- Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
- Carlo Maria Giulini, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Ruth Ziesak, Roberta Alexander, Jard van Nes, Keith Lewis & David Wilson-Johnson
- Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, John Aler, Robert Holl, Tina Kiberg & Waltraud Meier
- New York Philharmonic, New York Choral Artists & Alan Gilbert
- Boston Symphony Orchestra & James Levine
- Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev & London Symphony Chorus