1 January 1979 41 songs, 3 hours 2 minutes A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1979, 1988 Parlophone Records Limited
- Elly Ameling, Helen Watts, Werner Krenn, Tom Krause, Wiener Akademie-Chor, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra & Karl Münchinger
- Carlo Felice Cillario, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Montserrat Caballé, Shirley Verrett & Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra
- Richard Bonynge, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sherrill Milnes & Dame Joan Sutherland
- Alfredo Kraus, Elena Obratsova, Alberto Rinaldi, Daniela Mazzuccato, Nicola Zaccaria, Walter Gullino, Giorgio Lormi, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, La Scala Chorus & Georges Prêtre
- Birgit Nilsson, Karl Böhm, Jon Vickers, Ruth Hesse, Walter Berry, New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestre National de France
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
- Geraint Evans, Hans Sotin, Otto Klemperer, Yvonne Minton, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Dame Margaret Price & Luigi Alva