Category | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 |
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Chamber | | | | Maurizio Pollini - Brahms: Piano Quintet; Quartetto Italiano - solo |
Choral | Philip Ledger conducting Kings College Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar: Coronation Ode; Parry: I was glad | | Seiji Ozawa conducting Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder | John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir - Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso |
Concerto | Neville Marriner conducting Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22; Alfred Brendel - solo | Simon Rattle conducting London Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1; Andrei Gavrilov - solo | Claudio Abbado conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bartók: Piano Concerto 1 & 2; Maurizio Pollini - solo | Lorin Maazel conducting French National Orchestra - Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Jean-Philippe Collard - solo |
Contemporary | | Pierre Boulez conducting Juilliard String Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra - Webern: Complete Works | | David Atherton conducting London Sinfonietta -Birtwistle: Punch and Judy |
Early Music | Julian Bream - Dowland: Lute Works | John Eliot Gardiner conducting English Baroque Soloists - Handel: Acis and Galatea | Christopher Hogwood conducting Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart: Symphonies Vol. 3 | Trevor Pinnock conducting The English Concert - C. P. E. Bach: Sinfonias |
Engineering | | | André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra - Debussy: Images pour orchestre, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | Bernard Haitink conducting Concertgebouw Orchestra – Debussy: Nocturnes, Jeux |
Historical | The Record of Singing | Charles Bruck conducting Netherlands Opera Chorus and Orchestra - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice | | |
Historical Vocal | | | | Gramophone Co. Recordings - Lucia |
Historical Non-Vocal | | | | Joseph Szigeti, Benny Goodman - Bartók: Contrasts |
Instrumental | Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 27–32 | Alfred Brendel - Liszt: Piano Works | Peter Hurford – Bach: Organ Works Vol. 3 | Krystian Zimerman – Brahms: Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 |
Operatic | Charles Mackerras conducting Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic - Janáček: Káťa Kabanová | Zubin Mehta conducting Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra - Puccini: La fanciulla del West | Pierre Boulez conducting Paris Opera Orchestra – Berg: Lulu | Charles Mackerras conducting Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic – Janáček: From the House of the Dead |
Orchestral | | | André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra - Debussy: Images pour orchestre, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | Bernard Haitink conducting Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Debussy: Nocturnes |
Solo Vocal | Maxim Shostakovich conducting Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Suite, Six Songs to Lyrics, etc. | André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra - Chausson: Poème; Duparc: Melodies; Janet Baker - solo | Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Grechaninov, etc., Five Children's Songs | Graham Trew, Roger Vignoles – A Shropshire Lad | |
Category | 1981 | 1982/1983 | 1984 | 1985 |
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Chamber | | Borodin Quartet - Borodin: String Quartets 1 & 2 | | Alban Berg Quartett - Beethoven: Late String Quartets |
Choral | Eric Fenby conducting Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Delius: Fenby Legacy | | | John Rutter conducting Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Caroline Ashton, Stephen Varcoe, Simon Standage, John Scott - Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine |
Concerto | Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Philharmonia - Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D minor; Perlman - solo | Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra - Tippett: Triple Concerto | Murray Perahia conducting English Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Piano Concertos 15, 16 | Vernon Handley conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nigel Kennedy - Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor |
Contemporary | David Atherton conducting London Sinfonietta - Tippett: King Priam | Pierre Boulez conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra, Phyllis Bryn-Julson - Boulez: Pli selon pli | | Pierre Boulez conducting Ensemble InterContemporain,, Márta Fábián, John Alldis Choir - György Kurtág: , Dalos: Opus 17, Birtwistle: ...agm... |
Early Baroque | | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants Vocal - Charpentier: Actéon | | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants Vocal, Jill Feldman, Jacques Bona, Sophie Boulin, Phillipe Cantor, Agnès Mellon, Gilles Ragon - Charpentier: Médée |
Early Medieval | | Christopher Page conducting Gothic Voices - Hildegard of Bingen: A Feather on the Breath of God | | |
Early Medieval and Renaissance | | | Paul Hillier conducting Hilliard Ensemble - Dunstaple: Motets | David Hill conducting Westminster Cathedral Choir - Tomás Luis de Victoria: O quam gloriosum, Ave maris stella |
Early Music | Cologne Music Antiqua - German Chamber Music | | | |
Engineering | Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra - Massenet: Werther | | | |
Engineering and Production | | | Bryden Thomson conducting Ulster Orchestra - Bax: Symphony No. 4, Tintagel | Charles Dutoit conducting Montreal Symphony Orchestra - Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Le tombeau de Couperin, Valses nobles et sentimentales |
Historical Non-Vocal | Busch Quartet, Rudolf Serkin, Reginald Kell, Aubrey Brain - Brahms: Chamber Works | Bartok At the Piano Vol. 1
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Historical Vocal | Hugo Wolf Society Lieder | Schubert - Historical Recordings of Lieder | | Claudia Muzio The Columbia Recordings 1934–1935. Italian Opera Arias, Italian, French and German Songs
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Instrumental | Alfred Brendel - Liszt, Piano Works | | | Jorge Bolet - Liszt: Années de pèlerinage |
Operatic | Herbert von Karajan conducting Deutsche Opera, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Wagner: Parsifal | Charles Mackerras conducting Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic - Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen | Charles Mackerras conducting Vienna Philharmonic, Elisabeth Söderström, Wiesław Ochman, Peter Dvorský, Eva Randová, Lucia Popp - Janáček: Jenůfa | Bernard Haitink conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Allen, Carol Vaness, Maria Ewing, Elizabeth Gale, Keith Lewis, Richard Van Allan, Glyndebourne Chorus - Mozart: Don Giovanni |
Orchestral | | Herbert von Karajan conducting Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss: Metamorphosen | | Neeme Järvi conducting Scottish National Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Waltz Suite |
Solo Vocal | | | Kurt Masur conducting Gewandhaus Orchestra, Jessye Norman - Strauss: Four Last Songs | Tom Krause, Irwin Gage, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Sibelius: Complete Songs | |
Category | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
