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{{short description|British award for recordings of classical music}}
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[[File:Simon Gramophone.jpg|thumb|[[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]]'s Simon Eder collects the Gramophone's Label of the Year Award 2019]]

The '''Gramophone Classical Music Awards''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/|title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards|last=McCarthy|first=James|date=2018-06-14|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=2018-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729090124/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards|archive-date=29 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the [[Classical music|classical]] [[record industry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/gramophone.php |title=Gramophone Magazine – Buy music CDs & DVDs online |publisher=Presto Classical |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-date=3 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003154438/http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/gramophone.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/classic-fm-gramophone-awards |title=Gramophone Awards 2015 &#124; Nominations, Winners & Performers |publisher=Classic FM |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502122145/https://www.classicfm.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The British awards are often viewed as equivalent to<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows/david-mellor/gramophone-awards-2012/ |title=Gramophone Awards 2012 Special &#124; Radio Shows |publisher=Classic FM |date=2012-09-20 |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026182214/http://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows/david-mellor/gramophone-awards-2012/ |url-status=live }}</ref> or surpassing<ref>{{cite web|author=Anastasia Tsioulcas|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/08/27/215749389/slimmed-down-gramophone-awards-honor-home-team|title=Slimmed-Down Gramophone Awards Honor Home Team|publisher=[[NPR]] Classical|date=2013-08-27|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=9 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509124809/http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/08/27/215749389/slimmed-down-gramophone-awards-honor-home-team|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Anastasia Tsioulcas|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/10/06/141110545/the-gramophone-awards-2011-what-do-you-think|title=The Gramophone Awards 2011: What Do You Think?|publisher=[[NPR]] Classical|date=6 October 2011|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=9 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509114204/http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/10/06/141110545/the-gramophone-awards-2011-what-do-you-think|url-status=live}}</ref> the American [[Grammy Awards]], and referred to as the ''[[Academy Awards|Oscars]]'' for classical music.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mike Wade|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article2748607.ece|title=Classical 'Oscar' for Scots label|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=2010-09-30|access-date=2016-08-05|archive-date=28 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028021455/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article2748607.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albion-media.com/clients/gramophone-awards |title=Gramophone Awards |publisher=Albion Media |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820200812/http://www.albion-media.com/clients/gramophone-awards/ |archive-date=20 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deccaclassics.com/gb/gpp/index/deccaclassics-gramophone |title=Decca – home of classical music |publisher=Deccaclassics.com |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-date=15 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015064453/http://www.deccaclassics.com/gb/gpp/index/deccaclassics-gramophone |url-status=live }}</ref> They are widely regarded as the most influential and prestigious classical music awards in the world.<ref>{{cite web |author=Charlotte Smith |url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2013-announced |title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2013 announced! |publisher=gramophone.co.uk |date=2013-09-17 |access-date=2016-08-05 |archive-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026170552/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2013-announced |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joshuabell.com/awards |title=Awards – The Official Joshua Bell Site |publisher=Joshuabell.com |date=2008-04-07 |access-date=2016-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819082249/http://www.joshuabell.com/awards/ |archive-date=19 August 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> According to Matthew Owen, national sales manager for [[Harmonia Mundi]] USA, "ultimately it is ''the'' classical award, especially worldwide."<ref>{{cite web|author=John Henken|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-grammys-gramophone-story.html#page=1|title=Gramophone Awards: Where classical is the star|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=19 February 2001|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=13 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213015443/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-grammys-gramophone-story.html#page=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

The winners are selected annually by [[critic]]s for the ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|''Gramophone'']]'' magazine and various members of the industry, including retailers, broadcasters, arts administrators, and musicians. Awards are usually presented in September each year in London.

==1977–1980==
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! Category !! 1977 !! 1978 !! 1979 !! 1980
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| Chamber || [[Fitzwilliam Quartet]] – [[Shostakovich]]: String Quartets [[String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich)|4]] & [[String Quartet No. 12 (Shostakovich)|12]] || [[Martha Argerich]], [[Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich]], Willy Goudswaard, Michael de Roo – [[Bartók]]: Sonata for 2 Pianos; [[Debussy]], ''[[En blanc et noir]]''; [[Mozart]]: [[List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Piano four-hands|Andante With 5 Variations for Piano]] || [[Beaux Arts Trio]] – [[Haydn]]: [[List of piano trios by Joseph Haydn|piano trios]] || [[Maurizio Pollini]] – [[Brahms]]: [[Piano Quintet (Brahms)|Piano Quintet]]; [[Quartetto Italiano]] – solo
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| Choral || [[Philip Ledger]] conducting [[Choir of King's College, Cambridge|Kings College Choir]], New [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] – Elgar: ''[[Coronation Ode]]''; [[Hubert Parry|Parry]]: ''[[I was glad#Musical settings at British coronations|I was glad]]'' || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[Monteverdi Choir]] and Orchestra – [[Handel]]: [[Dixit Dominus (Handel)|Dixit Dominus]] || [[Seiji Ozawa]] conducting [[Tanglewood Festival Chorus]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Schoenberg]]: ''[[Gurre-Lieder]]'' || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[Monteverdi Choir]] – [[Handel]]: [[L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato|L'Allegro, il Penseroso]]
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| Concerto || [[Neville Marriner]] conducting [[Academy of St Martin in the Fields]] – [[Mozart]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 22 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 22]]; [[Alfred Brendel]] – solo || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Prokofiev]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]; [[Andrei Gavrilov]] – solo || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Bartók]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)|1]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|2]]; [[Maurizio Pollini]] – solo || [[Lorin Maazel]] conducting [[French National Orchestra]] – [[Ravel]]: [[Piano Concerto in G major (Ravel)|Piano Concerto in G]]; [[Jean-Philippe Collard]] – solo
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| Contemporary || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Berio]]: Concerto for Two Pianos; [[Luciano Berio]] conducting [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting [[Juilliard String Quartet]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Webern]]: Complete Works || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] – [[Maxwell Davies|Davies]]: [[Symphony No. 1 (Davies)|Symphony No. 1]] || [[David Atherton]] conducting [[London Sinfonietta]] -[[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''[[Punch and Judy (opera)|Punch and Judy]]''
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| Early Music || [[Julian Bream]] – [[Dowland]]: Lute Works || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[English Baroque Soloists]] – [[Handel]]: ''[[Acis and Galatea (Handel)|Acis and Galatea]]'' || [[Christopher Hogwood]] conducting [[Academy of Ancient Music]] – [[Mozart]]: Symphonies Vol. 3 || [[Trevor Pinnock]] conducting [[The English Concert]] – [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach|C. P. E. Bach]]: Sinfonias
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| Engineering || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[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 (Debussy)|Nocturnes]]'', ''[[Jeux]]''
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| Historical || ''[[The Record of Singing#The Record of Singing Volume 1 (1899–1919)|The Record of Singing]]'' || [[Charles Bruck]] conducting [[Dutch National Opera|Netherlands Opera]] Chorus and Orchestra – [[Gluck]]: ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' || [[The Record of Singing#The Record of Singing Volume 2 (1914–1925)|Record of Singing Vol. 2]] || {{center|-}}
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| Historical Vocal || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || Gramophone Co. Recordings – [[Fernando De Lucia|Lucia]]
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| Historical Non-Vocal || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Joseph Szigeti]], [[Benny Goodman]] – [[Bartók]]: ''[[Contrasts (Bartók)|Contrasts]]''
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| Instrumental || [[Maurizio Pollini]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Piano sonatas (Beethoven)|Piano Sonatas]] 27–32 || [[Alfred Brendel]] – [[Liszt]]: Piano Works || [[Peter Hurford]] – [[Bach]]: [[List of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach|Organ Works]] Vol. 3 || [[Krystian Zimerman]] – [[Brahms]]: Piano Sonatas [[Piano Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)|1]] & [[Piano Sonata No. 2 (Brahms)|2]]
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| 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 – [[Alban Berg|Berg]]: ''[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]'' || [[Charles Mackerras]] conducting [[Vienna State Opera]], [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Janáček]]: ''[[From the House of the Dead]]''
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| Orchestral || [[Adrian Boult]] conducting [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Elgar]]: [[Symphony No. 1 (Elgar)|Symphony No. 1]] || [[Benjamin Britten]] conducting [[English Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Mozart]]: Symphonies [[Symphony No. 25 (Mozart)|25]] & [[Symphony No. 29 (Mozart)|29]] || [[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 (Debussy)|Nocturnes]]''
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| Solo Vocal || [[Maxim Shostakovich]] conducting [[Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Shostakovich]]: Suite, Six Songs to Lyrics, etc. || [[André Previn]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Ernest Chausson|Chausson]]: ''[[Poème (Chausson)|Poème]]''; [[Duparc]]: Melodies; [[Janet Baker]] – solo || [[Elisabeth Söderström]], [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]] – [[Grechaninov]], etc., Five Children's Songs || Graham Trew, [[Roger Vignoles]] – ''[[A Shropshire Lad]]''
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==1981–1985==
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! Category !! 1981 !! 1982/1983 !! 1984 !! 1985
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| Chamber || Tokyo Quartet – [[Bartók]]: [[List of string quartets by Béla Bartók|String Quartets 1–6]] || [[Borodin Quartet]] – [[Alexander Borodin|Borodin]]: String Quartets 1 & 2 || [[Lindsay Quartet]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Late string quartets (Beethoven)|Late String Quartets]] || [[Alban Berg Quartett]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Late string quartets (Beethoven)|Late String Quartets]]
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| Choral || [[Eric Fenby]] conducting [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Delius]]: Fenby Legacy || [[Joshua Rifkin]] conducting Bach Ensemble – [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]: [[Mass in B minor]] || [[Peter Schreier]] conducting [[Staatskapelle Dresden|Dresden State Orchestra]], [[Margaret Price]], [[Trudeliese Schmidt]], [[Francisco Araiza]], [[Theo Adam]] – [[Mozart]]: [[Requiem (Mozart)|Requiem]] || [[John Rutter]] conducting [[Cambridge Singers]], [[City of London Sinfonia]], Caroline Ashton, [[Stephen Varcoe]], [[Simon Standage]], [[John Scott (organist)|John Scott]] – [[Fauré]]: [[Requiem (Fauré)|Requiem]], ''[[Cantique de Jean Racine]]''
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| Concerto || [[Carlo Maria Giulini]] conducting [[Philharmonia]] – [[Beethoven]]: Violin Concerto in D minor; Perlman – solo || [[Colin Davis]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]: Triple Concerto || [[Murray Perahia]] conducting [[English Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Mozart]]: [[Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Piano Concertos]] 15, 16 || [[Vernon Handley]] conducting [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Nigel Kennedy]] – [[Elgar]]: [[Violin Concerto (Elgar)|Violin Concerto in B minor]]
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| Contemporary || [[David Atherton]] conducting [[London Sinfonietta]] – [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]: ''[[King Priam]]'' || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], [[Phyllis Bryn-Julson]] – Boulez: ''[[Pli selon pli]]'' || [[Arditti Quartet]] ([[Irvine Arditti]], [[Levine Andrade]], Lennox MacKenzie, [[Rohan de Saram]]) – [[Brian Ferneyhough]]: Quartet 2, [[Jonathan Harvey (composer)|Jonathan Harvey]]: Quartet 2, [[Elliott Carter]]: [[String Quartet No. 3 (Carter)|String Quartet No. 3]] || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting [[Ensemble InterContemporain]], {{ill|Adrienne Csengery|hu|Csengery Adrienne}}, [[Márta Fábián]], [[John Alldis Choir]] – [[György Kurtág]]: ''{{ill|Messages de feu Demoiselle R.V. Troussova|fr}}'', [[Anna Dalos|Dalos]]: Opus 17, [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''...agm...''
