Recordings
There have been more than half a dozen recordings of the opera. The Gala recording of the 1951 live performance is available. A Sony recording, with Judith Raskin as Ann and John Reardon as Nick Shadow, is from London 1964 and is conducted by Stravinsky himself. It is currently available on the Sony/BMG 22 CD box set Works of Igor Stravinsky.
The latest commercially-available recording is from 1999, on Deutsche Grammophon (Catalog number 459648), John Eliot Gardiner conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir. Ian Bostridge (Tom), Deborah York (Anne), Bryn Terfel (Nick), and Anne Sofie von Otter (Baba) round out a young and vibrant cast (von Otter is the eldest at 44 years of age at the time of the recording).
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