| 1 | — | Caruso: The First Recordings | Various Artists | Broadcast + Compilation | | 1 |
| 2 | 1924 | Rhapsody in Blue | Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra, (The Composer at the piano) | Single | | 1 |
| 3 | — | Beethoven: Violinkonzert D-Dur op. 61 | Ludwig van Beethoven; Fritz Kreisler, Leo Blech, Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin | Album | | 1 |
| 4 | 2002 | Great Chamber Music Recordings: Trios in D minor | Mendelssohn, Schumann; Jacques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 5 | 1951 | Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor | Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra | Album | | 1 |
| 6 | — | Concerto no. 3 pour piano et orchestre | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; Vladimir Horowitz, London Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates | Album | | 1 |
| 7 | 2011 | The Complete Piano Sonatas | Ludwig van Beethoven; Artur Schnabel | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 8 | 1987 | Elgar: Enigma Variations / Debussy: La Mer | Elgar, Debussy; Arturo Toscanini & BBC Symphony Orchestra | Album + Compilation + Live | | 1 |
| 9 | — | Violin Concerto in D Minor | Jean Sibelius; Jascha Heifetz, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham | Album | | 1 |
| 10 | 1973 | Symphony no. 9 in D major | Mahler; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter | Album | | 8 |
| 11 | 1974 | The Six Cello Suites | Johann Sebastian Bach; Pablo Casals | Album | | 10 |
| 12 | 2003 | Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 | Brahms, Tchaikovsky; Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 13 | 1990 | Strauss dirigiert Strauss | Richard Strauss | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 14 | 1992 | Blow the Wind Southerly: British Songs | Kathleen Ferrier | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 15 | 1953 | Waltzes | Chopin; Dinu Lipatti | Album | | 8 |
| 16 | 1951 | Knoxville: "Summer of 1915" for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 24 / Four Excursions, Op. 20 | Samuel Barber; Eleanor Steber, William Strickland, The Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Firkusny | Album | | 1 |
| 17 | 1952 | Operatic Duets | Jussi Bjoerling, Robert Merrill, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 18 | 1987 | Symphony no. 9 | Beethoven; Arturo Toscanini | Album | | 2 |
| 19 | 2001 | Asrael | Suk; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Talich | Album | | 1 |
| 20 | 1952 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner; Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Rhydderch Davies, Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wilhelm Furtwängler | Album | | 11 |
| 21 | 1952 | Aïda | Verdi - Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Aldo Protti, Alberto Erede, Coro e Orchestra Dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia | Album | | 3 |
| 22 | 1990 | Vier letzte Lieder | Richard Strauss; Lisa della Casa | Album | | 3 |
| 23 | 1985 | Tosca | Puccini; Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata | Album | | 15 |
| 24 | 1992 | Piano Concerto no. 1 | Brahms; Arthur Rubinstein, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner | Album | | 1 |
| 25 | 1956 | The Goldberg Variations | Bach; Glenn Gould | Album | 4.2 | 13 |
| 26 | 1989 | Le nozze di Figaro | Mozart; Siepi, Gueden, della Casa, Danco, Poell, Corena, Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber | Album | | 3 |
| 27 | 1958 | Concerto for Orchestra | Béla Bartók; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner | Album | | 3 |
| 28 | 1995 | Symphonien Nos. 4, 5, 6 | Peter Tschaikowsky; Leningrader Philharmonie, Kurt Sanderling, Evgeny Mravinsky | Album | | 2 |
| 29 | 1956 | Piano Concertos | Grieg, Schumann; Solomon, Herbert Menges, Philharmonia | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 30 | 1988 | Kurt Weill: Berlin & American Theater Songs | Kurt Weill; Lotte Lenya | Album | | 1 |
| 31 | 1959 | Daphnis et Chloé | Ravel; London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux | Album | | 4 |
| 32 | 1998 | Violin Concerto, op. 99 / Cello Concerto, op. 107 | Shostakovich; Oistrakh, Rostropovich | Album + Compilation | | 3 |
| 33 | 1962 | String Quartet D Minor Op. Posth. / Quartet Movement C Minor Op. Posth. | Schubert; Amadeus-Quartet | Album | | 1 |
| 34 | 1987 | Symphony in C / L’Arlésienne Suites nos. 1 & 2 | Georges Bizet; Sir Thomas Beecham, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Album + Compilation | | 3 |
| 35 | 1995 | Klavierkonzerte 1–3 | Bartók; Géza Anda, Ferenc Fricsay, Radio‐Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin | Album | 5 | 3 |
| 36 | 1962 | St. Matthew Passion | Johann Sebastian Bach; Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus | Album | | 5 |
