- Vienna Philharmonic, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ulf Schirmer, Uwe Heilmann, Håkan Hagegård & Olaf Bär
- Barbara Bonney, Gösta Winbergh, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Matthias Goerne, Riccardo Chailly & Sara Fulgoni
- Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Christa Ludwig & Walter Berry
- Christian Gerhaher, Daniel Harding & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Georg Solti, Philip Langridge, Franz Mazura, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Victoria De Los Angeles, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, André Cluytens, Georges Prêtre, Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Munch
- Sir Simon Rattle