- Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Angela Gheorghiu & Roberto Alagna
- English Opera Group, London Symphony Orchestra & George Malcolm
- Karl Böhm, Filarmônica de Viena, Anton Dermota, Emmy Loose, Paul Schoeffler, Christa Ludwig, Erich Kunz, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Lisa Della Casa
- Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Filarmônica de Viena
- Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Anna Di Stasio, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Florindo Andreolli, James McCracken, Philharmonia Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis & Sir John Barbirolli
- Matthew Hargreaves, David Parry, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Majella Cullagh, Paul Austin Kelly & Bruce Ford
- Valery Gergiev & San Francisco Opera Orchestra