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| Early Baroque || {{center|-}} || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants Vocal]] – [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier|Charpentier]]: ''[[Actéon (opera)|Actéon]]'' || [[Reinhard Goebel]] conducting [[Musica Antiqua Köln]] – [[Bach]]: [[List of chamber music works by Johann Sebastian Bach|Kammermusik]] || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants Vocal]], [[Jill Feldman]], Jacques Bona, Sophie Boulin, Phillipe Cantor, [[Agnès Mellon]], Gilles Ragon – [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier|Charpentier]]: ''[[Médée (Charpentier)|Médée]]'' 
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| Early Medieval || {{center|-}} || [[Christopher Page]] conducting [[Gothic Voices]] – [[Hildegard of Bingen]]: ''[[A Feather on the Breath of God]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} 
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| Early Medieval and Renaissance || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Paul Hillier]] conducting [[Hilliard Ensemble]] – [[John Dunstaple|Dunstaple]]: Motets || [[David Hill (choral director)|David Hill]] conducting [[Westminster Cathedral Choir]] – [[Tomás Luis de Victoria]]: O quam gloriosum, Ave maris stella
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| Early Music || Cologne Music Antiqua – German Chamber Music || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Engineering || [[Colin Davis]] conducting [[Royal Opera House]] Orchestra – [[Massenet]]: ''[[Werther]]'' || [[Bernard Haitink]] conducting [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]] – [[Shostakovich]]: [[Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 5]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} 
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| Engineering and Production || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Bryden Thomson]] conducting [[Ulster Orchestra]] – [[Arnold Bax|Bax]]: [[Symphony No. 4 (Bax)|Symphony No. 4]], ''[[Tintagel (Bax)|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 (Ravel)|Valses nobles et sentimentales]]''
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| Historical Non-Vocal || [[Busch Quartet]], [[Rudolf Serkin]], [[Reginald Kell]], [[Aubrey Brain]] – [[Brahms]]: Chamber Works || [[Bartok]]: ''At the Piano Vol. 1'' || [[Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Carl Nielsen]]: [[List of compositions by Carl Nielsen|Symphonies]], [[Erik Tuxen]], [[Launy Grøndahl]], [[Thomas Jensen (conductor)|Thomas Jensen]] || 
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| Historical Vocal || Hugo Wolf Society Lieder || [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]] – Historical Recordings of Lieder || [[Egon Petri]] – Piano Sonatas [[Piano Sonata No. 30 (Beethoven)|No. 30]], [[Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)|no. 31]], [[Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)|no. 32]] || [[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 || [[Alfred Brendel]] – [[Liszt]], [[Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt)|Piano Sonata in B minor]] || [[Emil Gilels]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major]] || [[Jorge Bolet]] – [[Liszt]]: ''[[Années de pèlerinage]]''
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| Operatic || [[Herbert von Karajan]] conducting [[Deutsche Opera]], [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]: ''[[Parsifal]]'' || [[Charles Mackerras]] conducting [[Vienna State Opera]], [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]: ''[[The Cunning Little Vixen]]'' || [[Charles Mackerras]] conducting [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Elisabeth Söderström]], [[Wiesław Ochman]], [[Peter Dvorský (singer)|Peter Dvorský]], [[Eva Randová]], [[Lucia Popp]] – [[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]: ''[[Jenůfa]]'' || [[Bernard Haitink]] conducting [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Thomas Allen (baritone)|Thomas Allen]], [[Carol Vaness]], [[Maria Ewing]], Elizabeth Gale, Keith Lewis, [[Richard Van Allan]], [[Glyndebourne Chorus]] – [[Mozart]]: ''[[Don Giovanni]]''
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| Orchestral || [[Herbert von Karajan]] conducting [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]] || [[Herbert von Karajan]] conducting [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Metamorphosen]]'' || [[Herbert von Karajan]] conducting [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]] || [[Neeme Järvi]] conducting [[Scottish National Orchestra]] – [[Prokofiev]]: [[Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor]], [[Waltz Suite (Prokofiev)|''Waltz Suite'']]
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| Solo Vocal || [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] with [[Daniel Barenboim]] – [[Liszt]]: [[Franz Liszt#Lieder|Lieder]] || [[Kurt Masur]] conducting [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]] – [[Brahms]]: Lieder; solo: [[Jessye Norman]] || [[Kurt Masur]] conducting [[Gewandhaus Orchestra]], [[Jessye Norman]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Four Last Songs]]'' || [[Tom Krause]], [[Irwin Gage]], [[Elisabeth Söderström]], [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]] – [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]]: Complete Songs
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==1986–1990==
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! Category !! 1986 !! 1987 !! 1988 !! 1989 !! 1990
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| Chamber || [[Fauré]]: [[Piano Quartet No. 1 (Fauré)|Piano Quartets No. 1 in C minor]]; [[Piano Quartet No. 2 (Fauré)|No. 2 in G minor]] || Jean-Phillipe Collard, [[Augustin Dumay]], Muir Quartet – [[Ernest Chausson|Chausson]]: [[Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet]] || [[Shlomo Mintz]], Paul Ostrovsky – [[Mendelssohn]]: Violin Sonatas in F minor and F major || [[Emerson String Quartet]] – [[Bartók]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1–6 || [[Kyung Wha Chung]], [[Krystian Zimerman]] – [[Respighi]]: [[Violin Sonata in B minor (Respighi)|Violin Sonata in B minor]]
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| 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 (countertenor)|James Bowman]], [[Aled Jones]], [[Anthony Rolfe Johnson|Anthony Johnson]], [[David Thomas (bass)|David Thomas]] – [[Handel]]: ''[[Athalia (Handel)|Athalia]]'' || [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]] conducting [[Atlanta Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus – [[Verdi]]: [[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]] || [[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 (harpsichordist)|Scott Ross]], Paul Nicholson – [[Handel]]: ''[[Jephtha (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]]''
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| Concerto || [[Bernard Haitink]] conducting [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]], [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Beethoven]]: Piano Concertos Nos. [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)|3]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|4]] || [[Bryden Thomson]] conducting [[English Chamber Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Hummel]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Hummel)|2]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Hummel)|3]] || [[Rudolf Barshai]] conducting [[Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra]], [[Peter Donohoe (pianist)|Peter Donohoe]] – [[Tchaikovsky]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 2]] || [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] conducting [[Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], [[Cho-liang Lin]] – [[Sibelius]]: [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto in D minor]], [[Carl Nielsen|Nielsen]]: [[Carl Nielsen#Concertos|Violin Concerto, Opus 33]] || [[Neemi Järvi]] conducting the [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]], [[Lydia Mordkovitch]] – [[Shostakovich]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)|Violin Concerto No. 1]]
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| Contemporary || [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] conducting [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]] –  [[Witold Lutosławski|Lutosławski]]: [[Symphony No. 3 (Lutosławski)|Symphony No. 3]] || [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] conducting [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus, [[Faye Robinson]], [[Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)|Sarah Walker]], [[Robert Tear]], John Cheek – [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]: ''The Mask of Time'' || [[Elgar Howarth]] conducting [[London Sinfonietta]] – [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum'', ''[[Silbury Air]]'', ''Secret Theatre'' || [[Vernon Handley]] conducting [[Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Simpson]]: [[Symphony No. 9 (Simpson)|Symphony No. 9]] || [[George Benjamin (composer)|George Benjamin]] conducting [[London Sinfonietta]], Penelope Walmsley-Clark, Sebastian Bell – Benjamin: ''Antara'', [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez]]: ''[[Dérive 1]]'', ''Memoriale'', [[Jonathan Harvey (composer)|Harvey]]: ''Song Offerings''
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| Early Baroque Music || [[Davitt Moroney]] (harpsichord) – [[Bach]]: ''[[Die Kunst der Fuge]]'' || {{center|-}} || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[Monteverdi Choir]], [[English Baroque Soloists]], [[Donna Brown (soprano)|Donna Brown]], [[Rachel Yakar]], Howard Cook – [[Jean-Marie Leclair|Leclair]]: ''[[Scylla et Glaucus]]'' || [[Trevor Pinnock]] conducting [[The English Concert]] – [[Corelli]]: ''[[Concerti grossi, Op. 6 (Handel)|Concerti grossi]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| Early Medieval and Renaissance Music: [[Esther Lamandier]] – ''[[Chansons de toile]] au temps du [[Roman de la Rose]]'' || {{center|-}} || [[Christopher Page]] conducting [[Gothic Voices]] – ''The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter'' || [[Gothic Voices]] – ''A Song for Francesca'' || {{center|-}}
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| Early Music || {{center|-}} || [[Peter Phillips (conductor)|Peter Phillips]] conducting [[The Tallis Scholars]] – [[Josquin des Prez|Prez]]: ''[[Missa Pange lingua]]'', ''[[Missa La sol fa re mi]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Paul McCreesh]] conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players – Gabrieli: Venetian Coronation 1595
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| Engineering || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Oliver Knussen]] conducting the [[London Sinfonietta]] – [[Britten]]: ''[[The Prince of the Pagodas]]''
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| Engineering and Production || [[Geoffrey Simon]] conducting [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] – [[Ottorino Respighi|Respighi]]: ''Belkis, Regina di Saba'', ''Metamorphoseon'' || [[Charles Dutoit]] conducting [[Montréal Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Holst]]: ''[[The Planets]]'' || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus, [[Arleen Augér]], [[Janet Baker]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|''Resurrection Symphony'']] || [[Neeme Järvi]] conducting [[Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Eduard Tubin|Tubin]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 3 & 8 || {{center|-}}
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| Non-Vocal Historic || [[Busch Quartet]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Late string quartets (Beethoven)|Late String Quartets]] || [[Busch Quartet]], [[Rudolf Serkin]] – [[Schubert]]: String Quartets, Piano Trio, Fantasia || [[Ginette Neveu]], [[Philharmonia Orchestra]]; [[Walter Susskind]] (conductor) – [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]]: ''[[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]]'' (Recorded 1945), [[Issay Dobrowen]] (conductor) – [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]: ''[[Violin Concerto (Brahms)|Violin Concerto]]'' (Recorded 1946) || [[Bruno Walter]] conducting [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]] || [[Thomas Beecham]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Delius]]: ''[[Paris: The Song of a Great City]]'', ''[[Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)]]'', ''Irmelin'' prelude, ''Over the hills and far away''
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| Vocal Historic || ''[[The Record of Singing#The Record of Singing Volume 3 (1926–1939)|The Record of Singing]]'', Vol. 3 || [[Tito Schipa]] – ''The Art of Tito Schipa'' || [[Chaliapin]] || ''[[The Record of Singing#The Record of Singing Volume 4 (1939 to the end of the 78 era, circa 1955)|The Record of Singing]]'', Vol. 4 || [[Élie Cohen (conductor)|Elie Cohen]] conducting the [[Opéra-Comique]] Orchestra and Chorus, [[Ninon Vallin]], [[Georges Thill]], Marcel Roque, Germaine Féraldy, Armand Narçon – [[Massenet]]: ''[[Werther]]''
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| Instrumental || [[Murray Perahia]], [[Radu Lupu]] – [[Schubert]]: [[Fantasia in F minor (Schubert)|Fantasia in F minor for piano duet]], [[Mozart]]: [[Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (Mozart)|Sonata for 2 pianos in D major]] || [[Alfred Brendel]] – [[Haydn]]: [[List of solo piano compositions by Joseph Haydn|Piano Sonatos]] || [[Pascal Rogé]] – [[Poulenc]]: Piano Works || [[Mitsuko Uchida]] – [[Mozart]]: Piano Sonatas 1–18 || [[Zoltán Kocsis]] – [[Debussy]]: Piano Works
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| Musical Theatre || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[John McGlinn]] – [[Jerome Kern|Kern]]: ''[[Show Boat]]'' || [[John McGlinn]] – [[Cole Porter]]: ''[[Anything Goes]]''
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| 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 (bass)|John Tomlinson]], [[Ambrosian Singers]] – [[Verdi]]: ''[[La forza del destino]]'' || [[Philip Brunelle]] conducting Plymouth Music Series Chorus and Orchestra – [[Britten]]: ''[[Paul Bunyan (operetta)|Paul Bunyan]]'' || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera#History|Glyndebourne]] – [[Gershwin]]: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' || [[Kent Nagano]] conducting the [[Opéra National de Lyon]] Orchestra and Chorus – [[Prokofiev]]: ''L'Amour des trois oranges''
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| Orchestral || [[Bernard Haitink]] conducting [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Sheila Armstrong (singer)|Sheila Armstrong]] – [[Vaughan Williams|Williams]]: ''[[Sinfonia Antarctica]]'' || [[Klaus Tennstedt]] conducting [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] & Choir, [[Elizabeth Connell]], [[Edith Wiens]], [[Felicity Lott]], [[Trudeliese Schmidt]], [[Nadine Denize]], [[Richard Versalle]], [[Jorma Hynnimen]], [[Hans Sotin]], [[Tiffin School]] Boys' Choir – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 8]] || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus, [[Arleen Augér]], [[Janet Baker]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|''Resurrection Symphony'']] || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Chamber Orchestra of Europe]] – [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]: [[Schubert's symphonies|''Symphonies'']] || [[Bernard Haitink]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Felicity Lott]], [[Jonathan Summers]] – [[Vaughan Williams|Williams]]: ''[[A Sea Symphony]]''
