January 3, 1994 17 songs, 1 hour 9 minutes ℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
- MDR-Rundfunkchor, Peter Schreier, Barbara Hendricks, Staatskapelle Dresden, Pamela Coburn, Hans Peter Blochwitz & Andreas Schmidt
- Agnes Baltsa, London Symphony Orchestra & Jeffrey Tate
- Birgit Nilsson, Karl Böhm, Leonie Rysanek, Jean Madeira, Thomas Stewart, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Andreas Schmidt, Melanie Diener, Yvonne Naef, Ralf Lukas, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Michael Gielen, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden, Robert Dean Smith, Gerhard Siegel & MDR Leipzig Radio Choir
- Carlos Kleiber, Catarina Ligendza, Helge Brilioth, Kurt Moll & Yvonne Minton