| 37 | 1961 | David und Igor Oistrach: Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi | Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi; David Oistrach, Igor Oistrach | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 38 | — | Sviatoslav Richter Plays Scriabin / Debussy / Prokofiev | Святослав Теофилович Рихтер | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 39 | 1986 | Benny Goodman Collector's Edition: Compositions & Collaborations | Bartók, Bernstein, Copland, Gould, Stravinsky; Benny Goodman | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 40 | 1965 | Symphony No. 4 | Ives; Leopold Stokowski, American Symphony Orchestra | Album | | 1 |
| 41 | 2000 | Britten at Aldeburgh: Schubert Piano Duets | Schubert; Benjamin Britten, Sviatoslav Richter | Album | | 1 |
| 42 | 1965 | Chichester Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra / Facsimile—A Choreographic Essay | Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, The Camerata Singers, Abraham Kaplan, John Bogart | Album | | 1 |
| 43 | 1965 | Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures | Elgar; Jacqueline du Pré, Sir John Barbirolli, Dame Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra | Album | 4 | 14 |
| 44 | 1989 | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Richard Wagner; Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 45 | 1987 | Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasía para un gentilhombre | Rodrigo; John Williams, Eugene Ormandy, Charles Groves | Album | | 2 |
| 46 | 1991 | Sacred Works | Igor Stravinsky | Album | | 1 |
| 47 | 1998 | Piano Concerto in E-flat major, KV 482 / Piano Concerto in C major, KV 503 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Alfred Brendel, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Paul Angerer | Album | | 1 |
| 48 | 1967 | Das Lied von der Erde | Mahler; Otto Klemperer, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra | Album | | 10 |
| 49 | 1982 | Symphony no. 4 | Mahler; The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, Judith Raskin | Album | | 1 |
| 50 | 2008 | 4 Orchestral Suites | Johann Sebastian Bach; Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Album | 5 | 2 |
| 51 | 1970 | The Four Seasons | Vivaldi; Alan Loveday, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | Album | | 4 |
| 52 | 1993 | Florentine Music of the Fourteenth Century | Early Music Consort of London | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 53 | 1971 | MagnifiCathy: The Many Voices of Cathy Berberian | Cathy Berberian, Bruno Canino | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 54 | 2004 | Piano Works | Charles-Valentin Alkan; Ronald Smith | Album | | 1 |
| 55 | 1996 | The 'Paris' Symphonies | Joseph Haydn; Antal Dorati, Philharmonia Hungarica | Album | | 1 |
| 56 | 1995 | Symphonien nos. 8 & 9 »Aus der Neuen Welt« | Antonín Dvořák; Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelík | Album | | 3 |
| 57 | 1985 | Die schöne Müllerin | Schubert; Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, Gerald Moore | Album | | 1 |
| 58 | 1993 | Canto Gregoriano | Coro de monjes del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos | Album + Compilation | | 6 |
| 59 | 1975 | Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin | Johann Sebastian Bach; Nathan Milstein | Album + Compilation | 4.5 | 3 |
| 60 | 1974 | Drumming / Six Pianos / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ | Steve Reich | Album | | 3 |
| 61 | 1975 | Symphonie Nr. 5 | Beethoven; Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 62 | 1976 | Die Bratschensonaten, op. 120 | Johannes Brahms; Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim | Album | | 1 |
| 63 | 1972 | The Sea Hawk: Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Album + Soundtrack | 3 | 7 |
| 64 | — | Strictly for the Birds | Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli | Album | | 1 |
| 65 | 2002 | Russo: Street Music / Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra / Gershwin: An American in Paris | Russo, Gershwin; San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa | Album | | 1 |
| 66 | 1989 | Káťa Kabanová | Leoš Janáček; Elisabeth Söderström, Petr Dvorský, Naděžda Kniplová, Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Mackerras | Album | | 2 |
| 67 | — | Holst: Suite no. 1 in E-flat / Suite no. 2 in F / Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Bach: Fantasia in G | Holst, Handel, Bach; The Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Frederick Fennell | Album | | 1 |
| 68 | 1991 | Peter Grimes | Britten; Jon Vickers, Heather Harper, Jonathan Summers, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis | Album | | 4 |