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| Period Performance || {{center|-}} || [[Roger Norrington]] conducting [[London Classical Players]] – [[Beethoven]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)|2]] & [[Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)|8]] || [[Trevor Pinnock]] conducting [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] and Chorus, [[Felicity Lott]], [[Carolyn Watkinson]], Maldwyn Davies, [[David Wilson-Johnson]] – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Nelson Mass]]'', Te Deum in C major || {{center|-}} || 
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| 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]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' || [[Lorin Maazel]] conducting the [[Orchestre National de France]] – [[Ravel]]: ''[[L'enfant et les sortilèges]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| Solo Vocal || [[Peter Schreier]] with [[Sviatoslav Richter]] – [[Schubert]]: ''[[Winterreise]]'' || [[Brigitte Fassbaender]] with [[Irwin Gage]] – [[Liszt]]: Lieder, [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: Lieder || [[Olaf Bär]] with [[Geoffrey Parsons (pianist)|Geoffrey Parsons]] – [[Schubert]]: ''[[Die schöne Müllerin]]'' || [[Janet Baker]] with [[Graham Johnson (musician)|Graham Johnson]] – [[Schubert]]: Lieder, vol. 1 || [[Peter Schreier]] with [[András Schiff]] – [[Schubert]]: ''[[Schwanengesang]]'', [[Heine]]: Lieder, [[Seidl]]: Lieder
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| Special Achievement || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]] conducting the [[Concentus Musicus Wien]]; [[Gustav Leonhardt]] conducting the [[Leonhardt-Consort]] – ''Complete Sacred Cantatas'' Vol. 1–45 ([[Bach]])
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==1991–1995==
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! 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]]
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| Baroque Non-Vocal || [[Davitt Moroney]], [[John Holloway (musician)|John Holloway]] – [[Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber|Biber]]: ''[[Rosary Sonatas|Mystery Sonatas]]'' || [[Christophe Rousset]] – [[Rameau]]: Harpsichord Works || [[Reinhard Goebel]] conducting [[Musica Antiqua Köln]] – [[Heinichen]]: Dresden Concertos || [[Pierre Hantaï]] – [[Bach]]: ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'' || [[Harmonia Mundi]] – [[Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber|Biber]]: Violin Sonatas; [[Romanesca]]
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| Baroque Vocal || [[Nicholas McGegan]] conducting the [[Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra]], [[University of California, Berkeley|U.C. Berkeley]] Chamber Chorus, [[Lorraine Hunt Lieberson|Lorraine Hunt]], Drew Minter, [[Jill Feldman]], William Parker<!--baritone-->, Jeffrey Thomas, [[David Thomas (bass)|David Thomas]] - [[Handel]]: ''[[Susanna (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]] – [[Alessandro Stradella|Stradella]]: ''San Giovanni Battista'' || [[Concerto Italiano]] – Fourth Book of the Montev || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]: [[Jean-Philippe Rameau#Motets 2|Grant Motets]]
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| Best-Selling Disc || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[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]]''
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| Best-Selling Record || {{center|-}} || ''Essential Opera'' || [[David Zinman]] conducting the [[London Sinfonietta]], [[Dawn Upshaw|Upshaw]] – [[Henryk Gorecki|Górecki]]: [[Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)|''Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'']] || [[Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta]] conducting the [[Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos#Music in the abbey|Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey Chorus]] – [[Abbey_of_Santo_Domingo_de_Silos#Music_in_the_abbey##Recordings###Gregorian chant|Gregorian chant]]
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| Chamber || [[Jaime Laredo]] conducting [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Isaac Stern]] – [[Brahms]]: Piano Quartets [[Piano Quartet No. 1 (Brahms)|1]], [[Piano Quartet No. 2 (Brahms)|2]], & [[Piano Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)|3]] || [[Carmine Quartet]] – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: String Quartet {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[String Quartet No. 1 (Szymanowski)|1]] & 2, [[Webern]]: ''Langsamer Satz'' || [[Quatuor Mosaïques]] – [[Haydn]]: [[String Quartets, Op. 20 (Haydn)|String Quartets, Op. 20]] || [[Borodin Quartet]], Yuri Yurov, Mikhail Milman – [[Tchaikovsky]]: String Quartets [[String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|1]], [[String Quartet No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)|2]], & [[String Quartet No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)|3]], ''[[Souvenir de Florence]]'' || Domus – [[Gabriel Fauré|Fauré]]: Piano Quintets
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| Choral || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique]], [[Monteverdi Choir]], [[Charlotte Margiono]], [[Catherine Robbin]], William Kendall, [[Alastair Miles]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Missa solemnis (Beethoven)|Missa solemnis]] || [[Richard Hickox]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]] and [[London Symphony Chorus|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]] – [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]]: ''[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elias]]'' || [[Richard Hickox]] conducting the [[Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra]], [[Bryn Terfel]], [[Sally Burgess]] – [[Delius]]: ''[[Sea Drift (Delius)|Sea Drift]]'', ''Songs of Farewell'' || {{center|-}}
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| Choral and engineering || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: [[Stabat Mater (Szymanowski)|Stabat Mater]], [[Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski)|Symphony No. 3]]
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| Concerto || [[Osmo Vänskä]] conducting the [[Lahti Symphony Orchestra]], [[Leonidas Kavakos]] – [[Sibelius]]: [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto in D major]] || [[Jerzy Maksymiuk]] conducting [[BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra]], Nickolai Demidenko – [[Medtner]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[List of compositions by Nikolai Medtner#Concertante|2]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Medtner)|3]] || [[Wolfgang Sawallisch]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Stephen Kovacevich]], [[Ann Murray]], [[Nobuko Imai]] – [[Brahms]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (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 (Bartók)|Violin Concerto No. 2]], Rhapsodies {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1 & 2 || [[Rostropovich]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[Maxim Vengerov]] – [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)|Violin Concerto No. 1]], [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]: Vio
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| 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 (Casken opera)|Golem]]'' || [[Gennady Rozhdestvensky]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[Steven Isserlis]] – [[John Tavener|Tavener]]: ''[[The Protecting Veil]]'', [[Britten]]: [[Cello suites (Britten)#Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87|Cello Suite No. 3]] || [[Jerzy Maksymiuk]] conducting the [[BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra]] – [[James MacMillan|MacMillan]]: ''[[The Confession of Isobel Gowdie]]'', Koch:{{nonspecific|date=October 2023}} Tryst || [[Oliver Knussen]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Robin Holloway|Holloway]]: ''Second Concerto for Orchestra'' || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting [[Ensemble intercontemporain]], [[Saschko Gawriloff]], [[Jean-Guihen Queyras]], [[Pierre-Laurent Aimard]] – [[György Ligeti|Ligeti]]: Concertos for [[Piano Concerto (Ligeti)|Piano]], [[Violin Concerto (Ligeti)|Violin]], and [[Cello Concerto (Ligeti)|Cello]]
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| Early Opera Music || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Henry Purcell|Purcell]]: ''[[King Arthur (opera)|King Arthur]]''
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| Early Music || [[Peter Phillips (conductor)|Peter Phillips]] conducting [[The Tallis Scholars]] – [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|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 (conductor)|Peter Phillips]] conducting [[The Tallis Scholars]] – [[Cipriano de Rore|Rore]]: Missa Praeter rerum seriem || [[Andrew Carwood]] conducting [[The Cardinall's Musick]] – [[Robert Fayrfax|Fayrfax]]: ''Missa O quam glorifica'', etc.
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| Engineering || [[Nicholas Braithwaite]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[William Wordsworth (composer)|Wordsworth]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 2 & 3 || [[Richard Hickox]] conducting [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[London Symphony Chorus|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]], [[London Symphony Chorus|Chorus]], [[Sylvia McNair]], [[Nathalie Stutzmann]], [[Ann Murray]], [[Leslie Caron]] – [[Debussy]]: ''[[Le martyre de Saint Sébastien]]'' || [[Yan Pascal Tortelier]] conducting the [[BBC Philharmonic]] – [[Dutilleux]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Symphony No. 1 (Dutilleux)|1]] & [[Symphony No. 2 (Dutilleux)|2]] || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]] – [[Stabat Mater (Szymanowski)|Stabat Mater]], [[Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski)|Symphony No. 3]]
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| Historical Non-Vocal || [[Anton Webern]] conducting [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], Galimir Quartet, [[Louis Krasner]] – [[Alban Berg|Berg]]: [[Violin Concerto (Berg)|Violin Concerto]], ''[[Lyric Suite (Berg)|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 (Schubert)|String Quintet in C major]] || [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]] conducting the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], Lucerne Festival Chorus – [[Beethoven]]: [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 9]]
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| Historical Vocal || [[Gérard Souzay]] with [[Jacqueline Robin|Jacqueline Bonneau]] – [[Fauré]], [[Ernest Chausson|Chausson]], Airs Français || ''Covent Garden on Record: A History'' || ''[[The Record of Singing#Singers of Imperial Russia|Singers of Imperial Russia]]'', {{abbr|vols.|volumes}} 1–4 || [[English Opera Group]], BBC Theatre Chorus, Orchestra of the [[Royal Opera House]], [[Peter Pears]], [[Joan Cross]], [[Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)|Nancy Evans]], [[Sophie Wyss]], [[Benjamin Britten]] – _''[[Peter Grimes]]'', ''[[The Rape of Lucretia]]'', Folksong Arrangements || [[Ernest Bour]] conducting the French Radio National [[Orchestre National de France|Orchestra]] and Chorus –  [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]: ''[[L'enfant et les sortileges]]''
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| Instrumental || Tatyana Nikolaieva – [[Shostakovich]]: [[24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)|24 Preludes and Fugues]] || [[Olli Mustonen]] – [[Preludes, Op. 31 (Alkan)|Preludes, Op. 31]], [[Shostakovich]]: [[24 Preludes (Shostakovich)|24 Preludes]] || [[Shura Cherkassky]] – 80th Birthday Recital || [[Krystian Zimerman]] – [[Debussy]]: ''[[Préludes (Debussy)|Préludes]]'' || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]: [[Ballades (Chopin)|Four Ballades]], [[Mazurkas (Chopin)|Mazurkas]], [[Études (Chopin)|Études]], [[Nocturnes (Chopin)|Nocturnes]]
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Joan Sutherland]] || [[Georg Solti]] || [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] || [[Klaus Tennstedt]] || [[Michael Tippett]]
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| Music Theatre || [[Into the Woods#Original London production|Original London Cast]] – [[Stephen Sondheim|Sondheim]]: ''[[Into the Woods]]'' || [[Leonard Bernstein]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[London Symphony Chorus|Chorus]], [[Jerry Hadley]], [[June Anderson]] – Bernstein: ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]'' || [[Eric Stern]], [[Lara Teeter]], [[Ann Morrison]] – [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]: ''[[Lady, Be Good (musical)|Lady, Be Good!]]'' || [[Michael Tilson Thomas]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Bernstein]]: ''[[On the Town (musical)|On the Town]]''|| I wish it so – The Songs of Vernon Duke; Dawn Upshaw (soprano); orchestra / [[Eric Stern]] conducting [[Dawn Upshaw]], orchestra – [[Vernon Duke|Duke]]: ''The Songs of Vernon Duke'' ("I Wish It So") 
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| 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 – [[Francis Poulenc|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 – [[William Walton|Walton]]: ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]''
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| Orchestral || [[Herbert Blomstedt]] conducting the [[San Francisco Symphony]], Kevin McMillan, Fromm,{{nonspecific|date=October 2023}} – [[Carl Nielsen|Nielsen]]: [[Symphony No. 2 (Nielsen)|"The Four Temperaments"]], [[Symphony No. 3 (Nielsen)|Sinfonia Espansiva]] || [[Georg Solti]] conducting the [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Hildegard Behrens]], [[Plácido Domingo]], Reinhild Runkel, [[José van Dam]], [[Júlia Várady]], [[Sumi Jo]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Die Frau ohne Schatten]]'' || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra]] – [[Hindemith]]: [[Kammermusik (Hindemith)|Kammermusik]] || [[David Zinman]] conducting the [[Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Charles Koechlin|Koechlin]]: ''[[The Jungle Book#Adaptations|The Jungle Book]]'', Symphonic Poems || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Birmingham Contemporary Music Group]], [[Phyllis Bryn-Julson]] –  [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]]: [[Chamber Symphony No. 1 (Schoenberg)|Chamber Symphony No. 1]], ''[[Erwartung]]''
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| Record of the Year || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting [[Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique]], [[Monteverdi Choir]], [[Charlotte Margiono]], [[Catherine Robbin]], William Kendall, [[Alastair Miles]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Missa solemnis (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 (Debussy)|Préludes]]'' (Instrumental) || [[Mstislav Rostropovich]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[Maxim Vengerov]] – [[Prokofiev]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)|Violin Concerto No. 1]], [[Shostakovich]]: Vio (Concerto)
