- Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado & Karita Mattila
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, London Symphony Orchestra & George Szell
- The Philadelphia Orchestra & Riccardo Muti
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Lorin Maazel
- Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich & Otto Klemperer
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti
- Jessye Norman, Siegfried Jerusalem, Berlin Philharmonic & James Levine