- Christa Ludwig
- Lucia Popp, Simon Estes, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden & Sir Colin Davis
- Kathleen Ferrier, Otto Klemperer & Philharmonique de Vienne
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jessye Norman & Tatiana Troyanos
- Dame Janet Baker, Raymond Leppard, Sir Neville Marriner & Yehudi Menuhin
- Edita Gruberová, Edith Mathis, Hans Peter Blochwitz & Leopold Hager