- Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, Dame Margaret Price & Münchner Rundfunkorchester
- Richard Bonynge, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sherrill Milnes & Dame Joan Sutherland
- Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford & Della Jones
- Elly Ameling
- Leonard Bernstein & Montserrat Caballé
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elizabeth Harwood, Sir Peter Pears, Russell Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kathleen Ferrier & Irmgard Seefried