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| 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 (pianist)|John Browning]] – [[Samuel Barber|Barber]]: Complete Songs || [[Bryn Terfel]] with [[Malcolm Martineau]] – [[Schubert]]: Lieder
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| 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]]''
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| Video || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[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 (musical)|On the Town]]'' || ''The Art of Conducting – Great Conductors of the Past''
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| Young Artist of the Year || {{center|-}} || [[Bryn Terfel]] || [[Sarah Chang]] || [[Maxim Vengerov]] || {{center|-}}
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==1996–2000==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Category !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000
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| 20th-Century Chamber || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Arditti Quartet]] – [[Elliott Carter|Carter]]: String Quartets || {{center|-}}
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| 20th-Century Concerto || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Krystian Zimerman]] – [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]: Piano Concertos
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| 20th-Century Instrumental || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || Various artists – [[Luciano Berio|Berio]]: ''[[Sequenza]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| 20th-Century Opera || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Ulf Schirmer]] – [[Carl Nielsen|Nielsen]]: ''[[Maskarade]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| 20th-Century Orchestral || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Riccardo Chailly]] – [[Edgar Varèse|Varèse]]: Complete Orchestral Works || {{center|-}}
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| 20th-Century Vocal || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Matthias Goerne]] with Eric Schneider – [[Hanns Eisler|Eisler]]: ''Hollywood Songbook'' || {{center|-}}
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| Artist of the Year || [[Anne Sofie von Otter]] || [[Yo-Yo Ma]] || [[Riccardo Chailly]] || [[Martha Argerich]] || [[Antonio Pappano]]
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| Baroque Instrumental || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || Carole Cerasi – [[Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre|Jacquet de la Guerre]]:  ''Premier livre'' || [[Richard Egarr]], [[Andrew Manze]] – [[Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (musician)|Pandolfi]]: Violin Sonatas [[Opus number|Opuses]] [[Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (musician)#6 Sonatas for Violin & Continuo, Opus 3|3]] & [[Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (musician)#6 Sonatas for Violin & Continuo, Opus 4|4]]
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| Baroque Non-Vocal || [[Giovanni Antonini]] conducting [[Il Giardino Armonico]], [[Christophe Coin]] – [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: ''Il Proteo'', Double, Triple Concertos || [[Phantasm (music group)|Phantasm]], Susanna Pell, Joanna Levine – [[Henry Purcell|Purcell]]: ''Fantazias'' || [[Christophe Rousset]] conducting [[Les Talens Lyriques]] – [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]: Overtures || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Baroque Vocal || [[Chiara Banchini]] conducting the [[Harmonia Mundi]], Ensemble 415, [[Andreas Scholl]] – [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: [[Stabat Mater (Vivaldi)|Stabat Mater]], Cessate, omai cessate || [[René Jacobs]] conducting [[Harmonia Mundi]], [[Schola Cantorum Basiliensis]] – [[Antonio Caldara|Caldara]]: ''Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo'' || [[Rinaldo Alessandrini]] conducting [[Concerto Italiano]] – [[Claudio Monteverdi|Monteverdi]] || [[René Jacobs]] conducting [[Harmonia Mundi]] – [[Alessandro Scarlatti|Scarlatti]]: ''Il primo omicidio'' || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]: ''[[Acis and Galatea (Handel)|Acis and Galatea]]''
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| 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]] – ''[[Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| [[Britannia Music Club|Britannia Music]] Members' Award || {{center|-}} || [[Paul Daniel]] conducting the Chorus and [[Orchestra of Opera North]], [[Bryn Terfel]] – ''Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel sings [[Richard Rodgers]]'' (1996) || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Chamber || [[Quatuor Mosaïques]] – [[String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn)|String Quartets, Op. 33]], {{abbr|nos.|numbers}} 2, 3, & 5 || [[Pascal Rogé]], [[Truls Mørk]], [[Chantal Juillet]] – [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]: Violin Sonatas, etc. || [[Takács Quartet]] – [[Bartók]]: String Quartets || [[Florestan Trio]] – [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]: Piano Trios || [[Emerson Quartet]] – [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]] – [[List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich#String quartets|Complete String Quartets, nos. 1–15]]
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| Choral || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting the English Country Gardiner Orchestra, [[Monteverdi Choir]] – [[Percy Grainger|Grainger]]: Songs and Dancing Ballads || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting the [[English Baroque Soloists]], [[Monteverdi Choir]] – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Die Schöpfung]]'' || [[James O'Donnell (organist)|James O'Donnell]] conducting the [[Westminster Cathedral Choir]], [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]], [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]] – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Die Schöpfung]]'' || {{center|-}} || [[Yan Pascal Tortelier]] conducting the [[BBC Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[CBSO Chorus]], [[Lynne Dawson]], [[Ann Murray]], [[Bonaventura Bottone]], Neil Mackenzie, Jason Howard – [[Lili Boulanger|Boulanger]]: ''Faust et Hélène'', Psaume 24, ''D'un soir triste'', ''[[D'un matin de printemps]]'', Psaume 130, ''Du fond de l'abîme''
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| [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] People's Choice Award || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi]], [[Angela Gheorghiu]] – ''[[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]: Heroines''
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| Concerto || [[Lawrence Foster]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] –  [[Emil von Sauer|Sauer]]: Piano Concerto No. 1, [[Xaver Scharwenka|Scharwenka]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|No.|Number}} 4 in F minor, [[Opus number|Op.]] 82 || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Thomas Zehetmair]], Silke Avenhaus – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: Violin Concertos, etc. || [[David Zinman]] conducting the [[Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]], [[Joshua Bell]], [[Samuel Barber]], [[Ernest Bloch]] || [[Charles Dutoit]], [[Martha Argerich]] – [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]: Piano Concertos || [[Leif Ove Andsnes]], [[Norwegian Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Haydn]]: Piano Concertos {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 3, 4, & 11
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| Contemporary || [[Elgar Howarth]] conducting [[The Royal Opera]] – [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''[[Gawain (opera)|Gawain]]'' || [[Pierre-Laurent Aimard]] – [[György Ligeti|Ligeti]]: [[Études (Ligeti)|Études]] || [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] and [[Martyn Brabbins]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], [[BBC Singers]] – ''[[The Mask of Orpheus]]'' || [[Oliver Knussen]] – [[Tōru Takemitsu|Takemitsu]]: ''Quotation of Dream'' || [[Elliott Carter]] – Carter: ''[[Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei]]'', Clarinet Concerto
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| Early Music || [[Orlando Consort]] – [[John Dunstaple|Dunstaple]]: Sacred Choral Works || [[Edward Wickham]] conducting [[The Clerks' Group]] – [[Ockeghem]]: [[Requiem (Ockeghem)|Requiem]] || [[Dominique Visse]], [[Ensemble Clément Janequin]] – ''Canciones y Ensaladas'' || Andrew Kirkman conducting the Binchois Consort – [[Guillaume Dufay|Dufay]]: Missa Sancti Iacobi || [[Davitt Moroney]] – [[William Byrd|Byrd]]: Complete Keyboard Works
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| Early Opera || [[Nicholas McGegan]] conducting the [[Freiburger Barockorchester]], Wilhelmshaven Vocal Ensemble – [[Handel]]: ''[[Ariodante]]'' || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]: ''[[Hippolyte et Aricie]]'' || [[William Christie (musician)|William Christie]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]], ''[[Les fêtes d'Hébé]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Editor's Choice || {{center|-}} || [[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 (company)|Naxos]]'s British music series || {{center|-}}
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| Engineering || [[Osmo Vänskä]] conducting the [[Lahti Symphony Orchestra]] –  [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]]: [[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No 5]], ''[[En saga]]'' || [[Richard Hickox]] conducting the [[London Symphony Chorus]], [[London Symphony Orchestra|Orchestra]] – [[George Dyson (composer)|Dyson]]: ''[[The Canterbury Pilgrims (Dyson)|The Canterbury Pilgrims]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Film Music || {{center|-}} || [[Joel McNeely]] conducting the [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]] – [[Bernard Herrmann|Herrmann]]: ''[[Vertigo (soundtrack)|Vertigo]]'' || [[Kenneth Alwyn]] conducting the [[Royal Ballet Sinfonia]] – Alwyn: ''The Ladykillers: Music from Those Glorious Ealing Films'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Historic Non-Vocal || [[Walter Gieseking]] – [[Debussy]]: Complete Piano Works || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Historic Vocal || [[Lucrezia Bori]] – Bori: Opera and Operetta Arias (restored by [[Ward Marston]]) || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Instrumental || [[Mikhail Pletnev]] – [[Domenico Scarlatti|Scarlatti]]: Keyboard Sonatas || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Handel]], [[Domenico Scarlatti|Scarlatti]]: Keyboard Suites and Sonatas || [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Federico Mompou|Mompou]] || [[Arcadi Volodos]] – ''Arcadi Volodos Live at [[Carnegie Hall]]'' || [[Marc-André Hamelin]] – [[Leopold Godowsky|Godowsky]]: ''The Complete Studies on [[Chopin]]'s [[Études (Chopin)|Études]]''
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Yehudi Menuhin]] || [[Mstislav Rostropovich]] || Menahem Pressler || [[Isaac Stern]] || [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]]
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| Music Theatre || [[Eric Stern]] conducting the [[Orchestra of St. Luke's]] – [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]: ''[[Oh, Kay!]]'' || [[John Owen Edwards]] conducting the [[National Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Alan Jay Lerner|Lerner]] & [[Frederick Loewe|Loewe]]: ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' || [[Rob Fisher (conductor)|Rob Fisher]], [[Chicago (musical)#Original Broadway production|Broadway  cast]] – [[John Kander|Kander]] & [[Fred Ebb|Ebb]]: ''[[Chicago (musical)|Chicago]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Opera || [[Valery Gergiev]] conducting the [[Kirov Opera]] – [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: ''[[The Fiery Angel (opera)|The Fiery Angel]]'' || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[London Voices]] – [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]: ''[[La rondine]]'' || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[La Scala]] Chorus and Orchestra – [[Gioacchino Rossini|Rossini]]: ''[[Il turco in Italia]]'' ||  [[Charles Mackerras]] – [[Antonín Dvořák]]: ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[CBSO Chorus]], [[CBSO Youth Orchestra]], [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: ''[[King Roger (opera)|King Roger]]'', [[Symphony No. 4 (Szymanowski)|Symphony No. 4]]
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| Orchestral || [[Franz Welser-Möst]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Franz Schmidt (composer)|Schmidt]]: [[Symphony No. 4 (Franz Schmidt)|Symphony No. 4]], ''Variations on a Hussar Song'' || [[Colin Davis]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Sibelius]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius)|1]] & [[Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius)|2]] || [[Iván Fischer]] conducting the [[Budapest Festival Orchestra]], Hungarian Radio Chorus – [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]]: ''[[The Miraculous Mandarin]]'' || [[Günter Wand]] – [[Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 4]] || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major]]
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| Recital || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[James Levine]], [[Renée Fleming]] – Fleming: "I Want Magic" || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi]], [[Angela Gheorghiu]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]: ''Verdi: Heroines''
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| Record of the Year || [[Lawrence Foster]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] –  [[Emil von Sauer|Sauer]]: Piano Concerto No. 1, [[Xaver Scharwenka|Scharwenka]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|No.|Number}} 4 in F minor, [[Opus number|Op.]] 82 (Concerto) || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[London Voices]] – [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]: ''[[La rondine]]'' (Opera) || [[James O'Donnell (organist)|James O'Donnell]] conducting the [[Westminster Cathedral Choir]], [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]], [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]] – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Die Schöpfung]]'' (Choral) || [[Charles Mackerras]] – [[Antonín Dvořák]]: ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' (Opera) || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major]] (Orchestral)
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| Retailer of the Year || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[HMV]] and Bath Compact Disc
