1 TCHAIKOVSKY. Overture, 1812.

National Symphony Orchestra. Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London, 28 November 1945.

Decca, K1349-50 (78 r.p.m).

2 BEETHOVEN. Overture, Coriolan.

National Symphony Orchestra. Kingsway Hall, London, 29 November 1945.

Decca, matrix nos AR 9875-1-2; AR9876-1 (78 rpm.). The World's Encyclopedia of Recorded Music by Francis F. Clough and G. J. Cummings attributes a catalogue number, K1355, to this recording, but it seems it was never issued. Goodall's own test pressings have survived.

3 BEETHOVEN. Overture, Leonora No. 1

National Symphony Orchestra. Kingsway Hall, London, 9 January 1946.

Decca, matrix nos AR9970-1-2; AR 9971 (78 rpm). As with Coriolan (above), WERM attributes a catalogue number, K1471, but again it seems to have remained unissued. Test pressings of side 1 only have survived.

4 BRITTEN. The Rape of Lucretia, abridged.

Nancy Evans, Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Norman Lumsden, Denis Dowling, Frederick Sharp, Flora Nielsen, Margaret Ritchie, English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra. A photograph taken at the sessions suggests that Goodall himself played the piano for the recitatives.

Recorded at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London; 16-19 July, 19 October 1947 and released in 1948 on eight 78 rpm. discs, HMV C 3699-706. The CD version (1993), in a box of historic Britten recordings, EMI 7 64727 2, has an extra number, ‘Here the thirsty evening’ from Act 1, that was not included in the original release

5 BRITTEN. Peter Grimes, excerpts.

Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Tom Culbert (the rector); BBC Theatre Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. No 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London; 12, 14, 16, 17 July 1948.

Eleven 78 r.p.m. sides were recorded by Columbia, but none was released until 1972, when eight of them were included in a three-disc LP set, Stars of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells (HMV, RLS 707). Finally, in 1993, all eleven appeared on CD in an EMI Britten box that also includes Goodall's Rape of Lucretia recording (No. 4, above). For more about these discs see pp 112 and 117-118.

6 MEYERBEER. L’Africaine: ‘O Paradiso!’

Walter Midgley, Royal Opera House Orchestra. Kingsway Hall, London, 8 June 1951.

HMV matrix nos 2EA 15690-1-2 (78 rpm). Unpublished; matrices destroyed in 1953.