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Chamber | Fauré | | Shlomo Mintz, Paul Ostrovsky - Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas in F minor and F major | Emerson String Quartet - Bartók: String Quartets 1–6 | Kyung Wha Chung, Krystian Zimerman - Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor |
Choral | Charles Mackerras conducting Czech Philharmonic, Elisabeth Söderström, Drahomíra Drobková, František Livora, Richard Novák - Janáček: Glagolitic Mass | Christopher Hogwood conducting Academy of Ancient Music, Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aled Jones, Anthony Johnson, David Thomas - Handel: Athalia | | John Eliot Gardiner conducting English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Lynne Dawson, Ruth Holton, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Scott Ross, Paul Nicholson - Handel: Jephtha | Armin Jordan conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Edith Wiens, Anne Gjevang, Sylvia Herman, Hans-Peter Scheidegger - Schumann - Das Paradies und die Peri |
Concerto | | | | | Neemi Järvi conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lydia Mordkovitch - Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 |
Contemporary | | Andrew Davis conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Robert Tear, John Cheek - Tippett: The Mask of Time | Elgar Howarth conducting London Sinfonietta - Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, Silbury Air, Secret Theatre | | George Benjamin conducting London Sinfonietta, Penelope Walmsley-Clark, Sebastian Bell - Benjamin: Antara, Boulez: Dérive 1, Memoriale, Harvey: Song Offerings |
Early Baroque Music | Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) - Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge | | John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Donna Brown, Rachel Yakar, Howard Cook - Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus | Trevor Pinnock conducting The English Concert - Corelli: Concerti grossi | |
Early Medieval and Renaissance Music: Esther Lamandier - Chansons de toile au temps du Roman de la Rose | | Christopher Page conducting Gothic Voices - The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter | Gothic Voices - A Song for Francesca | |
Early Music | | Peter Phillips conducting The Tallis Scholars - Prez: Missa Pange lingua, Missa La sol fa re mi | | | Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players - Gabrieli: Venetian Coronation 1595 |
Engineering | | | | | Oliver Knussen conducting the London Sinfonietta - Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas |
Engineering and Production | Geoffrey Simon conducting Philharmonia Orchestra - Respighi: Belkis, Regina di Saba, Metamorphoseon | Charles Dutoit conducting Montréal Symphony Orchestra - Holst: The Planets | | Neeme Järvi conducting Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Tubin: Symphony 3 & 8 | |
Non-Vocal Historic | Beethoven | Busch Quartet, Rudolf Serkin - Schubert: String Quartets, Piano Trio, Fantasia | Issay Dobrowen, Walter Süsskind conducting Philharmonia Orchestra, Ginette Neveu - Brahms: Violin Concerto in D minor, 5 Songs, Sibelius: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D, Op. 77 | | Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Delius: , Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), Irmelin prelude, Over the hills and far away |
Vocal Historic | The Record of Singing, Vol. 3 | Tito Schipa - The Art of Tito Schipa | | The Record of Singing, Vol. 4 | Elie Cohen conducting the Opéra-Comique Orchestra and Chorus, Ninon Vallin, Georges Thill, Marcel Roque, Germaine Féraldy, Armand Narçon - Massenet: Werther |
Instrumental | | | Pascal Rogé - Poulenc: Piano Works | Mitsuko Uchida - Mozart: Piano Sonatas 1-18 | Zoltán Kocsis - Debussy: Piano Works |
Musical Theatre | | | | John McGlinn - Kern: Show Boat | John McGlinn - Cole Porter: Anything Goes |
Operatic | Claudio Abbado conducting Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Lella Cuberli, Cecilia Gasdia, Francisco Araiza, Eduardo Gimenez, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi, Samuel Ramey, Enzo Dara - Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims | Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting Philharmonia Orchestra, Rosalind Plowright, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Renato Bruson, Paata Burchuladze, Juan Pons, John Tomlinson, Ambrosian Singers - Verdi: La forza del destino | Philip Brunelle conducting Plymouth Music Series Chorus and Orchestra - Britten: Paul Bunyan | Simon Rattle conducting Glyndebourne - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess | Kent Nagano conducting the Opéra National de Lyon Orchestra and Chorus - Prokofiev: L'Amour des trois oranges |
Orchestral | Bernard Haitink conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sheila Armstrong - Williams: Sinfonia Antarctica | | | Claudio Abbado conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Scubert: Symphonies | Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers - Williams: A Sea Symphony |
Period Performance | | | Trevor Pinnock conducting Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Felicity Lott, Carolyn Watkinson, Maldwyn Davies, David Wilson-Johnson - Haydn: Nelson Mass, Te Deum in C major | | |
Remastered CD | Benjamin Britten conducting Royal Opera House Chorus & Orchestra, Peter Pears, Claire Watson, James Pease - Britten: Peter Grimes | Thomas Beecham conducting Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Beecham Conducts Delius: The Complete Stereo Recordings | Herbert von Karajan conducting Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Teresa Stich-Randall, Otto Edelmann, Eberhard Waechter - Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier | Lorin Maazel conducting the Orchestre National de France - Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges | |
Solo Vocal | Peter Schreier with Sviatoslav Richter - Schubert: Winterreise | Brigitte Fassbaender with Irwin Gage - Liszt: Lieder, Strauss: Lieder | Olaf Bär with Geoffrey Parsons - Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin | Janet Baker with Graham Johnson - Schubert: Lieder, vol. 1 | Peter Schreier with András Schiff - Schubert: Schwanengesang, Heine: Lieder, Seidl: Lieder |
Special Achievement | | | | | Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien; Gustav Leonhardt conducting the Leonhardt-Consort - Complete Sacred Cantatas Vol. 1-45 (Bach) | |
Category | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
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Artist of the Year | | | | | Pierre Boulez |
Baroque Non-Vocal | Davitt Moroney, John Holloway - Biber: Mystery Sonatas | Christophe Rousset - Rameau: Harpsichord Works | Reinhard Goebel conducting Musica Antiqua Köln - Heinichen: Dresden Concertos | Pierre Hantaï - Bach: Goldberg Variations | Harmonia Mundi - Biber: Violin Sonatas; Romanesca |
Baroque Vocal | Nicholas McGegan conducting the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Lorraine Hunt, Drew Minter, Jill Feldman, William Parker, Jeffrey Thomas, David Thomas - Handel: Susanna | René Jacobs conducting the Concerto Köln, Jennifer Larmore, Barbara Schlick, Bernarda Fink, Marianne Rørholm, Derek Lee Ragin - Handel: Giulio Cesare | Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre, Catherine Bott, Christine Batty, Gérard Lesne, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippe Huttenlocher - Stradella: San Giovanni Battista | Concerto Italiano - Fourth Book of the Montev | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants - Rameau: Grant Motets |
