| 1 | Janet Baker | Mahler Kindertotenlieder & Rückert-Lieder (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 90 |
| 2 | Emma Kirkby | Dowland Time Stands Still (Rooley) | 1986 | 85 |
| 3 | Tasmin Little | VW The Lark Ascending / Sym 6 (BBCSO/Davis) | 2022 | 85 |
| 4 | Kathleen Ferrier | Blow the Wind Southerly / British folk songs | 1952 | 83 |
| 5 | Myra Hess | Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (her transcription) | 1957 | 83 |
| 6 | Norma Procter | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Horenstein/LSO; alto solo) | 1970 | 83 |
| 7 | Beatrice Harrison | Elgar: Cello Concerto (composer cond.) | 1928 | 82 |
| 8 | Jacqueline du Pré | Elgar Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures (Barbirolli/LSO) | 1965 | 82 |
| 9 | Marjorie Thomas | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Sargent/Liverpool Phil; the Angel) | 1955 | 82 |
| 10 | Kathleen Ferrier | Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Glyndebourne) | 1947 | 81 |
| 11 | Elsie Suddaby | Bach: St Matthew Passion (Jacques/Bach Choir, sung in English) | 1977 | 80 |
| 12 | Felicity Lott | Songmakers' Almanac: Venezia (Graham Johnson) | 1984 | 80 |
| 13 | Janet Baker | Berlioz Nuits d'été / Ravel Shéhérazade (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 80 |
| 14 | Janet Baker | Schubert Lieder (Moore/Parsons) | 1971 | 80 |
| 15 | Maggie Teyte | Songs By Debussy | 1962 | 80 |
| 16 | Sheila Armstrong | Lieder Recital | 1969 | 79 |
| 17 | Emma Kirkby | Handel Italian Cantatas (AAM/Hogwood) | 1985 | 78 |
| 18 | Felicity Lott | Poulenc Mélodies (Graham Johnson) | 1985 | 78 |
| 19 | Imogen Cooper | Schubert / Beethoven recital | 1977 | 78 |
| 20 | Isata Kanneh-Mason | Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny | 2024 | 78 |
| 21 | Jacqueline du Pré | Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Edinburgh live, Barenboim) | 1970 | 78 |
| 22 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Concertos (ECO/Tate) | 1987 | 78 |
| 23 | Myra Hess | Beethoven Sonatas Op.109 & 110 | 1956 | 78 |
| 24 | Constance Shacklock | Handel: Messiah (Scherchen/LSO; contralto soloist) | 1954 | 77 |
| 25 | Florence Hooton | Bax Cello Sonata / Legend-Sonata (Parry) | 1962 | 77 |
| 26 | Helen Watts | Bach Cantatas (Dart/Philomusica) | 1958 | 77 |
| 27 | Isobel Buchanan | Puccini: Suor Angelica (Bonynge/Sutherland/Nat. Phil.) | 1979 | 77 |
| 28 | Jacqueline du Pré | Brahms Cello Sonatas (Barenboim) | 1968 | 77 |
| 29 | Kathleen Ferrier | Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (Walter/VPO) | 1952 | 77 |
| 30 | Kathleen Long | Fauré: Piano Works | 1956 | 77 |
| 31 | Amaryllis Fleming | Brahms & Schubert: Cello Sonatas | 1977 | 76 |
| 32 | Isobel Baillie | Handel Messiah (Sargent/Huddersfield) | 1946 | 76 |
| 33 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Sonatas (complete) | 1985 | 76 |
| 34 | Angela Hewitt | Bach Goldberg Variations | 2015 | 75 |
| 35 | Grace Williams | Sea Sketches (ECO/Atherton) | 1970 | 75 |
| 36 | Margaret Price | Mozart Concert Arias K.418 etc (LPO/Lockhart) | 1975 | 75 |
| 37 | Jacqueline du Pré | Dvořák Cello Concerto (Barenboim/Chicago) | 1971 | 74 |
| 38 | Thea King | Stanford & Finzi: Clarinet Concertos (Philharmonia) | 1980 | 74 |
| 39 | April Cantelo | Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs | 1961 | 73 |
| 40 | Emma Kirkby | Mozart Exsultate jubilate (AAM/Hogwood) | 1984 | 73 |