- 1981
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Renata Tebaldi & Teresa Berganza
- Anton Dermota, Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena, Hilde Gueden, Josef Krips, Lisa Della Casa, Suzanne Danco, Walter Berry, Vienna Philharmonic & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
- Berlin Philharmonic & Fritz Lehmann
- Alberto Erede, Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Giuseppe Campora, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia & Renata Tebaldi
- Ann Murray, Bryn Terfel, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michele Pertusi, Renée Fleming & Sir Georg Solti
- Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Léopold Simoneau, Rolando Panerai, Sesto Bruscattini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman, Philharmonia Chorus & Lisa Otto
- Leonard Bernstein, Norman Scribner Choir, New York Philharmonic & Westminster Choir