Best-Selling Disc | | | | | Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti - The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 |
Best-Selling Record | | Essential Opera | | Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta conducting the Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey Chorus - Gregorian chant |
Chamber | | Carmine Quartet - Szymanowski: String Quartet 1 & 2, Webern: Langsamer Satz | | Borodin Quartet, Yuri Yurov, Mikhail Milman - Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1, 2, & 3, Souvenir de Florence | Domus - Fauré: Piano Quintets |
Choral | | Richard Hickox conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, St Paul's Cathedral Choristers, Heather Harper, Philip Langridge, Martyn Hill, John Shirley-Quirk - Britten: War Requiem | Kurt Masur conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Rundfunkchor, Alistair Miles, Helen Donath, Jard van Nes, Donald George - Mendelssohn: Elias | Richard Hickox conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, Sally Burgess - Delius: Sea Drift, Songs of Farewell | |
Choral and engineering | | | | | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Symphony No. 3 |
Concerto | | | | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kyung Wha Chung - Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Rhapsodies 1 & 2 | Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Vengerov - Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, Shostakovich: Vio |
Contemporary | Richard Bernas conducting the Music Project London, Adrian Clarke, John Hall, Patricia Rozario, Christopher Robson, Paul Wilson, Richard Morris, Paul Harrhy, Mary Thomas - John Casken: Golem | | Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Koch: Tryst | Oliver Knussen conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Holloway: Second Concerto for Orchestra | Pierre Boulez conducting Ensemble intercontemporain, Saschko Gawriloff, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Ligeti: Concertos for Piano, Violin, and Cello |
Early Opera Music | | | | | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants - Purcell: King Arthur |
Early Music | Peter Phillips conducting The Tallis Scholars - Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria, Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas | Harry Christophers conducting The Sixteen - "The Rose and The Ostrich Feather", Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 1 | Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players - Venetian Vespers | Peter Phillips conducting The Tallis Scholars - Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem | Andrew Carwood conducting The Cardinall's Musick - Fayrfax: Missa O quam glorifica, etc. |
Engineering | Nicholas Braithwaite conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Wordsworth: Symphony 2 & 3 | Richard Hickox conducting London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, St Paul's Cathedral Choristers, Heather Harper, Philip Langridge, Martyn Hill, John Shirley-Quirk - Britten: War Requiem, Sinfonia da Requiem, Ballad of Heroes | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Nathalie Stutzmann, Ann Murray, Leslie Caron - Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien | | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Szymanowski - Stabat Mater, Symphony No. 3 |
Historical Non-Vocal | Anton Webern conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra, Galimir Quartet, Louis Krasner - Berg: Violin Concerto, Lyric Suite | Edward Elgar conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - The Elgar Edition, Vol. 1 | Sergei Rachmaninov - The Complete Recordings | | Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Chorus - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 |
Historical Vocal | Gérard Souzay with Jacqueline Bonneau - Fauré, Chausson, Airs Français | Covent Garden on Record: A History | Singers of Imperial Russia, 1-4 | English Opera Group, BBC Theatre Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Nancy Evans, Sophie Wyss, Benjamin Britten - _Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Folksong Arrangements | Ernest Bour conducting the French Radio National Orchestra and Chorus - Ravel: L'enfant et les sortileges |
Instrumental | | | Shura Cherkassky - 80th Birthday Recital | Krystian Zimerman - Debussy: Préludes | Murray Perahia - Chopin: Four Ballades, Mazurkas, Études, Nocturnes |
Lifetime Achievement | | | | | Michael Tippett |
Music Theatre | Original London Cast - Sondheim: Into the Woods | Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Jerry Hadley, June Anderson - Bernstein: Candide | Eric Stern, Lara Teeter, Ann Morrison - Gershwin: Lady, Be Good! | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Bernstein: On the Town | I wish it so – The Songs of Vernon Duke; Dawn Upshaw (soprano); orchestra / Eric Stern conducting Dawn Upshaw, orchestra - Duke: The Songs of Vernon Duke ("I Wish It So") |
Opera | John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Hillevi Martinpelto, Sylvia McNair, Nigel Robson, Glenn Winslade - Mozart: Idomeneo | Kent Nagano conducting the Opéra National de Lyon. Catherine Dubosc, Rita Gorr, Rachel Yakar, Brigitte Fournier, Martine Dupuy, José van Dam, Jean-Luc Viala - Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites | Charles Mackerras conducting the Welsh National Opera, Josephine Barstow, Phillip Langridge - Britten: Gloriana | Richard Hickox conducting Chorus & Orchestra of Opera North - Walton: Troilus and Cressida |
Orchestral | | Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Hildegard Behrens, Plácido Domingo, Reinhild Runkel, José van Dam, Júlia Várady, Sumi Jo - Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten | | David Zinman conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - Koechlin: The Jungle Book, Symphonic Poems | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Phyllis Bryn-Julson - Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Erwartung |
Record of the Year | John Eliot Gardiner conducting English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles - Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Choral) | Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (Orchestral) | Anne Sofie von Otter with Bengt Forsberg - Grieg songs (Solo Vocal) | Krystian Zimerman - Debussy: Préludes (Instrumental) | Mstislav Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Vengerov - Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, Shostakovich: Vio (Concerto) |
Solo Vocal | Peter Schreier with András Schiff - Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin | Brigitte Fassbaender with Aribert Reimann - Schubert: Lieder | Anne Sofie von Otter with Bengt Forsberg - Grieg songs | Cheryl Studer with Thomas Hampson & John Browning - Barber: Complete Songs | Bryn Terfel with Malcolm Martineau - Schubert: Lieder |
Special Achievement | The Complete Mozart Edition | | | Sviatoslav Richter - Richter: The Authorized Edition | John Mauceri conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Berlin Radio Chorus - Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane |
Video | | | Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the Bavarian State Opera (1989) - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (1992) - Bernstein: On the Town | The Art of Conducting – Great Conductors of the Past |