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| Solo Vocal || [[Ian Bostridge]] with [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]], [[Graham Johnson (musician)|Graham Johnson]] – [[Schubert]]: Lieder, Vol. 25, ''[[Die schöne Müllerin]]'' || [[Christine Schäfer]] with [[Graham Johnson (musician)|Graham Johnson]] – [[Schumann]]: Complete Lieder, Vol. 1 || [[Ian Bostridge]] with [[Julius Drake]] – [[Schumann]] || Stephan Genz with [[Roger Vignoles]] – [[Beethoven]]: Lieder || {{center|-}}
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| Special Achievement || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Philips Records]]'s ''[[Great Pianists of the 20th Century]]'' || [[Hans Knappertsbusch]] conducting the [[Bayreuth Festival Orchestra]] and Chorus -[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]: ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' 
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| Video || [[Yehudi Menuhin]] – ''The Violin of the Century'' || [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Alban Berg|Berg]]: ''[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Vocal || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Antonio Pappano]], [[Barbara Bonney]] – ''Diamonds in the Snow'' 
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| Young Artist of the Year || [[David Pyatt]] || [[Ewa Kupiec]], [[Isabelle Faust]] – [[Bartók]]: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, [[Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)|Sonata for Solo Violin]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} 
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==2001–2005==
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| Artist of the Year || [[Cecilia Bartoli]] || [[Maxim Vengerov]] || [[Marin Alsop]] || [[Magdalena Kožená]] || [[Michael Tilson Thomas]]
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| Baroque Instrumental || [[Trevor Pinnock]] – [[Bach]]: [[Partitas for keyboard (Bach)|Partitas for keyboard]] || [[Monica Huggett]], [[Thomas Guthrie (director)|Thomas Guthrie]] – [[Heinrich Ignaz Biber|Biber]]: Violin Sonatas {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 2, 3, 5 & 7, Nisi Dominus, Passacaglia, Sonnerie ||[[Rachel Podger]] conducting the Arte dei Suonatori – [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: ''[[La stravaganza]]''
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| 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 (Bach)|Evangelist]]'' || [[Konrad Junghänel]] conducting the [[Concerto Palatino]], [[Cantus Cölln]] – [[Claudio Monteverdi|Monteverdi]]: ''[[Selva morale e spirituale]]'' || [[Emmanuelle Haïm]] conducting the [[Le Concert d'Astrée]] – [[Handel]]: Arcadian Duets || [[Rinaldo Alessandrini]] conducting the [[Concerto Italiano]] – [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: ''Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine'' || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting the [[Monteverdi Choir|Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra]] – [[Bach]] ''[[Bach cantata|Cantata]]s'' Vol. 1
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| Chamber || Phantasy Quintet, [[Maggini Quartet]], Garfield Jackson – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Williams]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1 & 2 || [[Takács Quartet]] – [[Beethoven]] Three String Quartets, [[String Quartets, Op. 59 (Beethoven)|String Quartets, Op. 59]], String Quartet in E-flat, [[String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven)|"Harp"]] || Zehetmair Quartet – [[Schumann]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1 & 3 || [[Takács Quartet]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[String Quartets, Op. 18 (Beethoven)|String Quartets, Op. 18]] || [[Takács Quartet]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Late string quartets (Beethoven)|Late string quartets]]
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| Choral || [[Stephen Layton]] conducting [[Polyphony (choir)|Polyphony]] – [[Britten]]: Choral Dances from ''[[Gloriana]]'', "Chorale after an Old French Carol", ''A Hymn to the Virgin'', ''[[Sacred and Profane (Britten)|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]] – [[Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Hummel]]: Masses || {{center|-}} || [[René Jacobs]] conducting the [[RIAS Kammerchor]], [[Freiburger Barockorchester]] – [[Haydn]]: [[The Seasons (Haydn)|''The Seasons'']]
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| [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] Listeners' Choice Award || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Cecilia Bartoli]] || [[Bryn Terfel]] || [[Plácido Domingo]]
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| [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] People's Choice Award || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi]], [[Angela Gheorghiu]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]: ''Verdi: Heroines'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Concerto || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting the [[Cleveland Orchestra]], [[Mitsuko Uchida]] – [[Schoenberg]]: [[Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)|Piano Concerto]] || [[Sakari Oramo]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra || [[Han-na Chang]], [[Antonio Pappano]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]] -- [[Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev)]], [[Cello Sonata (Prokofiev)]]|| [[Mariss Jansons]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] – [[Grieg]]: [[Piano Concerto (Grieg)|Piano Concerto]], [[Schumann]]: [[Piano Concerto (Schumann)|Piano Concerto]] || [[Krystian Zimerman]], [[Leif Ove Andsnes]], [[Hélène Grimaud]], [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez]] – [[Bartók]] Piano Concertos {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1–3 
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| Contemporary || [[Pierre Boulez]] conducting the [[Ensemble intercontemporain]] – Boulez: ''[[Anthèmes]] II'', ''[[Messagesquisse]]'', ''[[Incises|Sur incises]]'' || [[Reinbert de Leeuw]] conducting the [[Arditti Quartet]], [[Nash Ensemble]], [[Claron McFadden]] – [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''Pulse Shadows'' || [[Ensemble Modern]] – [[Steve Reich|Reich]]: ''[[City Life (music)|City Life]]'' || [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Adès]]: ''[[America: A Prophecy]]'' || [[Ensemble Modern]] – [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''[[Earth Dances]]''
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| Debut Recording || [[Belcea Quartet]] – [[Debussy]]: [[String Quartet (Debussy)|String Quartet]], [[Ravel]]: [[List of compositions by Maurice Ravel|String Quartets]], [[Dutilleux]]: [[List of compositions by Henri Dutilleux|String Quartets]] || [[Jonathan Lemalu]] with [[Roger Vignoles]] – Songs by [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Fauré]], [[Gerald Finzi|Finzi]], etc. || [[Simon Trpceski]] – Piano works by [[Prokofiev]], [[Scriabin]], [[Stravinsky]], [[Tchaikovsky]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| DVD || [[Sylvain Cambreling]] conducting [[Staatskapelle Dresden]], [[Vesselina Kasarova]], [[Willard White]] – [[Hector Berlioz|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 (composer)|John Adams]]: ''[[El Niño (opera)|El Niño]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] directing the [[Monteverdi Choir]], [[Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique]] – [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]: ''[[Les Troyens]]''
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| Early Music || Claudio Cavina conducting [[La Venexiana]] – [[Carlo Gesualdo|Gesualdo]]: ''[[List of compositions by Carlo Gesualdo#Book IV (Madrigali libro quarto), op. 5, five voices. (Ferrara, 1596)|Madrigali libro quarto]]'' || [[Rinaldo Alessandrini]] conducting [[Concerto Italiano]] – [[Luca Marenzio|Marenzio]]: Madrigals || [[Orlando Consort]] – ''The Call of the Phoenix: Rare 15th-century English Church Music'' || [[Phantasm (music group)|Phantasm]] – [[Orlando Gibbons|Gibbons]]: [[List of compositions by Orlando Gibbons#Consort songs|Viol consort]] || [[Peter Phillips (conductor)|Peter Phillips]] conducting [[The Tallis Scholars]] – [[John Browne (composer)|John Browne]]: Music from the [[Eton Choir Book]]
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| Editor's Choice || [[Christopher Hogwood]] conducting the [[Academy of Ancient Music]], [[Cecilia Bartoli]], [[David Daniels (countertenor)|David Daniels]] – [[Handel]]: ''[[Rinaldo (opera)|Rinaldo]]'' || [[Marek Janowski]] conducting the [[Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin)|Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Soile Isokoski]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Four Last Songs]]'' || [[Simon Trpceski]] – Piano Works by [[Prokofiev]], [[Scriabin]], [[Stravinsky]], [[Tchaikovsky]] || {{center|-}} || [[Andrew Litton]] conducting the [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Rachmaninoff]]: [[List of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff#Piano & Orchestra|Piano Concertos]], ''[[Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini]]''
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| Historic Archive || {{center|-}} || ''Great Conductors of the 20th Century: [[Ferenc Fricsay]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Historic Reissue || {{center|-}} || [[Germaine Thyssens-Valentin]] – [[Fauré]]: [[Piano music of Gabriel Fauré#Nocturnes|Nocturnes]] || {{center|-}} || Édouard Lindenberg, [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Duparc]] conducting the [[Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire]], [[Gérard Souzay]], [[Jacqueline Robin|Jacqueline Bonneau]] – Mélodies by [[Ernest Chausson|Chausson]], [[Debussy]], [[Ravel]] || {{center|-}}
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| Instrumental || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Bach]]: ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'' || [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] – [[Grieg]]: ''[[Lyric Pieces]]'' (excerpts) || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Chopin]]: [[Études (Chopin)|12 Études]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Label of the Year || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Harmonia Mundi]] || [[Telarc]] || [[Naxos Records|Naxos]]
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Victoria de los Ángeles]] || [[Mirella Freni]] || [[Leontyne Price]] || [[London Symphony Orchestra]] || [[Marilyn Horne]]
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| Opera || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[La Monnaie]] Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, [[Angela Gheorghiu]], [[Roberto Alagna]] – [[Jules Massenet|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 (mezzo-soprano)|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 (opera)|The Turn of the Screw]]'' || [[René Jacobs]] conducting the [[Concerto Köln]], [[Collegium Vocale Gent]] – [[Mozart]]: ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| Orchestral || [[Richard Hickox|Hickox]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Williams]]: ''[[A London Symphony]]'', [[George Butterworth|Butterworth]]: ''[[The Banks of Green Willow]]'' || [[Günter Wand]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] – [[Bruckner]]: [[Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 8]] || [[Osmo Vänskä]] conducting the [[Lahti Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Sibelius]]: ''[[The Oceanides|Rondo of the Waves]]'' || [[Vernon Handley]] conducting [[BBC Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Arnold Bax|Bax]] – [[Arnold Bax#Symphonies|Symphonies]] || [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]] conducting the [[Concentus Musicus Wien]] – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Paris symphonies]]''
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| 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]] – [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]]: Italian Arias || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Evelino Pidò]] conducting the [[Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France]], [[Rolando Villazón]] – Arias by [[Gounod]] and [[Massenet]]
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| Record of the Year || [[Richard Hickox|Hickox]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Williams]]: ''[[A London Symphony]]'', [[George Butterworth|Butterworth]]: ''[[The Banks of Green Willow]]'' (Orchestral) || [[Sakari Oramo]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto) || Zehetmair Quartet – [[Schumann]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 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|Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra]] – [[Bach]] ''[[Bach cantata|Cantata]]s'' Vol. 1 (Baroque Vocal)
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| Retailer of the Year || Bath Compact Discs || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Special Achievement Award || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Vernon Handley]] || [[Peter Alward]] || [[The Lindsays]]
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| Vocal || [[Magdalena Kožená]] with [[Graham Johnson (musician)|Graham Johnson]] – Love Songs || [[Anne Sofie von Otter]] with [[Bengt Forsberg]], Nils-Erik Sparf, [[Peter Jablonski]] – [[Cécile Chaminade|Chaminade]]: "Mots d'amour" || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
|}

==2006–2010==
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! Category !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2010<ref>[http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/gramophone-awards-2010-unveiled Complete list]</ref>
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| Artist of the Year || [[Angela Hewitt]] || [[Julia Fischer]] || [[Hilary Hahn]] || [[The Sixteen]] || [[Joyce DiDonato]]
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| Baroque Instrumental || {{center|-}} || [[Richard Egarr]] conducting the [[Academy of Ancient Music]] – [[Handel]]: [[List of compositions by George Frideric Handel#Concerti grossi|Concerti grossi]] || [[Trevor Pinnock]] conducting the European Brandenburg Ensemble – [[Bach]]: ''[[Brandenburg Concertos]]'' || [[Fretwork (music group)|Fretwork]] – [[Henry Purcell|Purcell]] – Complete Fantazias || [[La Serenissima (musical ensemble)|La Serenissima]] – [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: "The French Connection
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| Baroque Vocal || {{center|-}} || [[John Butt (musician)|John Butt]] conducting the [[Dunedin Consort]] & Players – [[Handel]]: ''[[Messiah (Handel)#Dublin, 1742|Messiah]]'' || Claudio Cavina conducting [[La Venexiana]] – [[Monteverdi]]: ''[[L'Orfeo]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Chamber || [[Mikhail Pletnev]], [[Lynn Harrell]], [[Nobuko Imai]], [[Ilya Gringolts]], [[Vadim Repin]] – [[Sergei Taneyev|Taneyev]]: Chamber Music || [[Pavel Haas Quartet]] – String Quartets by Haas, [[Janáček]] || [[Artemis Quartet]], [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] – Piano Quintets by [[Brahms]], [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]] || [[Ébène Quartet]] – [[Debussy]]: [[String Quartet (Debussy)|String Quartet]], [[Fauré]]: [[String Quartet (Fauré)|String Quartet]], [[Ravel]]: [[String Quartet (Ravel)|String Quartet]] || [[Isabelle Faust]] – [[Beethoven]]: Sonatas for Piano and Violin
