| 1 | Angela Hewitt | Bach Goldberg Variations | 2015 | 99 |
| 2 | Emma Kirkby | Mozart Exsultate jubilate (AAM/Hogwood) | 1984 | 99 |
| 3 | Isata Kanneh-Mason | Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny | 2024 | 98 |
| 4 | Jacqueline du Pré | Elgar Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures (Barbirolli/LSO) | 1965 | 98 |
| 5 | Margaret Price | Mozart Concert Arias K.418 etc (LPO/Lockhart) | 1975 | 98 |
| 6 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Concertos (ECO/Tate) | 1987 | 98 |
| 7 | Emma Kirkby | Handel Italian Cantatas (AAM/Hogwood) | 1985 | 97 |
| 8 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Sonatas (complete) | 1985 | 97 |
| 9 | Emma Kirkby | Vivaldi Gloria RV589 (AAM/Preston) | 1978 | 95 |
| 10 | Janet Baker | Mahler Kindertotenlieder & Rückert-Lieder (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 95 |
| 11 | Tasmin Little | VW The Lark Ascending / Sym 6 (BBCSO/Davis) | 2022 | 95 |
| 12 | Imogen Cooper | Schubert / Beethoven recital | 1977 | 94 |
| 13 | Jacqueline du Pré | Dvořák Cello Concerto (Barenboim/Chicago) | 1971 | 94 |
| 14 | Kathleen Ferrier | Blow the Wind Southerly / British folk songs | 1952 | 94 |
| 15 | Felicity Lott | Songmakers' Almanac: Venezia (Graham Johnson) | 1984 | 93 |
| 16 | Jacqueline du Pré | Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Edinburgh live, Barenboim) | 1970 | 93 |
| 17 | Janet Baker | Berlioz Nuits d'été / Ravel Shéhérazade (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 93 |
| 18 | Janet Baker | Schubert Lieder (Moore/Parsons) | 1971 | 93 |
| 19 | Myra Hess | Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (her transcription) | 1957 | 93 |
| 20 | Emma Kirkby | Dowland Time Stands Still (Rooley) | 1986 | 92 |
| 21 | Grace Williams | Sea Sketches (ECO/Atherton) | 1970 | 92 |
| 22 | Helen Watts | Bach Cantatas (Dart/Philomusica) | 1958 | 92 |
| 23 | Ida Haendel | Brahms & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos | 1955 | 92 |
| 24 | Jacqueline du Pré | Brahms Cello Sonatas (Barenboim) | 1968 | 92 |
| 25 | Felicity Lott | Poulenc Mélodies (Graham Johnson) | 1985 | 91 |
| 26 | Norma Procter | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Horenstein/LSO; alto solo) | 1970 | 91 |
| 27 | Ida Haendel | Sibelius Violin Concerto (Berglund/Bournemouth) | 1975 | 90 |
| 28 | Iona Brown | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (ASMF) | 1980 | 90 |
| 29 | Isobel Buchanan | Puccini: Suor Angelica (Bonynge/Sutherland/Nat. Phil.) | 1979 | 90 |
| 30 | Moura Lympany | Rachmaninov 24 Preludes | 1952 | 90 |
| 31 | Thea King | Stanford & Finzi: Clarinet Concertos (Philharmonia) | 1980 | 90 |
| 32 | Amaryllis Fleming | Brahms & Schubert: Cello Sonatas | 1977 | 89 |
| 33 | Beatrice Harrison | Elgar: Cello Concerto (composer cond.) | 1928 | 89 |
| 34 | Eileen Joyce | Grieg: Piano Concerto | 1960 | 89 |
| 35 | Kathleen Ferrier | Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (Walter/VPO) | 1952 | 89 |
| 36 | Isobel Baillie | Handel Messiah (Sargent/Huddersfield) | 1946 | 88 |
| 37 | Kathleen Ferrier | Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Glyndebourne) | 1947 | 88 |
| 38 | Myra Hess | Beethoven Sonatas Op.109 & 110 | 1956 | 88 |
| 39 | Valda Aveling | Scarlatti: Sonatas | 1977 | 88 |
| 40 | April Cantelo | Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs | 1961 | 87 |