- Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
- Carlos Kleiber, Catarina Ligendza, Helge Brilioth, Kurt Moll & Yvonne Minton
- Kurt Masur & Gewandhausorchester
- Peter Hoffmann, Simon Estes, Hans Sotin, Waltraud Meier, Bayreuth Festival Choir, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & James Levine
- Claudio Abbado
- Edith Mathis, Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa
- Thomas Hampson, José Van Dam, Michel Plasson, Nadine Denize, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Cheryl Studer & Ben Heppner