| 1 | Gwen Catley | Coloratura Arias From Dinorah, The Fair Maid Of Perth, Rigoletto, Romeo And Juliet, Die Fledermaus | 1956 | 77 |
| 2 | Emma Kirkby | Vivaldi Gloria RV589 (AAM/Preston) | 1978 | 72 |
| 3 | Emma Kirkby | Mozart Exsultate jubilate (AAM/Hogwood) | 1984 | 70 |
| 4 | Iona Brown | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (ASMF) | 1980 | 69 |
| 5 | Pauline Tinsley | Mozart: Idomeneo (C. Davis/BBC SO; Elettra) | 1968 | 69 |
| 6 | Valda Aveling | Scarlatti: Sonatas | 1977 | 66 |
| 7 | Eva Turner | Arias From Aida, Tosca, Turandot | 1965 | 65 |
| 8 | Margaret Price | Mozart Concert Arias K.418 etc (LPO/Lockhart) | 1975 | 65 |
| 9 | Ida Haendel | Brahms & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos | 1955 | 64 |
| 10 | Eileen Joyce | Grieg: Piano Concerto | 1960 | 62 |
| 11 | Heather Harper | Britten: Les Illuminations | 1971 | 62 |
| 12 | Jennifer Vyvyan | Britten: Spring Symphony | 1961 | 62 |
| 13 | Valerie Tryon | Liszt Recital | 1980 | 62 |
| 14 | Angela Hewitt | Bach Goldberg Variations | 2015 | 61 |
| 15 | April Cantelo | Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs | 1961 | 61 |
| 16 | Jess Gillam | Time (Nyman, Aurora/Collon) | 2020 | 61 |
| 17 | Isata Kanneh-Mason | Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny | 2024 | 60 |
| 18 | Emma Kirkby | Handel Italian Cantatas (AAM/Hogwood) | 1985 | 59 |
| 19 | Sarah Walker | Cabaret Songs - Britten, Gershwin, Dankworth & Others (Live At Dartington) | 1982 | 59 |
| 20 | Isobel Baillie | Handel Messiah (Sargent/Huddersfield) | 1946 | 58 |
| 21 | Phyllis Sellick | Three Hands on Two Pianos (w/ Cyril Smith) | 1965 | 57 |
| 22 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Concertos (ECO/Tate) | 1987 | 56 |
| 23 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Sonatas (complete) | 1985 | 56 |
| 24 | Anna Clyne | Mythologies (BBCSO; Alsop/Oramo/Litton) | 2020 | 55 |
| 25 | Ida Haendel | Sibelius Violin Concerto (Berglund/Bournemouth) | 1975 | 55 |
| 26 | Jacqueline du Pré | Dvořák Cello Concerto (Barenboim/Chicago) | 1971 | 55 |
| 27 | Moura Lympany | Rachmaninov 24 Preludes | 1952 | 55 |
| 28 | Thea Musgrave | Concerto for Orchestra / Clarinet & Horn Concertos (SNO) | 1977 | 55 |
| 29 | Thea King | Stanford & Finzi: Clarinet Concertos (Philharmonia) | 1980 | 54 |
| 30 | Grace Williams | Sea Sketches (ECO/Atherton) | 1970 | 52 |
| 31 | Iris Loveridge | Bax: Piano Sonatas | 1959 | 52 |
| 32 | Isobel Buchanan | Puccini: Suor Angelica (Bonynge/Sutherland/Nat. Phil.) | 1979 | 52 |
| 33 | Felicity Lott | Songmakers' Almanac: Venezia (Graham Johnson) | 1984 | 50 |
| 34 | Imogen Cooper | Schubert / Beethoven recital | 1977 | 49 |
| 35 | Jacqueline du Pré | Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Edinburgh live, Barenboim) | 1970 | 49 |
| 36 | Maggie Teyte | Songs By Debussy | 1962 | 49 |
| 37 | Sheila Armstrong | Lieder Recital | 1969 | 49 |
| 38 | Elsie Suddaby | Bach: St Matthew Passion (Jacques/Bach Choir, sung in English) | 1977 | 48 |
| 39 | Felicity Lott | Poulenc Mélodies (Graham Johnson) | 1985 | 48 |
| 40 | Jacqueline du Pré | Elgar Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures (Barbirolli/LSO) | 1965 | 48 |