- Claudio Abbado
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lucia Popp & Peter Schreier
- Tibor de Machula, Gundula Janowitz, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Bernard Haitink
- Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim
- Magdalena Kožená, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Sir Simon Rattle
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Orchestre De Paris, Daniel Barenboim & Jessye Norman
- George Szell, London Symphony Orchestra & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf