- Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Delores Ziegler, Marietta Simpson, John Aler, William Stone & Thomas Paul
- Barbara Bonney, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood & Jacob Heringman
- Cheryl Studer, Emerson String Quartet, John Browning & Thomas Hampson
- Elly Ameling
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Boston Symphony Orchestra & James Levine
- Anne Sofie von Otter