- Aase Nordmo-Lovberg, Theo Adam, Astrid Varnay, Eberhard Wächter, Bayreuth Festival Choir, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Lorin Maazel
- Ettore Bastianini, Margherita Roberti, Gastone Limarilli, Miriam Pirazzini, Paolo Washington, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Bruno Bartoletti
- The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato
- Nancy Gustafson, Dawn Kotoski, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Thomas Hampson, Walter Fink, Egils Silins, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Fabio Luisi
- Pilar Lorengar, Richard Lewis, Margareta Hallin, Mihaly Szekely, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
- Ramon Vinay, Carla Martinis, Paul Schoffler, Vienna Philharmonic & Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Hilde Gueden, Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren, Jean Madeira, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Alberto Erede