Young Artist of the Year | | | | | | |
Category | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
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20th-Century Chamber | | | | Arditti Quartet - Carter: String Quartets | |
20th-Century Concerto | | | | Pierre Boulez, Krystian Zimerman - Ravel: Piano Concertos |
20th-Century Instrumental | | | | Various artists - Berio: Sequenza | |
20th-Century Opera | | | | Ulf Schirmer - Nielsen: Maskarade | |
20th-Century Orchestral | | | | Riccardo Chailly - Varèse: Complete Orchestral Works | |
20th-Century Vocal | | | | Matthias Goerne with Eric Schneider - Eisler: Hollywood Songbook | |
Artist of the Year | | | | | Antonio Pappano |
Baroque Instrumental | | | | Carole Cerasi - Jacquet de la Guerre: Premier livre | Richard Egarr, Andrew Manze - Pandolfi: Violin Sonatas Opuses 3 & 4 |
Baroque Non-Vocal | Giovanni Antonini conducting Il Giardino Armonico, Christophe Coin - Vivaldi: Il Proteo, Double, Triple Concertos | Phantasm, Susanna Pell, Joanna Levine - Purcell: Fantazias | Christophe Rousset conducting Les Talens Lyriques - Rameau: Overtures | | |
Baroque Vocal | Chiara Banchini conducting the Harmonia Mundi, Ensemble 415, Andreas Scholl - Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Cessate, omai cessate | René Jacobs conducting Harmonia Mundi, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo | | René Jacobs conducting Harmonia Mundi - Scarlatti: Il primo omicidio | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants - Handel: Acis and Galatea |
Best-Selling Disc | Crouch End Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lesley Garrett - Garrett: Soprano in Red | Edward Higginbottom conducting the Choir of New College Oxford - Agnus Dei | James Horner - | | |
Britannia Music Members' Award | | Paul Daniel conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North, Bryn Terfel - Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel sings Richard Rodgers (1996) | | | |
Chamber | Quatuor Mosaïques - String Quartets, Op. 33, 2, 3, & 5 | Pascal Rogé, Truls Mørk, Chantal Juillet - Ravel: Violin Sonatas, etc. | Takács Quartet - Bartók: String Quartets | Florestan Trio - Schumann: Piano Trios | Emerson Quartet - Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets, nos. 1-15 |
Choral | John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Country Gardiner Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir - Grainger: Songs and Dancing Ballads | John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Haydn: Die Schöpfung | James O'Donnell conducting the Westminster Cathedral Choir, Frank Martin, Ildebrando Pizzetti - Haydn: Die Schöpfung | | Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, Lynne Dawson, Ann Murray, Bonaventura Bottone, Neil Mackenzie, Jason Howard - Boulanger: Faust et Hélène, Psaume 24, D'un soir triste, D'un matin de printemps, Psaume 130, Du fond de l'abîme |
Classic FM People's Choice Award | | | | | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Angela Gheorghiu - Verdi: Heroines |
Concerto | Lawrence Foster conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough - Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 1, Scharwenka: Piano Concerto 4 in F minor, Op. 82 | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Zehetmair, Silke Avenhaus - Szymanowski: Violin Concertos, etc. | | Charles Dutoit, Martha Argerich - Chopin: Piano Concertos | Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra - Haydn: Piano Concertos 3, 4, & 11 |
Contemporary | Elgar Howarth conducting The Royal Opera - Birtwistle: Gawain | | Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers - The Mask of Orpheus | Oliver Knussen - Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream | Elliott Carter - Carter: , Clarinet Concerto |
Early Music | Orlando Consort - Dunstaple: Sacred Choral Works | | Dominique Visse, Ensemble Clément Janequin - Canciones y Ensaladas | Andrew Kirkman conducting the Binchois Consort - Dufay: Missa Sancti Iacobi | Davitt Moroney - Byrd: Complete Keyboard Works |
Early Opera | Nicholas McGegan conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester, Wilhelmshaven Vocal Ensemble - Handel: Ariodante | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie | William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants - Rameau, Les fêtes d'Hébé | | |
Editor's Choice | | Monica Huggett - Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin | Thomas Adès conducting the Endellion Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Markus Stenz, Stephen Cleobury - Adès: Arcadiana | Naxos's British music series | |
Engineering | Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No 5, En saga | Richard Hickox conducting the London Symphony Chorus, Orchestra - Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims | | | |
Film Music | | Joel McNeely conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Herrmann: Vertigo | Kenneth Alwyn conducting the Royal Ballet Sinfonia - Alwyn: The Ladykillers: Music from Those Glorious Ealing Films | | |
Historic Non-Vocal | Walter Gieseking - Debussy: Complete Piano Works | | | | |
Historic Vocal | Lucrezia Bori - Bori: Opera and Operetta Arias (restored by Ward Marston) | | | | |
Instrumental | Mikhail Pletnev - Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas | Murray Perahia - Handel, Scarlatti: Keyboard Suites and Sonatas | | Arcadi Volodos - Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall | Marc-André Hamelin - Godowsky: The Complete Studies on Chopin's Études |
Lifetime Achievement | | | Menahem Pressler | | Carlo Bergonzi |
Music Theatre | Eric Stern conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's - Gershwin: Oh, Kay! | John Owen Edwards conducting the National Symphony Orchestra - Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady | Rob Fisher, Broadway cast - Kander & Ebb: Chicago | | |
Opera | Valery Gergiev conducting the Kirov Opera - Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel | Antonio Pappano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices - Puccini: La rondine | Riccardo Chailly conducting the La Scala Chorus and Orchestra - Rossini: Il turco in Italia | Charles Mackerras - Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka | Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes - Szymanowski: King Roger, Symphony No. 4 |
Orchestral | Franz Welser-Möst conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Schmidt: Symphony No. 4, Variations on a Hussar Song | | Iván Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus - Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin | | Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major |
Recital | | | | James Levine, Renée Fleming - Fleming: "I Want Magic" | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Angela Gheorghiu - Verdi: Verdi: Heroines |
Record of the Year | Lawrence Foster conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough - Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 1, Scharwenka: Piano Concerto 4 in F minor, Op. 82 (Concerto) | Antonio Pappano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices - Puccini: La rondine (Opera) | James O'Donnell conducting the Westminster Cathedral Choir, Frank Martin, Ildebrando Pizzetti - Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Choral) | Charles Mackerras - Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka (Opera) | Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major (Orchestral) |
Retailer of the Year | | | | | HMV and Bath Compact Disc |