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| Choral || {{center|-}} || [[Simon Rattle]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Berlin Radio Choir]], [[Dorothea Röschmann]], [[Thomas Quasthoff]] – [[Brahms]]: ''[[A German Requiem (Brahms)|A German Requiem]]'' || [[Paul McCreesh]] conducting the Gabrieli Consort & Players – [[Haydn]]: ''[[The Creation (Haydn)|The Creation]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] Award for Audience Innovation || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Tasmin Little]] || [[The Royal Opera]], ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] Listeners' Choice || [[Alison Balsom]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Concerto || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] – [[Rachmaninoff]]: Piano Concertos {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)|1]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)|2]] || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]], [[Nelson Freire]] – [[Brahms]]: Piano Concertos || [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] conducting the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], [[James Ehnes]] – [[Elgar]]: [[Violin Concerto (Elgar)|Violin Concerto]] || [[Ilan Volkov]] conducting the [[BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Britten]]: [[Piano Concerto (Britten)|Piano Concerto]] || [[Mark Elder]] conducting the [[Hallé Orchestra]], [[Thomas Zehetmair]] – [[Elgar]]: [[Violin Concerto (Elgar)|Violin Concerto]]
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| Contemporary || [[Sakari Oramo]] conducting the [[Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Kari Kriikku]] – [[Magnus Lindberg|Lindberg]]: [[Clarinet Concerto (Lindberg)|Clarinet Concerto]] || [[Oliver Knussen]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Julian Anderson|Anderson]]: ''Alhambra Fantasy'' || [[Ilan Volkov]] conducting the [[BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra]], [[Anu Komsi]] – [[Jonathan Harvey (composer)|Harvey]]: ''Body Mandala'' || [[NMC Recordings]] – ''The NMC Songbook'' || [[Thomas Adès]] conducting [[The Royal Opera]] Orchestra and Chorus – Adès: ''[[The Tempest (opera)|The Tempest]]''
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| DVD || [[Leonard Bernstein|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]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| Early Music || [[Andrew Carwood]] conducting [[The Cardinall's Musick]] – [[Thomas Tallis|Tallis]]: Gaude gloriosa || [[Andrew Carwood]] conducting [[The Cardinall's Musick]] – [[William Byrd|Byrd]]: ''[[Laudibus in sanctis (Byrd)|Laudibus in sanctis]]'' || [[Edward Higginbottom]] conducting the [[Choir of New College Oxford]] – [[Nicholas Ludford|Ludford]]: Missa Benedicta || [[Stile Antico (early music vocal ensemble)|Stile Antico]] – Song of Songs || [[Andrew Carwood]] conducting [[The Cardinall's Musick]] – [[William Byrd|Byrd]]: ''[[Infelix ego]]''
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| Editor's Choice || [[Richard Hickox]] conducting the [[BBC National Orchestra of Wales]], [[Gerald Finley]] – [[Charles Villiers Stanford|Stanford]]: Orchestral Songs || [[Ivan Fischer]] conducting [[Budapest Festival Orchestra]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]] || Susanne Heinrich – ''Mr Abel's Fine Airs'' || [[Stephen Kovacevich]] – [[Beethoven]]: ''[[Diabelli Variations]]'', [[Bach]]: [[Partita for keyboard No. 4, BWV 828|Partita No. 4]] || [[Marin Alsop]] – [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]]: ''[[Mass (Bernstein)|Mass]]''
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| The Gold Disc || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Stephen Hough]] – [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]: Piano Concertos  || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Historic Archive || [[Joseph Keilberth]] conducting the [[Bayreuth Festival]] Opera – [[Wagner]]: ''[[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]'' || [[Joseph Keilberth]] conducting the [[Bayreuth Festival]] Opera – [[Wagner]]: ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' || [[Vaughan Williams]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] – Williams: [[Symphony No. 5 (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 5]] || [[Rafael Kubelík]] conducting [[The Royal Opera]] – [[Berlioz]]: ''[[Les Troyens]]'' || [[Friedrich Gulda]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Piano sonatas (Beethoven)|32 Piano Sonatas]], ''[[Eroica Variations]]'', etc.
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| Historic Reissue || {{center|-}} || [[Sir Adrian Boult]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], New Philharmonia – [[Ernest John Moeran|Moeran]]: [[Symphony in G minor (Moeran)|Symphony in G minor]], etc. || [[Erik Werba]], [[Kim Borg]] – [[Sibelius]]: Songs || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Instrumental || [[Piotr Anderszewski]] – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: Piano Works || [[Steven Isserlis]] – [[Bach]]: [[Cello Suites (Bach)|Cello Suites]] || [[Paul Lewis (pianist)|Paul Lewis]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Piano sonatas (Beethoven)|Piano Sonatas]], Vol. 4 || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Label of the Year || [[Virgin Classics]] || [[Deutsche Grammophon]] || [[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]] || [[ECM (record label)|ECM]] || [[Linn Records]]
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Charles Mackerras]] || [[Montserrat Caballé]] || [[André Previn]] || [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]] || [[Alfred Brendel]]
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| Opera || {{center|-}} || [[Riccardo Frizza]] – [[Rossini]]: ''[[Matilde di Shabran]]'' || [[Jirí Belohlávek]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Janáček]]: ''[[The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century|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]]'' 
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| Orchestral || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 6]] || [[Valery Gergiev]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Prokofiev]]: Complete Symphonies || [[Evgeny Svetlanov]] conducting the [[State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation|USSR State Symphony Orchestra]], Russian Federation Symphony Orchestra – [[Myaskovsky]]: [[List of compositions by Nikolai Myaskovsky#Symphonies|Symphonies]] || [[Vasily Petrenko]] conducting the [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic]] – [[Tchaikovsky]]: ''[[Manfred Symphony]]'', [[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]] || [[Charles Mackerras]] conducting the [[Czech Philharmonic]] – [[Dvořák]]: [[Antonín Dvořák#Symphonic poems|Symphonic Poems]]
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| Recital || {{center|-}} || [[Ulf Schirmer]] conducting the [[Munich Radio Orchestra]] – [[Simon Keenlyside|Keenlyside]]: ''Tales of Opera'' || [[Ádám Fischer]] conducting the [[Orchestra La Scintilla]], [[Cecilia Bartoli]] – ''Maria'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Record of the Year || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 6]] (Orchestral) || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]], [[Nelson Freire]] – [[Brahms]]: Piano Concertos (Concerto) || [[Paul Lewis (pianist)|Paul Lewis]] – [[Beethoven]]: [[Piano sonatas (Beethoven)|Piano Sonatas]], Vol. 4 || [[Ébène Quartet]] – [[Debussy]]: [[String Quartet (Debussy)|String Quartet]], [[Fauré]]: [[String Quartet (Fauré)|String Quartet]], [[Ravel]]: [[String Quartet (Ravel)|String Quartet]] (Chamber) || [[Andrew Carwood]] conducting [[The Cardinall's Musick]] – [[William Byrd|Byrd]]: ''[[Infelix ego]]'' (Early Music)
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| Solo Vocal || [[Christian Gerhaher]] with [[Gerold Huber]] – [[Schubert]]: Abendbilder || [[Jonas Kaufmann]] with [[Helmut Deutsch]] – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: Lieder || [[Gerald Finley]] with [[Julius Drake]] – [[Samuel Barber|Barber]]: Songs || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Special Achievement || {{center|-}} || [[Christopher Raeburn (producer)|Christopher Raeburn]] || [[Peter Moores (businessman)|Peter Moores]] || [[Bernard Coutaz]] || {{center|-}}
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| Young Artist of the Year || {{center|-}} || [[Vasily Petrenko]] || [[Maxim Rysanov]] || [[Yuja Wang]] || [[Sol Gabetta]]
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==2011–2015==
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! Category !! 2011 !! 2012 !! 2013 !! 2014 !! 2015
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| Artist of the Year || [[Gustavo Dudamel]] || [[Joseph Calleja]] || [[Alison Balsom]] || [[Leonidas Kavakos]] || [[Paavo Järvi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/artist-of-the-year|title=Artist of the Year|date=17 September 2015|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=24 November 2015|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125044408/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/artist-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| 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 || [[Andreas Staier]] – [[Johann Jakob Froberger|Froberger]], [[D'Anglebert]], [[Johann Fischer (composer)|Fischer]], [[Louis Couperin|Couperin]] || [[Mahan Esfahani]] – [[C. P. E. Bach]]: ''Württemberg'' Sonatas || [[David Watkin (musician)|David Watkin]] – [[Bach]]: [[Cello Suites]]
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| Baroque Vocal || La Risonanza Glossa – [[Handel]]: ''[[Apollo e Dafne (Handel)|Apollo e Dafne]]'' || Lionel Meunier, [[Vox Luminis]] – [[Heinrich Schütz|Schütz]]: ''[[Musikalische Exequien]]'' || [[John Eliot Gardiner]] conducting the [[Monteverdi Choir]], [[English Baroque Soloists]] – [[Bach]]: [[Motets (Bach)|Motets]] || [[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 (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''
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| Chamber || [[Pavel Haas Quartet]] – [[Dvořák]]: [[Violin Sonata (Dvořák)|Violin Sonata]], ''[[String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák)|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 (Schubert)|String Quintet D956]], ''[[String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)|Death and the Maiden]]'' || [[Pavel Haas Quartet]] – [[Smetana]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[String Quartet No. 1 (Smetana)|1]] & [[String Quartet No. 2 (Smetana)|2]]
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| Choral || [[Mark Elder]] conducting the [[Hallé Orchestra]] & Choir, [[Claire Rutter]], [[Susan Bickley]], [[John Hudson (singer)|John Hudson]], [[Iain Paterson (bass-baritone)|Iain Paterson]] – [[Elgar]]: ''[[The Kingdom (Elgar)|The Kingdom]]'' || [[Stephen Layton]] conducting the [[Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge]] – [[Herbert Howells|Howells]]: ''[[St Paul's Service]]'' || [[Mark Elder]] conducting the [[Hallé Orchestra]] & Choir, [[Rebecca Evans (soprano)|Rebecca Evans]], [[Alice Coote]], [[Paul Groves (tenor)|Paul Groves]], [[Jacques Imbrailo]], David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt – [[Elgar]]: ''[[The Apostles (Elgar)|The Apostles]]'' || [[John Butt (musician)|John Butt]] conducting the [[Dunedin Consort]], [[Joanne Lunn]], Rowan Hellier, Thomas Hobbs, Matthew Brook – [[Mozart]]: [[Requiem (Mozart)|Requiem]], ''Misericordias Domini'' || [[Andrew Davis (conductor)|Andrew Davis]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] and Chorus, [[Sarah Connolly]], [[Stuart Skelton]], David Soar – [[Elgar]]: ''[[The Dream of Gerontius]]'', ''[[Sea Pictures]]''
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| Concerto || [[Yan Pascal Tortelier]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], [[Jean-Efflam Bavouzet]] – [[Debussy]]: ''[[Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (Debussy)|Fantaisie]]'', [[Ravel]]: Piano Concertos, [[Massenet]]: Piano Works || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Orchestra Mozart]], [[Isabelle Faust]] – Violin Concertos by [[Beethoven]] and [[Alban Berg|Berg]] || [[Peter Eötvös]] conducting the [[Ensemble Modern]], [[Frankfurt Radio Symphony]], [[Patricia Kopatchinskaja]] – [[Bartók]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|Violin Concerto No. 2]], Eötvös: ''Seven'', [[Ligeti]]: [[Violin Concerto (Ligeti)|Violin Concerto]] || [[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 {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)|3]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|4]]
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| Contemporary || [[Ryan Wigglesworth]] conducting the [[Hallé Orchestra]] – [[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]]: ''Night's Black Bird'' || [[John Storgårds]] conducting the [[Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Colin Currie]], [[Truls Mørk]] – [[Einojuhani Rautavaara|Rautavaara]]: ''[[Incantations (composition)|Incantations]]'', ''[[Towards the Horizon (composition)|Towards the Horizon]]'', ''Modificata'' || [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] conducting the [[Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France]], [[Barbara Hannigan]], [[Anssi Karttunen]] – [[Dutilleux]]: ''[[Correspondances]]'' || [[George Benjamin (composer)|Benjamin]] conducting [[The Royal Opera]], [[Christopher Purves]], [[Barbara Hannigan]], [[Bejun Mehta]], Victoria Simmonds, [[Allan Clayton]]; directed by [[Katie Mitchell]] (stage) and [[Margaret Williams (film director)|Margaret Williams]] (video) – Benjamin: ''[[Written on Skin]]'' (DVD) || [[Sakari Oramo]] conducting the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Nørgård]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1 & 8
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| DVD Documentary || [[Carlos Kleiber]] – ''Traces to Nowhere'' || [[Jerome Hiler]] – ''[[Music Makes a City]]'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| DVD Performance || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting [[The Royal Opera]] and Chorus – [[Verdi]]: ''[[Don Carlos]]'' || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Lucerne Festival Orchestra]] – [[Bruckner]]: [[Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 5]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Early Music || [[Robert Hollingworth]] conducting [[I Fagiolini]] – [[Striggio]]: Mass in Forty Parts || Michael Noone conducting Ensemble Plus Ultra – [[Tomás Luis de Victoria|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 (musicologist)|David Skinner]], [[English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble]] – '''The Spy's Choirbook''
