January 1, 1988 16 songs, 1 hour 3 minutes ℗ 1988 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
- Sir Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, English Opera Group, English Chamber Orchestra & Steuart Bedford
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Bernadette Greevy, Forbes Robinson, Hervey Alan & William Herbert
- Alexander Young, Alfreda Hodgson, Dame Felicity Lott, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dame Margaret Price, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Richard Morton, Sir Adrian Boult & Yvonne Minton
- London Symphony Orchestra, David Wilson-Johnson, London Symphony Chorus, Michele Pertusi, Sir Colin Davis, Enkelejda Shkosa & Giuseppe Sabbatini
- Lucia Popp, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Wolfgang Brendel, Czech Philharmonic & Prague Philharmonic Chorus
- Gérard Caussé, John Eliot Gardiner & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique