleen Ferrier
- London Philharmonic Orchestra and Male Choir
- Conductor: Clemens Krauss
- Duration: 15:53
- Performance Date: December 1947
- Collegium Vocale Gent
- Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
- Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
- Duration 11:15
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: Robert Shaw
- Duration: 14:01
- Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: Otto Klemperer
- Duration 12:27
- Wiener Singverein
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Conductor: Karl Böhm
- Duration 16:10
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- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
- Duration: 13:10
- Soloist: Stephanie Blythe
- Ensemble a sei voci
- Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
- Conductor: John Nelson
- Duration: 12:14
- Royal Male Choir, "Apollo"
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Conductor: Eduard Van Beinum
- Duration: 12:43
- Soloist: Marjana Lipovšek
- Ernst Senff Chor
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Conductor: Claudio Abbado
- Duration: 13:04
- Soloist: Natalie Stutzmann
- Monteverdi Choir
- Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
- Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
- Duration: 12:58
- Houston Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
- Duration: 13:55
- Soloist: Kathleen Ferrier
- Men of the Oslo Philharmonic Chorus
- Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Erik Tuxen
- Duration: 13:10
- Performance Date: 14 October 1949
- The Occidental College Chorus
- Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Bruno Walter
- Duration: 12:25
- Performance Date: 11 January 1961
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