- Sir Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic
- Wilhelm Furtwängler, Vienna Philharmonic, Kirsten Flagstad & Philharmonia Orchestra
- Leonard Bernstein, Eileen Farrell & New York Philharmonic
- Alfred Reiter, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Dorothea Röschmann, Gunnar Gudbjornsson, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Jane Eaglen, Peter Seiffert, René Pape, Staatskapelle Berlin, Stephan Rügamer, Thomas Hampson & Waltraud Meier
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Riccardo Chailly
- Sir Georg Solti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- The Philadelphia Orchestra & Christian Thielemann