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| Editor's Choice || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia|Santa Cecilia Orchestra]] & Chorus, [[Anna Netrebko]] – [[Rossini]]: [[Stabat Mater (Rossini)|Stabat Mater]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Historic || [[Berthold Goldschmidt]] conducting the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] – [[Mahler]]/[[Deryck Cooke|Cooke]]: [[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10]] || [[Maurizio Pollini]] – [[Chopin]]: [[Études (Chopin)|Études]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Instrumental || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Brahms]]: ''[[Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel|Handel Variations]]'', [[Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 (Brahms)|Six Pieces for Piano]], [[Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119 (Brahms)|Four Pieces for Piano]] || [[Benjamin Grosvenor]] – Piano Works by [[Chopin]], [[Liszt]], [[Ravel]] || [[Steven Osborne (pianist)|Steven Osborne]] – [[Mussorgsky]]: ''[[Pictures from an Exhibition]]'', [[Prokofiev]]: ''[[Sarcasms (Prokofiev)|Sarcasms]]'', ''[[Visions fugitives]]'' || [[Arcadi Volodos]] – "Volodos plays [[Mompou]]" || [[Piotr Anderszewski]] – [[Bach]]: [[English Suites (Bach)|English Suites]] {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1, 3 & 5
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| Label of the Year || [[Wigmore Hall Live]] || [[Naïve Records]] || [[Decca Classics]] || [[Delphian Records]] || [[Channel Classics]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/label-of-the-year|title=Label of the Year|date=17 September 2015|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=24 November 2015|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125042810/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/label-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| Lifetime Achievement Award || [[Janet Baker]] || [[Claudio Abbado]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2012/lifetime-achievement|title=Lifetime Achievement|first=Charlotte|last=Smith|date=25 September 2012|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=24 November 2015|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125040939/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2012/lifetime-achievement|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Julian Bream]] || [[James Galway]] || [[Bernard Haitink]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/lifetime-achievement|title=Lifetime Achievement|date=17 September 2015|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=24 November 2015|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125043033/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/lifetime-achievement|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| Music in the Community Award || [[The Cobweb Orchestra]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Opera || [[David Parry (conductor)|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 (director)|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) – [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]]: ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]''
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| Orchestral || [[Vasily Petrenko]] conducting the [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic]] – [[Shostakovich]]: [[Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 10]] || [[Jiri Belohlavek]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Martinu]]: Symphonies || [[Jiri Belohlavek]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Josef Suk (composer)|Suk]]: ''Praga'', ''[[A Summer's Tale (Suk)|A Summer's Tale]]'' || [[Riccardo Chailly]] conducting the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]] – [[Brahms]]: Symphonies || [[Claudio Abbado]] conducting the [[Lucerne Festival Orchestra]] – [[Bruckner]]: [[Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 9]]
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| Outstanding Achievement Award || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Neville Marriner]]
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| Recital || [[Antonio Pappano]] conducting the [[Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia|Santa Cecilia Orchestra]] & Choir, [[Jonas Kaufmann]] – ''[[Verismo]]'' Arias || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Richard Egarr]] conducting [[Wigmore Hall Live]], [[Iestyn Davies]] – ''Arise, my muse'' || [[Jeffrey Skidmore]] conducting the [[Ex Cathedra]], [[Carolyn Sampson]] – ''A French Baroque Diva''
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| Record of the Year || [[Pavel Haas Quartet]] – [[Dvořák]]: [[Violin Sonata (Dvořák)|Violin Sonata]], ''[[String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák)|American Quartet]]'' (Chamber)
|| Lionel Meunier, [[Vox Luminis]] – [[Heinrich Schütz|Schütz]]: ''[[Musikalische Exequien]]'' (Baroque Vocal) || [[Peter Eötvös]] conducting the [[Ensemble Modern]], [[Frankfurt Radio Symphony]], [[Patricia Kopatchinskaja]] – [[Bartók]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|Violin Concerto No. 2]], Eötvös: ''Seven'', [[Ligeti]]: [[Violin Concerto (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 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 9]]
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| Solo Vocal || [[Gerald Finley]] with [[Julius Drake]] – [[Britten]]: ''[[Songs and Proverbs of William Blake]]'' || [[Simon Keenlyside]] with [[Malcolm Martineau]] – [[Britten]]: Songs of War || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Christian Gerhaher]] with [[Gerold Huber]] – [[Schubert]]: ''Nachtviolen''
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| Special Achievement || The [[Bach Cantata Pilgrimage]] on [[Soli Deo Gloria (record label)|SDG]] || [[Václav Talich]] conducting the [[Czech Philharmonic Orchestra]] – [[Czech National Anthem]], [[Smetana]]: ''[[Má vlast]]'' (Historical [[NRK|Norwegian Radio]] recording in Nazi-occupied Prague on 5 June 1939; remastered by Matouš Vlčinský, [[Supraphon]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.supraphon.com/en/about-us/hot-news/?item=814|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115852/http://www.supraphon.com/en/about-us/hot-news/?item=814|url-status=dead|title=Supraphon 2012 Gramophone Award|archive-date=24 December 2013}}</ref> || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Specialist Classical Chart || [[Miloš Karadaglić]] – ''The Guitar'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Vocal || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Donald Runnicles]] conducting the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]], [[Jonas Kaufmann]] – [[Wagner]]: Arias || [[Jonas Kaufmann]] with [[Helmut Deutsch]] – [[Schubert]]: ''[[Winterreise]]'' || {{center|-}}
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| Young Artist of the Year || [[Miloš Karadaglić]] || [[Benjamin Grosvenor]] || [[Jan Lisiecki]] || Nightingale String Quartet || [[Joseph Moog]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/young-artist-of-the-year|title=Young Artist of the Year|date=17 September 2015|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=24 November 2015|archive-date=6 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206160159/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2015/young-artist-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

==2016–2020==
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! Category !! 2016 !! 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2017|title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017|last=McCarthy|first=James|date=2017-07-31|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=2018-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915205555/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2017|archive-date=15 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> !! 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2018-the-full-report|title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2018: the full report|website=Gramophone|language=en|access-date=2020-01-25|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125033333/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2018-the-full-report|url-status=live}}</ref> !! 2019<ref>[https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2019-the-winners-revealed Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019: the winners revealed!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126221900/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2019-the-winners-revealed |date=26 January 2021 }}, ''Gramophone''</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2019-the-full-report|title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019: the full report|website=Gramophone|language=en|access-date=2020-01-25|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125034852/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2019-the-full-report|url-status=live}}</ref> !! 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2020|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Gramophone|language=en}}</ref>
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| Anniversary Award || [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Artist of the Year || [[Daniil Trifonov]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/artist-of-the-year|title=Artist of the Year|date=15 September 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-date=22 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922013341/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/artist-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Vasily Petrenko]] || [[Rachel Podger]] || [[Víkingur Ólafsson]] || [[Igor Levit]]
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| Baroque Instrumental || [[Rachel Podger]] with [[Jonathan Manson]], David Miller, Marcin Świątkiewicz – [[Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber|Biber]]: ''[[Rosary Sonatas]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/baroque-instrumental|title=Baroque Instrumental|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=29 January 2017|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202220104/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/baroque-instrumental|url-status=live}}</ref> || Adrian Chandler, [[La Serenissima (musical ensemble)|La Serenissima]] – ''The Italian Job'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Baroque Vocal || [[Paul Agnew]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Monteverdi]]: Madrigali, Vol 1 – ''Cremona'' || [[Jonathan Cohen (conductor)|Jonathan Cohen]] conducting [[Arcangelo (ensemble)|Arcangelo]], [[Iestyn Davies]] – [[Bach]]: Cantata {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Cantata No. 54 (Bach)|54]], [[Ich habe genug, BWV 82|82]], & [[Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170|170]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}}
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| Beethoven 250 Award || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Andrew Manze]] conducting the [[Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin]], [[Martin Helmchen]] – [[Beethoven]]: Piano Concerto {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)|2]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)|5]] 
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| Chamber || The Heath Quartet – [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]: String Quartets <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/chamber|title=Chamber|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=12 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912084334/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/chamber|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Silesian String Quartet]] – [[Bacewicz]]: Complete String Quartets || [[Pavel Haas Quartet]], [[Boris Giltburg]], Pavel Nikl – [[Dvořák]]: Quintets [[Piano Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák)|2]] & [[String Quintet No. 3 (Dvořák)|3]] || [[Isabelle Faust]], [[Alexander Melnikov (pianist)|Alexander Melnikov]], Tanguy de Williencourt, Magali Mosnier, [[Antoine Tamestit]], [[Xavier de Maistre (harpist)|Xavier de Maistre]], [[Jean-Guihen Queyras]], [[Javier Perianes]] – [[Debussy]]: [[Six sonatas for various instruments|Les Trois Sonates: The Late Works]] || [[Vilde Frang]], [[Barnabás Kelemen]], [[Katalin Kokas]], [[Lawrence Power]], [[Nicolas Altstaedt]], [[Alexander Lonquich]] – [[Bartók]]: ''Piano Quintet'', [[Sándor Veress|Veress]]: ''Piano Trio''
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| 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]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/choral|title=Choral|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916045810/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/choral|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Masaaki Suzuki]] conducting [[Bach Collegium Japan]], [[Carolyn Sampson]], Olivia Vermeulen, [[Makoto Sakurada]], Christian Immler – [[Mozart]]: ''[[Great Mass in C minor, K. 427|Mass in C minor]]'', ''[[Exsultate, jubilate]]'' || Kaspars Putniņš  conducting the [[Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir]] – [[Pärt]]: [[Magnificat (Pärt)|Magnificat]], [[Nunc dimittis (Pärt)|Nunc dimittis]]; [[Schnittke]]: ''Psalms of Repentance'' || Lionel Meunier conducting [[Vox Luminis]], Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin – [[Dieterich Buxtehude|Buxtehude]]: [[Abendmusik]]en || [[Masaaki Suzuki]] conducting [[Bach Collegium Japan]] – [[Bach]]: ''[[St Matthew Passion]]''
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| Concept Album of the Year || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[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]]) 
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| Concerto || [[James Gaffigan (conductor)|James Gaffigan]] conducting the [[Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Vilde Frang]] – [[Britten]]: Violin Concertos, [[Korngold]]: [[Violin Concerto (Korngold)|Violin Concerto]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/concerto|title=Concerto|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911112541/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/concerto|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Giovanni Antonini]] conducting [[Il Giardino Armonico]], [[Isabelle Faust]] – [[Mozart]]: Violin Concertos {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1–5, [[Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|Adagio]], Rondos [[Rondo in B-flat for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|K269]] & [[Rondo in C for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|K373]] || [[Hannu Lintu]] conducting the [[Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Christian Tetzlaff]] – [[Bartók]]: Violin Concerto {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)|1]] & [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|2]] || [[Vladimir Jurowski]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Glyndebourne Chorus]], [[Allan Clayton]], [[Sarah Connolly]], [[Barbara Hannigan]], [[Rod Gilfry]], Kim Begley, [[John Tomlinson (bass)|John Tomlinson]], [[Jacques Imbrailo]] – [[Brett Dean|Dean]]: ''[[Hamlet (Dean)|Hamlet]]'' || [[Elim Chan]] conducting the [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]], [[Benjamin Grosvenor]] – [[Chopin]]: Piano Concertos