Solo Vocal | Ian Bostridge with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Graham Johnson - Schubert: Lieder, Vol. 25, Die schöne Müllerin | Christine Schäfer with Graham Johnson - Schumann: Complete Lieder, Vol. 1 | | Stephan Genz with Roger Vignoles - Beethoven: Lieder | |
Special Achievement | | | | Philips Records's Great Pianists of the 20th Century | Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus -Wagner: Götterdämmerung |
Video | Yehudi Menuhin – The Violin of the Century | Andrew Davis conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Berg: Lulu | | | |
Vocal | | | | | Antonio Pappano, Barbara Bonney - Diamonds in the Snow |
Young Artist of the Year | | | | | | |
Category | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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Artist of the Year | | | | | Michael Tilson Thomas |
Baroque Instrumental | | Monica Huggett, Thomas Guthrie - Biber: Violin Sonatas 2, 3, 5 & 7, Nisi Dominus, Passacaglia, Sonnerie | | | |
Baroque Vocal | Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Boys' Choir, Christoph Prégardien, Matthias Goerne, Christine Schäfer, Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Elisabeth von Magnus, Michael Schade, Markus Schäfer, Dietrich Henschel, Oliver Widmer - Bach St Matthew Passion, Evangelist | Konrad Junghänel conducting the Concerto Palatino, Cantus Cölln - Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale | Emmanuelle Haïm conducting the Le Concert d'Astrée - Handel: Arcadian Duets | Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting the Concerto Italiano - Vivaldi: Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine | John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra - Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 |
Chamber | Phantasy Quintet, Maggini Quartet, Garfield Jackson - Williams: String Quartets 1 & 2 | | Zehetmair Quartet - Schumann: String Quartets 1 & 3 | | Takács Quartet - Beethoven: Late string quartets |
Choral | Stephen Layton conducting Polyphony - Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana, "Chorale after an Old French Carol", A Hymn to the Virgin, Sacred and Profane | Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ernst Senff Choir, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Chorus, Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Moser, Philip Langridge, Thomas Quasthoff - Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder | Richard Hickox conducting the Collegium Musicum 90 - Hummel: Masses | | René Jacobs conducting the RIAS Kammerchor, Freiburger Barockorchester - Haydn: The Seasons |
Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award | | | | | Plácido Domingo |
Classic FM People's Choice Award | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Angela Gheorghiu - Verdi: Verdi: Heroines | | | | |
Concerto | | Sakari Oramo conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough - Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra | Rachel Podger conducting the Arte dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: La stravaganza | | Krystian Zimerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud, Boulez - Bartók Piano Concertos 1–3 |
Contemporary | Pierre Boulez conducting the Ensemble intercontemporain - Boulez: Anthèmes II, Messagesquisse, Sur incises | Reinbert de Leeuw conducting the Arditti Quartet, Nash Ensemble, Claron McFadden - Birtwistle: Pulse Shadows | Ensemble Modern - Reich: City Life | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Adès: | Ensemble Modern - Birtwistle: Earth Dances |
Debut Recording | | Jonathan Lemalu with Roger Vignoles - Songs by Brahms, Fauré, Finzi, etc. | | | |
DVD | Sylvain Cambreling conducting Staatskapelle Dresden, Vesselina Kasarova, Willard White - Berlioz: La damnation de Faust | Kent Nagano conducting Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Maîtrise de Paris Children's Choir, Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Willard White; directed by Peter Sellars (stage), Peter Maniura (video) - John Adams: El Niño | | | John Eliot Gardiner directing the Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - Berlioz: Les Troyens |
Early Music | Claudio Cavina conducting La Venexiana - Gesualdo: Madrigali libro quarto | Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting Concerto Italiano - Marenzio: Madrigals | Orlando Consort - The Call of the Phoenix: Rare 15th-century English Church Music | | Peter Phillips conducting The Tallis Scholars - John Browne: Music from the Eton Choir Book |
Editor's Choice | Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music, Cecilia Bartoli, David Daniels - Handel: Rinaldo | Marek Janowski conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Soile Isokoski - Strauss: Four Last Songs | | | Andrew Litton conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
Historic Archive | | Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Ferenc Fricsay | | | |
Historic Reissue | | | | | |
Instrumental | Murray Perahia - Bach: Goldberg Variations | Leif Ove Andsnes - Grieg: Lyric Pieces (excerpts) | | | |
Label of the Year | | | | | Naxos |
Lifetime Achievement | | | | | Marilyn Horne |
Opera | Antonio Pappano conducting the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna - Massenet: Manon | Ben Heppner, Michelle DeYoung, Petra Lang, Sara Mingardo, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Kenneth Tarver, Toby Spence, Orlin Anastassov, Tigran Martirossian, Isabelle Cals, Alan Ewing, Yang Guang, Andrew Greenan, Roderick Earle, Bülent Bezdüz, London Symphony Orchestra - Berlioz: Les Troyens | Daniel Harding conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Ian Bostridge - Britten: The Turn of the Screw | René Jacobs conducting the Concerto Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro | |
Orchestral | Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Williams: A London Symphony, Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow | | Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Rondo of the Waves | | Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien - Haydn: Paris symphonies |
Recital | Bertrand de Billy conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Roberto Alagna - French Arias | Bernhard Forck conducting the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Cecilia Bartoli - Gluck: Italian Arias | | | Evelino Pidò conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Rolando Villazón - Arias by Gounod and Massenet |
Record of the Year | Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Williams: A London Symphony, Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow (Orchestral) | Sakari Oramo conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough - Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto) | Zehetmair Quartet - Schumann: String Quartets 1 & 3 (Chamber Music) | René Jacobs conducting the Concerto Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Opera) | John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra - Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 (Baroque Vocal) |
Retailer of the Year | Bath Compact Discs | | | | |
Special Achievement Award | | | | | The Lindsays |
Vocal | Magdalena Kožená with Graham Johnson - Love Songs | Anne Sofie von Otter with Bengt Forsberg, Nils-Erik Sparf, Peter Jablonski - Chaminade: "Mots d'amour" | | | | |
Category | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010[13] |
