- 1976
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Luis Cobos & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Leonard Bernstein, Eileen Farrell & New York Philharmonic
- Helmut Deutsch & Jonas Kaufmann
- Constantine Orbelian, Russia Philharmonia, Sondra Radvanovsky & Moscow Academy of Choral Art
- Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Boston Symphony Orchestra & James Levine