- Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Maria Callas & Gino Penno
- Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic & Wiener Singverein
- Georges Prêtre, Paris Opera Orchestra, Rita Gorr & Jon Vickers
- Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Ludwig Suthaus, Herbert von Karajan, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Christa Ludwig, Jean Madeira, Lotte Rysanek, Gerda Scheyrer, Margareta Sjoestedt, Martha Rohs, Rosette Anday, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Leonie Rysanek, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Judith Hellwig & Gottlob Frick
- Claudio Abbado & London Symphony Orchestra
- Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren, The Metropolitan Opera & Dimitri Mitropoulos