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Artist of the Year | | | | | Joyce DiDonato |
Baroque Instrumental | | | Trevor Pinnock conducting the European Brandenburg Ensemble - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos | Fretwork - Purcell - Complete Fantazias | La Serenissima - Vivaldi: "The French Connection |
Baroque Vocal | | John Butt conducting the Dunedin Consort & Players - Handel: Messiah | Claudio Cavina conducting La Venexiana - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo | | |
Chamber | Mikhail Pletnev, Lynn Harrell, Nobuko Imai, Ilya Gringolts, Vadim Repin - Taneyev: Chamber Music | | | | Isabelle Faust - Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violin |
Choral | | Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Choir, Dorothea Röschmann, Thomas Quasthoff - Brahms: A German Requiem | Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort & Players - Haydn: The Creation | | |
Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation | | | | The Royal Opera, The Sun | |
Classic FM Listeners' Choice | | | | | |
Concerto | | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Nelson Freire - Brahms: Piano Concertos | | | Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra, Thomas Zehetmair - Elgar: Violin Concerto |
Contemporary | | Oliver Knussen conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy | Ilan Volkov conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Anu Komsi - Harvey: Body Mandala | NMC Recordings - The NMC Songbook | Thomas Adès conducting The Royal Opera Orchestra and Chorus - Adès: The Tempest |
DVD | Bernstein - Reflections (film by Peter Rosen) | Julian Bream My Life in Music
| Antonio Pappano conducting The Royal Opera - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro | Michael Schønwandt conducting The Royal Danish Opera - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen | |
Early Music | Andrew Carwood conducting The Cardinall's Musick - Tallis: Gaude gloriosa | Andrew Carwood conducting The Cardinall's Musick - Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis | Edward Higginbottom conducting the Choir of New College Oxford - Ludford: Missa Benedicta | Stile Antico - Song of Songs | Andrew Carwood conducting The Cardinall's Musick - Byrd: Infelix ego |
Editor's Choice | Richard Hickox conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gerald Finley - Stanford: Orchestral Songs | | Susanne Heinrich - Mr Abel's Fine Airs | | Marin Alsop - Bernstein: Mass |
The Gold Disc | | | Stephen Hough - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos | | |
Historic Archive | Joseph Keilberth conducting the Bayreuth Festival Opera - Wagner: Siegfried | Joseph Keilberth conducting the Bayreuth Festival Opera - Wagner: Götterdämmerung | | Rafael Kubelík conducting The Royal Opera - Berlioz: Les Troyens | Friedrich Gulda - Beethoven: 32 Piano Sonatas, Eroica Variations, etc. |
Historic Reissue | | Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia - Moeran: Symphony in G minor, etc. | Erik Werba, Kim Borg - Sibelius: Songs | | |
Instrumental | Piotr Anderszewski - Szymanowski: Piano Works | | Paul Lewis - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 | | |
Label of the Year | | | | | Linn Records |
Lifetime Achievement | | | | | Alfred Brendel |
Opera | | Riccardo Frizza - Rossini: Matilde di Shabran | Jirí Belohlávek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Broucek | Antonio Pappano conducting the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Angela Gheorghiu - Puccini: Madama Butterfly | Mark Elder conducting Hallé Orchestra - Wagner: Götterdämmerung |
Orchestral | | Valery Gergiev conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies | | | Charles Mackerras conducting the Czech Philharmonic - Dvořák: Symphonic Poems |
Recital | | Ulf Schirmer conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra - Keenlyside: Tales of Opera | Ádám Fischer conducting the Orchestra La Scintilla, Cecilia Bartoli - Maria | | |
Record of the Year | Claudio Abbado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Orchestral) | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Nelson Freire - Brahms: Piano Concertos (Concerto) | Paul Lewis - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 | Ébène Quartet - Debussy: String Quartet, Fauré: String Quartet, Ravel: String Quartet (Chamber) | Andrew Carwood conducting The Cardinall's Musick - Byrd: Infelix ego (Early Music) |
Solo Vocal | Christian Gerhaher with Gerold Huber - Schubert: Abendbilder | Jonas Kaufmann with Helmut Deutsch - Strauss: Lieder | Gerald Finley with Julius Drake - Barber: Songs | | |
Special Achievement | | | | | |
Young Artist of the Year | | | | | Sol Gabetta | |
Category | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Artist of the Year | | | | | Paavo Järvi[14] |
Baroque Instrumental | Petra Müllejans conducting the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Andreas Staier - C. P. E. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz, Petra Müllejans - C. P. E. Bach: Orchestral Suites | | Mahan Esfahani - C. P. E. Bach: Württemberg Sonatas | David Watkin - Bach: Cello Suites |
Baroque Vocal | La Risonanza Glossa - Handel: Apollo e Dafne | Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis - Schütz: Musikalische Exequien | | Hans-Christoph Rademann conducting the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Elizabeth Watts, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Lothar Odinius, Markus Eiche - C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat, Heilig ist Gott, Symphony in D major | Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting the Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco |
Chamber | Pavel Haas Quartet - Dvořák: Violin Sonata, American Quartet | Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Leif Ove Andsnes - Schumann: Complete works for piano trio | Barnabás Kelemen, Zoltán Kocsis - Bartók: Violin Sonatas 1 & 2 | Pavel Haas Quartet, Danjulo Ishizaka - Schubert: String Quintet D956, Death and the Maiden | Pavel Haas Quartet - Smetana: String Quartets 1 & 2 |
Choral | Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Claire Rutter, Susan Bickley, John Hudson, Iain Paterson - Elgar: The Kingdom | Stephen Layton conducting the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Howells: St Paul's Service | Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Rebecca Evans, Alice Coote, Paul Groves, Jacques Imbrailo, David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt - Elgar: The Apostles | John Butt conducting the Dunedin Consort, Joanne Lunn, Rowan Hellier, Thomas Hobbs, Matthew Brook - Mozart: Requiem, Misericordias Domini | Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar - Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures |
Concerto | Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Debussy: Fantaisie, Ravel: Piano Concertos, Massenet: Piano Works | | | Gianandrea Noseda conducted BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Prokofiev: Complete Piano Concertos | Daniel Harding conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maria João Pires - Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 |
