Category | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
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 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 | David Zinman conducting the London Sinfonietta, Upshaw – Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta conducting the Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey Chorus – Gregorian chant |
Chamber | Jaime Laredo conducting Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern – Brahms: Piano Quartets 1, 2, & 3 | Carmine Quartet – Szymanowski: String Quartet Nos. 1 & 2, Webern: Langsamer Satz | Quatuor Mosaïques – Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 | Borodin Quartet, Yuri Yurov, Mikhail Milman – Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1, 2, & 3, Souvenir de Florence | Domus – Fauré: Piano Quintets |
Choral | John Eliot Gardiner conducting English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles – Beethoven: Missa solemnis | 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 | Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Leonidas Kavakos – Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D major | Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Nickolai Demidenko – Medtner: Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3 | Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the London 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 the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kyung Wha Chung – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Rhapsodies Nos. 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 | Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Steven Isserlis – Tavener: The Protecting Veil, Britten: Cello Suite No. 3 | Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Koch:[not specific enough to verify] 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 Nos. 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 | Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the BBC Philharmonic – Dutilleux: Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 | 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 | Hollywood String Quartet, Alvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Schubert: String Quintet in C major | 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, vols. 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 | 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 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 | Herbert Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony, Kevin McMillan, Fromm,[not specific enough to verify] – Nielsen: "The Four Temperaments", Sinfonia Espansiva | Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Hildegard Behrens, Plácido Domingo, Reinhild Runkel, José van Dam, Júlia Várady, Sumi Jo – Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten | Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Hindemith: Kammermusik | 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 | Abbey Road Studios | Edward Greenfield | 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 | - | Bryn Terfel | Sarah Chang | Maxim Vengerov | - |