- Wilhelm Furtwängler & Berlin Philharmonic
- Herbert von Karajan & Vienna Philharmonic
- Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden State Opera Chorus, Hans Vonk, Kurt Sanderling, Jeffrey Tate, Herbert Blomstedt, Otmar Suitner, Rudolf Neuhaus, Siegfried Kurz, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Walter Berry, Peter Schreier, Edith Mathis, Hermann Prey, Fritz Ollendorff, Siegfried Vogel, Günther Leib, Anneliese Rothenberger, Jürgen Förster, Lisa Della Casa, Hilde Gueden, Christian Funke, Oskar Michalik, Rosemarie Rönisch & Annelies Burmeister
- Rudolf Serkin, New York Philharmonic & Bruno Walter
- Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tancredi Pasero, Fedora Barbieri, Giacinto Prandelli, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus & Gabriella Gatti
- Birgit Nilsson, Eberhard Wächter, Gerhard Stolze, Sir Georg Solti & Vienna Philharmonic