Your choices are substandard. Solti's Ring is the greatest accomplishment whether you like it or not.

David Goyder, Southampton, UK

Get real people - just listen and enjoy. Its a bit of fun. As for the Solti Ring, it was last seen sitting on the Solti Bog.

John, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

I feel very sorry to watch the decadence of a once great magazine. This is just one silly gimmick more to give "voice" to its readers, while at the same time insulting their knowledge and taste with so poor a choice of CDs. Karajan has done better, and so has Hough and Harnoncourt.

Elysio Correia Ribeiro , Lisbon, Portugal

I possess or have heard all these nominations. None of them get into my top 20. How I agree with Catherine!

This idea is yet another example of the shallowing and trivialising effect of current media presentation ideas designed to promote particular interests. Crass. I vote against all of them!

David , Worcester Park, UK

I am disappointed not to find the Emerson Quartet's marvellous recording of the Shostakovitch quartets.

P. Dunn, Headington, Oxford, U.K.

Where, exactly, is the Solti Ring?

Hugh Christian-Cartr, Reading, Berkshire

Of this ridiculously limited choice, the Karajan - an interpretation of remarkably sustained intensity and nobility. His Bruckner 7, 8 and 9 would rank equally - and many others.

David Woodhead, Leatherhead, England

Why no Furtwängler? Before and better than von Karajan - and he didn't join.

Jeremy Broadribb, Horsham, UK

From this list it's gotta be Hough - amazing set of recordings

Joe Peters, Cleveland, USA

Gotta go with the Vaughn Williams.

Bruce L. Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA

I vote for Stephen Hough & Saint-Saens

J Derek Teare, Grantham, NH, USA

Paging Philips paging Philips: How about making the Hadyn available so we can hear it?

Malcolm, Chicago, IL,

As a classical musician I woudn't choose any of these! Haitink & Vienna Phil/LPO for Mahler 9, Carlos Kleiber& Deutche Rundfunk for Beethoven, Davis and LSO for Vaughan Williams(Beaux Arts maybe) and as for the Saint Saens...rather pointless! Where's Gould's Bach, Gergiev's Prokofiev? How silly.

Catherine, London,

i vote for stephen hough's saint-saens recording

neal gripp, Montreal , canada

I agree with David: this is fatuous and childish. And typical of the decline of Gramophone from a once great magazine to its present tawdry incarnation. My greatest CD of the last 30 years (itself a very silly idea: one greatest CD? daft) would be none of these.

Will Duffay, London,

What a silly enterprise. And why do the five chosen recordings have to come from Gramophone award winners? Strange that there is one choice per major label. But then as we all know this is another marketing gimmick to try to sell these records, disguised as a competition. Why is Naxos excluded?

David, Malvern, UK