Contemporary | Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the Hallé Orchestra - Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird | John Storgårds conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Currie, Truls Mørk - Rautavaara: Incantations, Towards the Horizon, Modificata | Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Barbara Hannigan, Anssi Karttunen - Dutilleux: Correspondances | Benjamin conducting The Royal Opera, Christopher Purves, Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Victoria Simmonds, Allan Clayton; directed by Katie Mitchell (stage) and Margaret Williams (video) - Benjamin: Written on Skin (DVD) | Sakari Oramo conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Nørgård: Symphony 1 & 8 |
DVD Documentary | Carlos Kleiber - Traces to Nowhere | Jerome Hiler - Music Makes a City | | | |
DVD Performance | Antonio Pappano conducting The Royal Opera and Chorus - Verdi: Don Carlos | | | | |
Early Music | Robert Hollingworth conducting I Fagiolini - Striggio: Mass in Forty Parts | Michael Noone conducting Ensemble Plus Ultra - Victoria: Sacred Works | Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort & Players - A New Venetian Coronation 1595 | La Compagnia del Madrigale - Marenzio: Primo libro di madrigali | David Skinner, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - The Spy's Choirbook |
Editor's Choice | | | | | |
Historic | | | | | |
Instrumental | | | Steven Osborne - Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition, Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Visions fugitives | Arcadi Volodos - "Volodos plays Mompou" | Piotr Anderszewski - Bach: English Suites 1, 3 & 5 |
Label of the Year | | | | | Channel Classics[15] |
Lifetime Achievement Award | | Claudio Abbado[16] | | | Bernard Haitink[17] |
Music in the Community Award | | | | | |
Opera | David Parry conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Rossini: Ermione | Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Nina Stemme, Jonas Kaufmann - Beethoven: Fidelio | Antonio Pappano conducting The Royal Opera and Chorus, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Ermonela Jaho, Lucio Gallo, Elena Zilio, Francesco Demuro, Richard Jones - Puccini: Il trittico (DVD) | Kazushi Ono conducting the Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, François Piolino, Elliot Madore, Paul Gay, Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain; directed by Laurent Pelly (stage) and François Roussillon (video) - Ravel: L'heure espagnole, L'enfant et les sortilèges (DVD) | Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre de Paris; directed by Patrice Chéreau (stage) and Stéphane Metge (video) - Strauss: Elektra |
Orchestral | | Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Martinu: Symphonies | Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Suk: Praga, A Summer's Tale | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies |
Outstanding Achievement Award | | | | | Neville Marriner |
Recital | Antonio Pappano conducting the Santa Cecilia Orchestra & Choir, Jonas Kaufmann - Verismo Arias | | | Richard Egarr conducting Wigmore Hall Live, Iestyn Davies - Arise, my muse | Jeffrey Skidmore conducting the Ex Cathedra, Carolyn Sampson - A French Baroque Diva |
Record of the Year | Pavel Haas Quartet - Dvořák: Violin Sonata, American Quartet (Chamber) | Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis - Schütz: Musikalische Exequien (Baroque Vocal) | Peter Eötvös conducting the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Eötvös: Seven, Ligeti: Violin Concerto (Concerto) | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies (Orchestral) | Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 |
Solo Vocal | Gerald Finley with Julius Drake - Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake | Simon Keenlyside with Malcolm Martineau - Britten: Songs of War | | | Christian Gerhaher with Gerold Huber - Schubert: Nachtviolen |
Special Achievement | | Václav Talich conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Czech National Anthem, Smetana: Má vlast (Historical Norwegian Radio recording in Nazi-occupied Prague on 5 June 1939; remastered by Matouš Vlčinský, Supraphon)[18] | | | |
Specialist Classical Chart | Miloš Karadaglić - The Guitar | | | | |
Vocal | | | Donald Runnicles conducting the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jonas Kaufmann - Wagner: Arias | Jonas Kaufmann with Helmut Deutsch - Schubert: Winterreise | |
Young Artist of the Year | | | | Nightingale String Quartet | Joseph Moog[19] | |
Category | 2016 | 2017[20] | 2018[21] | 2019[22] [23] | 2020[24] |
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Anniversary Award | | | | | |
Artist of the Year | Trifonov[25] | | | | Igor Levit |
Baroque Instrumental | Rachel Podger with Jonathan Manson, David Miller, Marcin Świątkiewicz - Biber: Rosary Sonatas[26] | Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima - The Italian Job | | | |
Baroque Vocal | Paul Agnew conducting Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Vol 1 – Cremona | | | | |
Beethoven 250 Award | | | | | |
Chamber | The Heath Quartet - Tippett: String Quartets [27] | Silesian String Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets | | | Vilde Frang, Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, Lawrence Power, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich - Bartók: Piano Quintet, Veress: Piano Trio |
Choral | Markus Stenz conducting the Netherlands Female Youth Choir, Cologne Cathedral Choir, Male Voices and Vocal Ensemble, Bach-Verein Köln, Kartäuserkantorei Köln, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Barbara Haveman, Claudia Mahnke, Brandon Jovanovich, Gerhard Siegel, Thomas Bauer, Johannes Martin Kränzle - Schoenberg Gurrelieder[28] | Masaaki Suzuki conducting Bach Collegium Japan, Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makoto Sakurada, Christian Immler - Mozart: Mass in C minor, Exsultate, jubilate | Kaspars Putniņš conducting the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Pärt: Magnificat, Nunc dimittis; Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance | Lionel Meunier conducting Vox Luminis, Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin - Buxtehude: Abendmusiken | Masaaki Suzuki conducting Bach Collegium Japan - Bach: St Matthew Passion |
Concept Album of the Year | | | Sean Shibe - softLOUD: Music for Acoustic and Electric Guitars (Delphian Records) | Hugo Ticciati conducting O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra - From the Ground Up: The Chaconne (Signum Classics) |
Concerto | James Gaffigan conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vilde Frang - Britten: Violin Concertos, Korngold: Violin Concerto[29] | | | Vladimir Jurowski conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry, Kim Begley, John Tomlinson, Jacques Imbrailo - Dean: Hamlet | Elim Chan conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin: Piano Concertos |
Contemporary | Andris Nelsons conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan - Abrahamsen: let me tell you[30] | George Benjamin conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Benjamin: Palimpsests, Ligeti: Lontano, Murail: Le désenchantement du monde | Pascal Rophé conducting the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Arditti Quartet - Dusapin: String Quartets 6 & 7 | | Thomas Adès conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Gerstein, Mark Stone, Christianne Stotijn - Adès: Piano Concerto, Totentanz |
Early Music | Andrew Parrott conducting the Taverner Choir & Players - Taverner: The Western Wynde Mass[31] | Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny - Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares | Scott Metcalfe, Blue Heron - Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol 5 | Luís Toscano conducting the Cupertinos - Cardoso - Requiem Lamentations, Magnificat and Motets | Cardoso conducting Les Arts Florissants - Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo |
Instrumental | Levit Goldberg Variations, Diabelli Variations Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated![32]
| Murray Perahia - Bach: French Suites | | Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital | Levit - Complete Piano Sonatas |
Label of the Year | | | | | Alpha Classics |
Lifetime Achievement | Christa Ludwig[33] | | | | Itzhak Perlman |
Opera | Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ludovic Tézier, Erwin Schrott, Marco Spotti, Eleonora Buratto, Paolo Fanale - Verdi: Aida[34] | | | Chœur de la radio flamande, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet - Halévy: La reine de Chypre | Maxim Emelyanychev conducting the Il Pomo d'Oro, Joyce DiDonato - Handel: Agrippina |
Orchestra of the Year | | | | | Philadelphia Orchestra |
Orchestral | Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10[35] | Giovanni Antonini conducting the Il Giardino Armonico, Riccardo Novaro - Haydn: Il Distratto, Haydn 2032 - No. 4 | François-Xavier Roth conducting the Les Siècles, Ensemble Aedes - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé | | |
Recital | Raphaël Pichon conducting the Pygmalion, Arnaud de Pasquale, Sabine Devieilhe - Mozart & The Weber Sisters[36] | Maxim Emelyanychev conducting the Il Pomo d'Oro, Joyce DiDonato - In War & Peace | Ottavio Dantone conducting the Accademia Bizantina, Delphine Galou - Agitata | Philippe Jaroussky conducting the Ensemble Artaserse - Cavalli: Ombra mai fu | Julien Chauvin conducting Le Concert de la Loge, Sandrine Piau |
Recording of the Year | Levit Goldberg Variations, Diabelli Variations Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Instrumental)
| Giovanni Antonini conducting Il Giardino Armonico, Isabelle Faust - Mozart: Violin Concertos 1-5, Adagio, Rondos K269 & K373 (Concerto) | John Nelson conducting the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Berlioz: Les Troyens (Opera) | Orchestre National de France, Bertrand Chamayou - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto 2 & 5 (Concerto) | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica - Weinberg: Symphony Nos. 2 & 21 (Orchestral) |
Solo Vocal | Véronique Gens with Susan Manoff - Néère[37] | Matthias Goerne with Christoph Eschenbach - Lieder und Gesänge (Op. 32), Vier ernste Gesänge, Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine | Marianne Crebassa with Fazıl Say - Secrets | | Nicky Spence with Julius Drake - Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared, etc. |
Special Achievement | | | | | Robert von Bahr[38] |
Young Artist of the Year | Benjamin Appl[39] | | | | Natalya Romaniw | |
Category | 2021[40] | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Artist of the Year | | | | | |
Chamber | Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson - Beach: Piano Quintet, Elgar: Piano Quintet | Ébène Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt, Antoine Tamestit - Monk: "'Round Midnight" | | | |
Choral | Richard Egarr conducting the Academy of Ancient Music Choir, Stefanie True, Helen Charlston, Gwilym Bowen, Morgan Pearse - Dussek: Messe Solemnelle | Raphaël Pichon conducting Pygmalion - Bach: St Matthew Passion | Sigvards Kļava conducting the Latvian Radio Choir: Cage: Choral Works | | |
Concept Album | Christian-Pierre La Marca - Cello 360 | Das Freie Orchester Berlin, Jarkko Riihimäki, Emily D'Angelo - Enargeia | Helen Charlston, Toby Carr - Battle Cry: She Speaks | | |
Concerto | Vladimir Jurowski conducting the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Alina Ibragimova, Yevgeny Svetlanov - Shostakovich: Violin Concertos | Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Harding, Alan Gilbert conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, Frank Peter Zimmermann - Bartók: Violin Concerto, Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Berg: Violin Concerto | Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Ridout - Elgar: Viola Concerto, Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra | | |
Contemporary | Martyn Brabbins conducting the Nash Ensemble, Susan Bickley - Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo, etc. | Cornelius Meister conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra and Chorus - Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen | Nicholas Collon conducting the Finnish Royal Symphony Orchestra, Sivan Magen - Wennäkoski: Sigla, Sedecim | | |
Early Music | Peter Phillips conducting The Tallis Scholars - Josquin: Masses, Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, Missa D'ung aultre amer, Missa Faisant regretz | Jean-Christophe Groffe conducting Ensemble Thélème - Josquin: Baisé moy, ma doulce amye | Paul Van Nevel conducting the Huelgas Ensemble: Daser: Polyphonic Masses | | |
Instrumental | Sean Shibe - Bach: Lute Suites | James Ehnes - Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin (Op. 27) | Nurit Stark - Bartók, Eötvös, Ligeti, Veress: Music for Solo Violin and Viola | | |
Label of the Year | | | | | |
Lifetime Achievement | | | | | |
Opera | Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall, Roderick Williams, Susan Bickley, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray, James Gilchrist, Marcus Farnsworth - Britten: Peter Grimes | Kirill Petrenko conducting the Bavarian State Opera - Korngold: Die tote Stadt | Edward Gardner conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, English National Opera Chorus, Robert Murray, Rachel Nicholls, Ashley Riches, Jennifer France, Toby Spence, Claire Barnett-Jones, Susan Bickley, Joshua Bloom - Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage | | |
Orchestra of the Year | | | Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen |
Orchestral | Paavo Järvi conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra - Schmidt: Complete Symphonies | | | | |
Piano | Piotr Anderszewski - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 excerpts | Krystian Zimerman - Szymanowski: Piano Works | | |
Recording of the Year | Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall, Roderick Williams, Susan Bickley, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray, James Gilchrist, Marcus Farnsworth - Britten: Peter Grimes | Kirill Petrenko conducting the Bavarian State Opera - Korngold: Die tote Stadt (Opera) | Fabio Luisi conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Nielsen: Symphony 4 & 5 (Orchestral) | | |
Song | Vision String Quartet, Tamer Pinarbasi, Henning Sieverts, Tim Allhoff, Itamar Doari, Burcu Karadağ, Rafael Aguirre, Fatma Said, Malcolm Martineau - "El Nour"[41] | Asmik Grigorian, Lukas Geniušas - Rachmaninoff: "Dissonance" | Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës - Fauré: Complete Songs | | |
Special Achievement | | Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart Momentum | | | |
Spatial Audio | Stile Antico - The Golden Renaissance: Josquin Des Prez | John Wilson conducting the Sinfonia of London - Ravel: Orchestral Works | Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Wagner: Die Walküre | | |
Voice & Ensemble | | Michael Spyres with Marko Letonja conducting the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra - BariTenor | Sandrine Piau, Véronique Gens with Julien Chauvin conducting Le Concert de la Loge - Rivales | | |
Young Artist of the Year | | Johan Dalene | | | |