| 1 | Tasmin Little | VW The Lark Ascending / Sym 6 (BBCSO/Davis) | 2022 | 90 |
| 2 | Janet Baker | Berlioz Nuits d'été / Ravel Shéhérazade (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 88 |
| 3 | Jacqueline du Pré | Elgar Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures (Barbirolli/LSO) | 1965 | 86 |
| 4 | Janet Baker | Mahler Kindertotenlieder & Rückert-Lieder (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 86 |
| 5 | Norma Procter | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Horenstein/LSO; alto solo) | 1970 | 86 |
| 6 | Jacqueline du Pré | Dvořák Cello Concerto (Barenboim/Chicago) | 1971 | 83 |
| 7 | Angela Hewitt | Bach Goldberg Variations | 2015 | 82 |
| 8 | Anna Clyne | Mythologies (BBCSO; Alsop/Oramo/Litton) | 2020 | 82 |
| 9 | Emma Kirkby | Vivaldi Gloria RV589 (AAM/Preston) | 1978 | 81 |
| 10 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Concertos (ECO/Tate) | 1987 | 81 |
| 11 | Grace Williams | Sea Sketches (ECO/Atherton) | 1970 | 80 |
| 12 | Ida Haendel | Sibelius Violin Concerto (Berglund/Bournemouth) | 1975 | 80 |
| 13 | Emma Kirkby | Handel Italian Cantatas (AAM/Hogwood) | 1985 | 79 |
| 14 | Emma Kirkby | Mozart Exsultate jubilate (AAM/Hogwood) | 1984 | 79 |
| 15 | Heather Harper | Britten: Les Illuminations | 1971 | 79 |
| 16 | Jennifer Vyvyan | Britten: Spring Symphony | 1961 | 79 |
| 17 | Isobel Buchanan | Puccini: Suor Angelica (Bonynge/Sutherland/Nat. Phil.) | 1979 | 78 |
| 18 | Jacqueline du Pré | Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Edinburgh live, Barenboim) | 1970 | 78 |
| 19 | Isata Kanneh-Mason | Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny | 2024 | 77 |
| 20 | Margaret Price | Mozart Concert Arias K.418 etc (LPO/Lockhart) | 1975 | 77 |
| 21 | Ida Haendel | Brahms & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos | 1955 | 76 |
| 22 | Emma Kirkby | Dowland Time Stands Still (Rooley) | 1986 | 75 |
| 23 | Felicity Lott | Poulenc Mélodies (Graham Johnson) | 1985 | 74 |
| 24 | Felicity Lott | Songmakers' Almanac: Venezia (Graham Johnson) | 1984 | 74 |
| 25 | Helen Watts | Bach Cantatas (Dart/Philomusica) | 1958 | 74 |
| 26 | Jacqueline du Pré | Brahms Cello Sonatas (Barenboim) | 1968 | 74 |
| 27 | Jess Gillam | Time (Nyman, Aurora/Collon) | 2020 | 74 |
| 28 | Thea King | Stanford & Finzi: Clarinet Concertos (Philharmonia) | 1980 | 74 |
| 29 | Iona Brown | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (ASMF) | 1980 | 73 |
| 30 | Thea Musgrave | Concerto for Orchestra / Clarinet & Horn Concertos (SNO) | 1977 | 73 |
| 31 | April Cantelo | Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs | 1961 | 72 |
| 32 | Eileen Joyce | Grieg: Piano Concerto | 1960 | 72 |
| 33 | Florence Hooton | Bax Cello Sonata / Legend-Sonata (Parry) | 1962 | 72 |
| 34 | Imogen Cooper | Schubert / Beethoven recital | 1977 | 72 |
| 35 | Janet Baker | Schubert Lieder (Moore/Parsons) | 1971 | 72 |
| 36 | Marjorie Thomas | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Sargent/Liverpool Phil; the Angel) | 1955 | 72 |
| 37 | Mitsuko Uchida | Mozart Piano Sonatas (complete) | 1985 | 72 |
| 38 | Iris Loveridge | Bax: Piano Sonatas | 1959 | 71 |
| 39 | Amaryllis Fleming | Brahms & Schubert: Cello Sonatas | 1977 | 70 |
| 40 | Kathleen Ferrier | Blow the Wind Southerly / British folk songs | 1952 | 69 |