- Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic, Angela Gheorghiu & Roberto Alagna
- Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic & Wiener Singverein
- Bruno Walter, Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic, Jennie Tourel, Léopold Simoneau, Irmgard Seefried, William Warfield & John Finley Williamson
- Leonard Bernstein & Montserrat Caballé
- Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Donald Litaker, Gabriele Sima, Klaus König, Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Waltraud Meier
- Chorus of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev
- Agnes Baltsa, London Symphony Orchestra & Jeffrey Tate