Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 by Dame Janet Baker
- Sir Neville Marriner, Jill Gomez, Philip Langridge, Robert Tear, Benjamin Luxon & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Roland Bracht, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Robert Gambill, Nicolai Gedda, Tom Krause, Peter Lika, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Bernd Weikl & Serge Baudo
- Victoria De Los Angeles, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, André Cluytens, Georges Prêtre, Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Munch
- Victoria de los Ángeles & Gerald Moore
- Brian Culverhouse, Felicity Palmer, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox
- Sir Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Theodor Uppman, Frederick Dalberb & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden