Im Spotlight
- Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Ludwig Weber, Wiener Philharmoniker & Erich Kleiber
- Alfredo Kraus, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Carlo Rizzi
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Lorin Maazel & Waltraud Meier
- Gundula Janowitz, Dame Gwyneth Jones, James King, Thomas Stewart, Karl Ridderbusch, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Rafael Kubelik
- Jessye Norman, Siegfried Jerusalem, Berliner Philharmoniker & James Levine
- Bernard Haitink, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Galina Gorchakova, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Olga Borodina, Richard Margison & Robin Leggate
- Brigitte Fassbaender, Edda Moser, Heinz Wallberg, Henryk Czyż, Klaus Tennstedt & Nicolai Gedda