- Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado & Karita Mattila
- Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Eugen Jochum, Franz Crass, Gerd Nienstedt, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Pierre Boulez, Rafael Kubelik, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Wilhelm Pitz
- Adolfo Dallapozza, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gundula Janowitz, Hans Sotin, Leonard Bernstein, Lucia Popp, Manfred Jungwirth, René Kollo, Vienna Philharmonic & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
- Charles Munch & Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Birgit Nilsson, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
- Barbara Bonney, Gösta Winbergh, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Matthias Goerne, Riccardo Chailly & Sara Fulgoni
- Christian Thielemann, Deborah Voigt, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Thomas Moser