- Joseph Calleja, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Carlo Rizzi
- Geoffrey Parsons & Thomas Hampson
- Camerata Salzburg, Elīna Garanča & Louis Langrée
- Bernard Haitink, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Galina Gorchakova, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Olga Borodina, Richard Margison & Robin Leggate
- Evelino Pidò, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Roberto Alagna