| 69 | 1993 | Holst: The Planets / Elgar: ‘Enigma’ Variations | Holst, Elgar; London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult | Album + Compilation | | 5 |
| 70 | 1979 | Lulu | Alban Berg; Teresa Stratas, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez, Yvonne Minton, Hanna Schwarz, Franz Mazura, Kenneth Riegel, Toni Blankenheim, Robert Tear, Helmut Pampuch | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 71 | 1980 | Symphony no. 10 | Mahler; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle | Album | | 5 |
| 72 | 1986 | Clarinet and Oboe Concertos | Mozart; Antony Pay, Michel Piguet, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood | Album | | 2 |
| 73 | 1999 | Rachmaninoff: Suite Op. 17, No. 2 / Ravel: “La Valse” / Lutosławski: Paganini Variations | Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire | Album | | 1 |
| 74 | 1985 | Mass in B minor | J.S. Bach; John Eliot Gardiner | Album | | 3 |
| 75 | 1986 | The Studio Recordings: New York 1985 | Liszt, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin; Vladimir Horowitz | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 76 | 1986 | Otello | Giuseppe Verdi; Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Lorin Maazel | Album | | 3 |
| 77 | 1989 | Music From Estonia, Volume 2 | The Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi | Album | | 2 |
| 78 | 1989 | Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin; Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Glyndebourne Chorus, The London Philharmonic, Simon Rattle | Album | | 4 |
| 79 | 1989 | La Juive | Jacques Fromental Halévy; Philharmonia Orchestra, The Ambrosian Singers, Antonio de Almeida, Júlia Várady, June Anderson, José Carreras, Dalmacio Gonzalez, Ferruccio Furlanetto | Album | | 1 |
| 80 | 1990 | Symphony No. 7 | Anton Bruckner; Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan | Album | 5 | 4 |
| 81 | 1989 | Rossini Arias | Rossini; Cecilia Bartoli, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Giuseppe Patanè | Album | | 1 |
| 82 | 1991 | Symphony no. 1 | Corigliano; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim | Album | | 1 |
| 83 | 1990 | In Concert | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti, Mehta | Album + Live | | 6 |
| 84 | 1991 | 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87 | Shostakovich; Tatiana Nikolayeva | Album | 2 | 1 |
| 85 | 1991 | Symphony no. 1 / Gesang der Parzen | Brahms; Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado | Album | | 1 |
| 86 | 1990 | Black Angels | Kronos Quartet | Album | 5 | 4 |
| 87 | 1992 | Messiah | Handel; Lorraine Hunt, Janet Williams, Patricia Spence, Drew Minter, Jeffrey Thomas, William Parker, U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan | Album | | 1 |
| 88 | 1992 | Symphony no. 3 | Henryk Górecki; Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman | Album | | 7 |
| 89 | — | Symphony no. 6 | Gustav Mahler; Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra | Album + Live | | 1 |
| 90 | 1994 | Der gewaltige Hahnrei / Mediterranean Songs | Berthold Goldschmidt; Alexander, Kraus, Wörle, Otelli, Deutsches Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin, Ainsley, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Lothar Zagrosek | Album | | 1 |
| 91 | 1995 | La traviata | Giuseppe Verdi; Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Georg Solti | Album + Live | | 1 |
| 92 | 1997 | Symphony no. 5 | Anton Bruckner; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Georg Tintner | Album | | 1 |
| 93.1 | 1987 | The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 1: Goethe & Schiller Settings | Franz Schubert; Dame Janet Baker, Graham Johnson | Album | | 1 |
| 94 | 1999 | 9 Symphonies | Beethoven; Tonhalle‐Orchester Zürich, David Zinman | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 95 | 2001 | Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy | Stravinsky, Scriabin; Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev | Album | | 2 |
| 96 | 2001 | Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz; London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis | Album + Live | | 2 |
| 97 | 1992 | Symphony no. 15 | Shostakovich; Cleveland Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling | Album | | 1 |
| 98 | 2002 | The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert românesc | György Ligeti; Berliner Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott | Album | | 1 |
| 99 | 2003 | Dido and Aeneas | Purcell; Susan Graham, Ian Bostridge, Camilla Tilling, Felicity Palmer, David Daniels, Cecile De Boever, Paul Agnew, European Voices, Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm | Album | | 2 |
| 100 | 2005 | Piano Music, Volume I: Préludes I & II | Claude Debussy; Pascal Rogé | Album | 5 | 1 |
