- Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
- Wiener Philharmoniker & Josef Krips
- Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Philharmonia Orchestra & Riccardo Muti
- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan & Seiji Ozawa
- London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Lamberto Gardelli, Elena Suliotis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov & Ambrosian Opera Chorus
- Bernard Haitink, Brigitte Lindner, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Doris Soffel, Edita Gruberová, Lucia Popp, Marilyn Richardson, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Theodore Holzinger & Tölzer Knabenchor
- Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti