| Category | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
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| Artist of the Year | Luciano Pavarotti | Kiri Te Kanawa | Simon Rattle | John Eliot Gardiner | Pierre Boulez |
| Baroque Non-Vocal | Davitt Moroney,John Holloway –Biber:Mystery Sonatas | Christophe Rousset –Rameau: Harpsichord Works | Reinhard Goebel conductingMusica Antiqua Köln –Heinichen: Dresden Concertos | Pierre Hantaï –Bach:Goldberg Variations | Harmonia Mundi –Biber: Violin Sonatas;Romanesca |
| Baroque Vocal | Nicholas McGegan conducting thePhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra,U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus,Lorraine Hunt, Drew Minter,Jill Feldman, William Parker, Jeffrey Thomas,David Thomas -Handel:Susanna | René Jacobs conducting theConcerto Köln,Jennifer Larmore,Barbara Schlick,Bernarda Fink, Marianne Rørholm,Derek Lee Ragin –Handel:Giulio Cesare | Marc Minkowski conductingLes 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 conductingLes Arts Florissants –Rameau:Grant Motets |
| Best-Selling Disc | - | - | - | - | Zubin Mehta conducting theLos 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 | David Zinman conducting theLondon Sinfonietta,Upshaw –Górecki:Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta conducting theSanto Domingo de Silos Abbey Chorus –Gregorian chant |
| Chamber | Jaime Laredo conductingEmanuel Ax,Isaac Stern –Brahms: Piano Quartets1,2, &3 | Carmine Quartet –Szymanowski: String QuartetNos.1 & 2,Webern:Langsamer Satz | Quatuor Mosaïques –Haydn:String Quartets, Op. 20 | Borodin Quartet, Yuri Yurov, Mikhail Milman –Tchaikovsky: String Quartets1,2, &3,Souvenir de Florence | Domus –Fauré: Piano Quintets |
| Choral | John Eliot Gardiner conductingOrchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique,Monteverdi Choir,Charlotte Margiono,Catherine Robbin, William Kendall,Alastair Miles –Beethoven:Missa solemnis | Richard Hickox conductingLondon Symphony Orchestra andChorus, St Paul's Cathedral Choristers,Heather Harper,Philip Langridge,Martyn Hill,John Shirley-Quirk –Britten:War Requiem | Kurt Masur conducting theIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra,MDR Rundfunkchor,Alistair Miles,Helen Donath, Jard van Nes,Donald George –Mendelssohn:Elias | Richard Hickox conducting theBournemouth Symphony Orchestra,Bryn Terfel,Sally Burgess –Delius:Sea Drift,Songs of Farewell | - |
| Choral and engineering | - | - | - | - | Simon Rattle conducting theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus –Szymanowski:Stabat Mater,Symphony No. 3 |
| Concerto | Osmo Vänskä conducting theLahti Symphony Orchestra,Leonidas Kavakos –Sibelius:Violin Concerto in D major | Jerzy Maksymiuk conductingBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Nickolai Demidenko –Medtner: Piano ConcertoNos.2 &3 | Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra,Stephen Kovacevich,Ann Murray,Nobuko Imai –Brahms:Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor,Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano | Simon Rattle conducting theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,Kyung Wha Chung –Bartók:Violin Concerto No. 2, RhapsodiesNos. 1 & 2 | Rostropovich conducting theLondon 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 | Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting theLondon Symphony Orchestra,Steven Isserlis –Tavener:The Protecting Veil,Britten:Cello Suite No. 3 | Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting theBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra –MacMillan:The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Koch:[not specific enough to verify] Tryst | Oliver Knussen conducting theBBC Symphony Orchestra –Holloway:Second Concerto for Orchestra | Pierre Boulez conductingEnsemble intercontemporain,Saschko Gawriloff,Jean-Guihen Queyras,Pierre-Laurent Aimard –Ligeti: Concertos forPiano,Violin, andCello |
| Early Opera Music | - | - | - | - | William Christie conductingLes Arts Florissants –Purcell:King Arthur |
| Early Music | Peter Phillips conductingThe Tallis Scholars –Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria, Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas | Harry Christophers conductingThe Sixteen – "The Rose and The Ostrich Feather",Music from theEton Choirbook, Vol. 1 | Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players – Venetian Vespers | Peter Phillips conductingThe Tallis Scholars –Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem | Andrew Carwood conductingThe Cardinall's Musick –Fayrfax:Missa O quam glorifica, etc. |
| Engineering | Nicholas Braithwaite conducting theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra –Wordsworth: SymphonyNos. 2 & 3 | Richard Hickox conductingLondon 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 theLondon Symphony Orchestra,Chorus,Sylvia McNair,Nathalie Stutzmann,Ann Murray,Leslie Caron –Debussy:Le martyre de Saint Sébastien | Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting theBBC Philharmonic –Dutilleux: SymphonyNos.1 &2 | Simon Rattle conducting theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus –Szymanowski –Stabat Mater,Symphony No. 3 |
| Historical Non-Vocal | Anton Webern conductingBBC Symphony Orchestra, Galimir Quartet,Louis Krasner –Berg:Violin Concerto,Lyric Suite | Edward Elgar conducting theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra –The Elgar Edition, Vol. 1 | Sergei Rachmaninov –The Complete Recordings | Hollywood String Quartet, Alvin Dinkin,Kurt Reher –Schoenberg:Verklärte Nacht,Schubert:String Quintet in C major | Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting thePhilharmonia Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Chorus –Beethoven:Symphony No. 9 |
| Historical Vocal | Gérard Souzay withJacqueline Bonneau –Fauré,Chausson, Airs Français | Covent Garden on Record: A History | Singers of Imperial Russia,vols. 1–4 | English Opera Group, BBC Theatre Chorus, Orchestra of theRoyal 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 NationalOrchestra and Chorus –Ravel:L'enfant et les sortileges |
| Instrumental | Tatyana Nikolaieva –Shostakovich:24 Preludes and Fugues | Olli Mustonen –Preludes, Op. 31,Shostakovich:24 Preludes | Shura Cherkassky – 80th Birthday Recital | Krystian Zimerman –Debussy:Préludes | Murray Perahia –Chopin:Four Ballades,Mazurkas,Études,Nocturnes |
| Lifetime Achievement | Joan Sutherland | Georg Solti | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Klaus Tennstedt | Michael Tippett |
| Music Theatre | Original London Cast –Sondheim:Into the Woods | Leonard Bernstein conducting theLondon Symphony Orchestra,Chorus,Jerry Hadley,June Anderson – Bernstein:Candide | Eric Stern,Lara Teeter,Ann Morrison –Gershwin:Lady, Be Good! | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting theLondon Symphony Orchestra –Bernstein:On the Town | I wish it so – The Songs of Vernon Duke; Dawn Upshaw (soprano); orchestra /Eric Stern conductingDawn Upshaw, orchestra –Duke:The Songs of Vernon Duke ("I Wish It So") |
| Opera | John Eliot Gardiner conducting theEnglish Baroque Soloists,Anthony Rolfe Johnson,Anne Sofie Von Otter,Hillevi Martinpelto,Sylvia McNair, Nigel Robson,Glenn Winslade –Mozart:Idomeneo | Kent Nagano conducting theOpéra 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 theWelsh National Opera,Josephine Barstow, Phillip Langridge –Britten:Gloriana | Richard Hickox conducting Chorus & Orchestra of Opera North –Walton:Troilus and Cressida |
| Orchestral | Herbert Blomstedt conducting theSan Francisco Symphony, Kevin McMillan, Fromm,[not specific enough to verify] –Nielsen:"The Four Temperaments",Sinfonia Espansiva | Georg Solti conducting theVienna Philharmonic,Hildegard Behrens,Plácido Domingo, Reinhild Runkel,José van Dam,Júlia Várady,Sumi Jo –Strauss:Die Frau ohne Schatten | Riccardo Chailly conducting theRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra –Hindemith:Kammermusik | David Zinman conducting theBerlin Radio Symphony Orchestra –Koechlin:The Jungle Book, Symphonic Poems | Simon Rattle conducting theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,Birmingham Contemporary Music Group,Phyllis Bryn-Julson –Schoenberg:Chamber Symphony No. 1,Erwartung |
| Record of the Year | John Eliot Gardiner conductingOrchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique,Monteverdi Choir,Charlotte Margiono,Catherine Robbin, William Kendall,Alastair Miles –Beethoven:Missa solemnis (Choral) | Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting theChamber Orchestra of Europe –Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (Orchestral) | Anne Sofie von Otter withBengt Forsberg –Grieg songs (Solo Vocal) | Krystian Zimerman –Debussy:Préludes (Instrumental) | Mstislav Rostropovich conducting theLondon Symphony Orchestra,Maxim Vengerov –Prokofiev:Violin Concerto No. 1,Shostakovich: Vio (Concerto) |
| Solo Vocal | Peter Schreier withAndrás Schiff –Schubert:Die schöne Müllerin | Brigitte Fassbaender withAribert Reimann –Schubert: Lieder | Anne Sofie von Otter withBengt Forsberg –Grieg songs | Cheryl Studer withThomas Hampson &John Browning –Barber: Complete Songs | Bryn Terfel withMalcolm Martineau –Schubert: Lieder |
| Special Achievement | The Complete Mozart Edition | Abbey Road Studios | Edward Greenfield | Sviatoslav Richter –Richter: The Authorized Edition | John Mauceri conducting theDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Berlin Radio Chorus –Korngold:Das Wunder der Heliane |
| Video | - | - | Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting theBavarian State Opera (1989) –Wagner:Der Ring des Nibelungen | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting theLondon Symphony Orchestra (1992) –Bernstein:On the Town | The Art of Conducting – Great Conductors of the Past |
| Young Artist of the Year | - | Bryn Terfel | Sarah Chang | Maxim Vengerov | - |
