- Boris Khaikin & Ivan Petrov
- Sir Peter Pears, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten
- Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic Society, Academic Grand Choir of the All-Union Radio and TV, Dmitri Kitayenko, Vyacheslav Voinarovsky & Evgeny Nesterenko
- Marilyn Horne, Dimiter Petkov, Georges Prêtre, Nicolai Gedda, Orchestra & Chorus of Rome Opera & Roger Soyer
- Sergei Alexashkin, Ljuba Kazarnovskaya, Chorus of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev
- Vladimir Galusin, Valentina Tsidipova, Marianna Tarassova, Chorus of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev
- Bernard Haitink, Galina Gorchakova, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Richard Margison, Olga Borodina & Robin Leggate