Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
- Empire Brass & William Kuhlman
- Anne Sofie von Otter, Arleen Auger, Bryn Terfel, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Jerry Hadley & Leontyne Price
- Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Delores Ziegler, Marietta Simpson, John Aler, William Stone & Thomas Paul
- Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Jesús López-Cobos
- Christophe Rousset, Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood
- The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock
- Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner