| 1986 | Alcina | Handel; Arleen Augér, Della Jones, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Eiddwen Harrhy, Patrizia Kwella, Maldwyn Davies, John Tomlinson, The Opera Stage Chorus, City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | | 4 |
| 1987 | La forza del destino | Giuseppe Verdi; Rosalind Plowright, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Renato Bruson, Paata Burchuladze, Juan Pons, John Tomlinson, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli | 5 | 3 |
| 1988 | Julius Caesar | Handel; Dame Janet Baker, Valerie Masterson, John Tomlinson, English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras | | 2 |
| 1988 | Messiah | George Frideric Handel; Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Howard Crook, John Tomlinson, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock | 5 | 2 |
| 1989 | Le Roi de Lahore | Jules Massenet, Joan Sutherland, Luis Lima, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolaï Ghiaurov, James Morris, Huguette Tourangeau, John Tomlinson, Gareth Morrell & David Wilson‐Johnson | | 1 |
| 1989 | Punch and Judy | Harrison Birtwistle; Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, Stephen Roberts, David Wilson-Johnson, John Tomlinson, The London Sinfonietta, David Atherton | | 1 |
| 1990 | Così fan tutte | Mozart; Cuberli, Bartoli, Rodgers, Streit, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, RIAS Kammerchor, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim | | 1 |
| 1991 | Pulcinella / Octet / Renard / Ragtime | Stravinsky; Yvonne Kenny, John Aler, John Tomlinson, London Sinfonietta, Esa‐Pekka Salonen | | 1 |
| 1991 | Le nozze di Figaro | Mozart; Tomlinson, Rodgers, Cuberli, Schmidt, Bartoli, RIAS Kammerchor, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim | | 1 |
| 1991 | Parsifal | Richard Wagner; Meier, Jerusalem, Hölle, van Dam, von Kannen, Tomlinson, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker | | 1 |
| 1992 | Acis und Galatea | Handel/Mozart; Barbara Bonney, Jamie MacDougall, Markus Schäfer, John Tomlinson, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock | | 2 |
| 1992 | Der Waffenschmied | Albert Lortzing; John Tomlinson, Ruth Ziesak, Boje Skovhus, Kjell Magnus Sandve, Ursula Kunz, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Leopold Hager | | 2 |
| 1992 | Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner; Éva Marton, Siegfried Jerusalem, Thomas Hampson, Marjana Lipovšek, John Tomlinson, Theo Adam, Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | | 1 |
| 1995 | Hercules | Handel; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson, Jennifer Smith, Peter Savidge | | 2 |
| 1996 | Bluebeard’s Castle | Bartók; Anne Sofie von Otter, John Tomlinson, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink | | 1 |
| 1999 | Mary Stuart | Gaetano Donizetti, Sir Charles Mackerras; English National Opera Orchestra, Dame Janet Baker, Rosalind Plowright, David Rendall, Alan Opie, John Tomlinson | | 1 |
| 1999 | Der Rosenkavalier: Highlights | Strauss; Yvonne Kenny, John Tomlinson, Diana Montague, Rosemary Joshua, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry | | 1 |
| 2000 | Great Operatic Arias | John Tomlinson | | 1 |
| 2000 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten; Simon Keenlyside, Philip Langridge, John Tomlinson, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox | | 1 |
| 2000 | Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi; John Rawnsley, Helen Field, Arthur Davies, John Tomlinson, English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Mark Elder | | 1 |
| 2001 | Symphony no. 14 | Dmitri Shostakovich; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Joan Rodgers, John Tomlinson, Mark Wigglesworth | | 1 |
| 2006 | Bluebeard's Castle | Béla Bartók; Orchestra of Opera North, Richard Farnes, Sally Burgess, John Tomlinson | | 1 |
| 2009 | Don Carlos | Giuseppe Verdi; Alastair Miles, Julian Gavin, William Dazeley, Sir John Tomlinson, Janice Watson, Jane Dutton, Chorus & Orchestra of Opera North, Richard Farnes | | 1 |