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| Contemporary || [[Andris Nelsons]] conducting the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Barbara Hannigan]] – [[Hans Abrahamsen|Abrahamsen]]: ''[[Let me tell you (Abrahamsen)|let me tell you]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/contemporary|title=Contemporary|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=17 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917134449/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/contemporary|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[George Benjamin (composer)|George Benjamin]] conducting the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Pierre-Laurent Aimard]] – Benjamin: Palimpsests, [[Ligeti]]: ''Lontano'', [[Tristan Murail|Murail]]: ''Le désenchantement du monde'' || [[Pascal Rophé]] conducting the [[Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France]], [[Arditti Quartet]] – [[Dusapin]]: String Quartets {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 6 & 7 || {{center|-}} || [[Thomas Adès]] conducting the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], [[Kirill Gerstein]], [[Mark Stone (baritone)|Mark Stone]], Christianne Stotijn – [[Adès]]: [[Piano Concerto (Adès)|Piano Concerto]], ''[[Totentanz (Adès)|Totentanz]]''  
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| Early Music || [[Andrew Parrott]] conducting the [[Taverner Consort and Players|Taverner Choir & Players]] – [[John Taverner|Taverner]]: ''The Western Wynde Mass''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/early-music|title=Early Music|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916045814/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/early-music|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Phantasm (music group)|Phantasm]], [[Elizabeth Kenny (lutenist)|Elizabeth Kenny]] – [[Dowland]]: ''[[Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares]]'' || Scott Metcalfe, [[Blue Heron (vocal ensemble)|Blue Heron]] – ''Music from the [[Peterhouse partbooks|Peterhouse Partbooks]], Vol 5'' || Luís Toscano conducting the Cupertinos – [[Manuel Cardoso (composer)|Cardoso]] – ''Requiem Lamentations, Magnificat and Motets'' || [[Gesualdo (composer) Paul Agnew]] conducting [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] – [[Carlo Gesualdo|Gesualdo]]: ''Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo''
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| Instrumental || [[Igor Levit|Levit]]: ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'', ''[[Diabelli Variations]]'' [[Rzewski]]: ''[[The People United Will Never Be Defeated!]]''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/instrumental-award-recording-of-the-year|title=Instrumental Award & Recording of the Year|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=1 January 2020|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101203316/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/instrumental-award-recording-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Murray Perahia]] – [[Bach]]: ''[[French Suites (Bach)|French Suites]]'' || [[Arcadi Volodos]] – [[Brahms]]: ''[[Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76|Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes]]'', ''[[Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut, BWV 117|Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut]], ''[[O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118|O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht]] || [[Yuja Wang]] – The Berlin Recital || [[Igor Levit|Levit]] – Complete Piano Sonatas
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| Label of the Year || [[Warner Classics]] || [[Signum Classics]] || [[Harmonia Mundi]] || [[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] || Alpha Classics
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Christa Ludwig]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/lifetime-achievement|title=Lifetime Achievement|date=15 September 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-date=22 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922000500/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/lifetime-achievement|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Kiri Te Kanawa|Dame Kiri Te Kanawa]] || [[Neeme Järvi]] || [[Emma Kirkby]] || [[Itzhak Perlman]]
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| 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]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/opera|title=Opera|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=12 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912041808/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/opera|url-status=live}}</ref> || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || Chœur de la radio flamande, [[Orchestre de chambre de Paris]], [[Hervé Niquet]] – [[Fromental Halévy|Halévy]]: ''[[La reine de Chypre]]'' || [[Maxim Emelyanychev]] conducting the [[Il Pomo d'Oro (orchestra)|Il Pomo d'Oro]], [[Joyce DiDonato]] – [[Handel]]: ''[[Agrippina (opera)|Agrippina]]''
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| Orchestra of the Year || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || [[Seattle Symphony]] || [[Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra]] || [[Philadelphia Orchestra]]
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| Orchestral || [[Andris Nelsons]] conducting the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Shostakovich]]: [[Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 10]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/orchestral |title=Orchestral 2016 |access-date=15 September 2016 |archive-date=12 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912100741/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/orchestral |url-status=live }}</ref> || [[Giovanni Antonini]] conducting the [[Il Giardino Armonico]], Riccardo Novaro – [[Haydn]]: ''[[Symphony No. 60 (Haydn)|Il Distratto]]'', ''Haydn 2032 – No. 4'' || [[François-Xavier Roth]] conducting the [[Les Siècles]], Ensemble Aedes – [[Ravel]]: ''[[Daphnis et Chloé]]'' || [[Sakari Oramo]] conducting the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Rued Langgaard|Langgaard]]: [[Rued Langgaard#Symphonies|Symphony Nos. 2 & 6]] || {{center|-}}
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| Recital || [[Raphaël Pichon]] conducting the [[Pygmalion (ensemble)|Pygmalion]], Arnaud de Pasquale, [[Sabine Devieilhe]] – ''[[Mozart]] & The Weber Sisters''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/recital|title=Recital|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916050300/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/recital|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Maxim Emelyanychev]] conducting the [[Il Pomo d'Oro (orchestra)|Il Pomo d'Oro]], [[Joyce DiDonato]] – ''In War & Peace'' || [[Ottavio Dantone]] conducting the Accademia Bizantina, [[Delphine Galou]] – ''Agitata'' || [[Philippe Jaroussky]] conducting the Ensemble Artaserse – ''[[Francesco Cavalli|Cavalli]]: [[Ombra mai fu]]'' || [[Julien Chauvin]] conducting Le Concert de la Loge, [[Sandrine Piau]]
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| Recording of the Year || [[Igor Levit|Levit]]: ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'', ''[[Diabelli Variations]]'' [[Rzewski]]: ''[[The People United Will Never Be Defeated!]]'' (Instrumental)<ref name=":0" /> || [[Giovanni Antonini]] conducting [[Il Giardino Armonico]], [[Isabelle Faust]] – [[Mozart]]: Violin Concertos {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} 1–5, [[Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|Adagio]], Rondos [[Rondo in B-flat for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|K269]] & [[Rondo in C for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)|K373]] (Concerto) || [[John Nelson (conductor)|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 {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)|2]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 5 (Saint-Saëns)|5]] (Concerto) || [[Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla]] conducting the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], [[Kremerata Baltica]] – [[Mieczyslaw Weinberg|Weinberg]]: [[List of compositions by Mieczyslaw Weinberg|Symphony Nos. 2 & 21]] (Orchestral)
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| Solo Vocal || [[Véronique Gens]] with Susan Manoff – ''Néère''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/solo-vocal|title=Solo Vocal|date=22 August 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=12 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912074332/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/solo-vocal|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Matthias Goerne]] with [[Christoph Eschenbach]] – Lieder und Gesänge ([[Opus number|Op.]] 32), ''[[Vier ernste Gesänge]]'', Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine || [[Marianne Crebassa]] with [[Fazıl Say]] – ''Secrets'' || [[Christian Gerhaher]] with [[Gerold Huber]] – [[Schumann]] || [[Nicky Spence]] with [[Julius Drake]] – [[Janáček]]: ''[[The Diary of One Who Disappeared]]'', etc.
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| Special Achievement || [[BBC Radio 3]] || [[Colin Matthews]] || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} || Robert von Bahr<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2020/special-achievement | title=Special Achievement }}</ref>
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| Young Artist of the Year || [[Benjamin Appl]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/young-artist-of-the-year|title=Young Artist of the Year|date=15 September 2016|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-date=22 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922012818/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2016/young-artist-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Beatrice Rana]] || [[Lise Davidsen]] || [[Jakub Józef Orliński]] || Natalya Romaniw
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==2021–2025==
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! Category !! 2021<ref name="Gramophone_2">{{cite web | title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021 | website=Gramophone | url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2021 | access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> !! 2022 !! 2023 !! 2024 !! 2025
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| Artist of the Year || [[James Ehnes]] || [[Barbara Hannigan]] || [[Véronique Gens]] || [[Carolyn Sampson]] ||
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| Chamber || [[Takács Quartet]], [[Garrick Ohlsson]] – [[Amy Beach|Beach]]: Piano Quintet, [[Elgar]]: Piano Quintet || [[Ébène Quartet]], [[Nicolas Altstaedt]], [[Antoine Tamestit]] – [[Thelonious Monk|Monk]]: "[['Round Midnight (song)|'Round Midnight]]" || [[Ébène Quartet]], [[Antoine Tamestit]] – [[Mozart]]: String Quintet {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[String Quintet No. 3 (Mozart)|3]] & [[String Quintet No. 4 (Mozart)|4]] || [[Isabelle Faust]], Anne-Katharina Schreiber, [[Antoine Tamestit]], [[Jean-Guihen Queyras]], [[Alexander Melnikov (pianist)|Alexander Melnikov]] – [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]: ''[[Piano Quartet (Schumann)|Piano Quartet]]'', ''[[Piano Quintet (Schumann)|Piano Quintet]]'' ||
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| 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 (ensemble)|Pygmalion]] – [[Bach]]: ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' || Sigvards Kļava conducting the [[Latvian Radio Choir]]: [[John Cage|Cage]]: Choral Works || [[Paul McCreesh]] conducting Gabrieli Consort and Players, Gabrieli Roar, Polish National Youth Choir, [[Nicky Spence]], Anna Stéphany, [[Andrew Foster-Williams]] – [[Edward Elgar|Elgar]]: ''[[The Dream of Gerontius]]'' ||
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| 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'' || [[Bertrand Chamayou]] – [[Erik Satie]], [[John Cage]], [[James Tenney]]: Letter(s) to Erik Satie ||
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| Concerto || [[Vladimir Jurowski]] conducting the [[State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia]], [[Alina Ibragimova]], [[Yevgeny Svetlanov]] – [[Shostakovich]]: Violin Concertos || [[Kirill Petrenko]], [[Daniel Harding]], [[Alan Gilbert (conductor)|Alan Gilbert]] conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], [[Frank Peter Zimmermann]] – [[Bartók]]: Violin Concerto, [[Beethoven]]: Violin Concerto, [[Alban Berg|Berg]]: Violin Concerto || [[Martyn Brabbins]] conducting the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]], [[Timothy Ridout]] – [[Elgar]]: Viola Concerto, [[Ernest Bloch|Bloch]]: Suite for Viola and Orchestra || [[Jakub Hrůša]] conducting [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Isabelle Faust]] – [[Benjamin Britten|Britten]]: ''[[Violin Concerto (Britten)|Violin Concerto]]'' || 
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| Contemporary || [[Martyn Brabbins]] conducting the [[Nash Ensemble]], [[Susan Bickley]] – [[John Pickard (composer)|Pickard]]: ''The Gardener of Aleppo'', etc. || [[Cornelius Meister]] conducting the [[Bavarian State Orchestra]] and Chorus – [[Hans Abrahamsen|Abrahamsen]]:  ''[[The Snow Queen (Abrahamsen)|The Snow Queen]]'' || [[Nicholas Collon]] conducting the Finnish Royal Symphony Orchestra, [[Sivan Magen]] – [[Lotta Wennäkoski|Wennäkoski]]: Sigla, Sedecim || [[Hannu Lintu]], Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo conducting [[Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France]], Chorus of Radio France; [[Olari Elts]] conducting [[Orchestre National de France]]; [[Davóne Tines]], [[Anssi Karttunen]], [[Olivier Latry]] – [[Kaija Saariaho]]: ''[[Maan varjot]]'', ''Château de l'âme'', ''[[True Fire]]'', ''Offrande'' ||
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| 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]]: [[Ludwig Daser|Daser]]: Polyphonic Masses || Stratton Bull conducting Cappella Pratensis – [[Jacob Obrecht]]: ''Missa Maria zart'' ||
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| Instrumental || [[Sean Shibe]] – [[Bach]]: Lute Suites || [[James Ehnes]] – [[Eugène Ysaÿe|Ysaÿe]]: ''[[Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe)|Six Sonatas for solo violin]]'' || Nurit Stark – [[Bartók]], [[Péter Eötvös|Eötvös]], [[Ligeti]], [[Sándor Veress|Veress]]: Music for Solo Violin and Viola || [[Hilary Hahn]] – [[Eugène Ysaÿe|Ysaÿe]]: ''[[Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe)|Six Sonatas for solo violin]]'' ||
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| Label of the Year || [[Deutsche Grammophon]] || [[Chandos Records]] || [[BIS Records]] || [[Opera Rara]] ||
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| Lifetime Achievement || [[Gundula Janowitz]] || [[Daniel Barenboim]] || [[Felicity Lott]] || [[Michael Tilson Thomas]] ||
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| Opera || [[Edward Gardner (conductor)|Edward Gardner]] conducting the [[Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra]] and Choir, [[Stuart Skelton]], [[Erin Wall]], [[Roderick Williams]], [[Susan Bickley]], Catherine Wyn-Rogers, [[Robert Murray (tenor)|Robert Murray]], [[James Gilchrist (tenor)|James Gilchrist]], Marcus Farnsworth – [[Britten]]: ''[[Peter Grimes]]'' || [[Kirill Petrenko]] conducting the [[Bavarian State Opera]] – [[Korngold]]: ''[[Die tote Stadt]]'' || [[Edward Gardner (conductor)|Edward Gardner]] conducting the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] and [[London Philharmonic Choir|Choir]], [[English National Opera]] Chorus, [[Robert Murray (tenor)|Robert Murray]], [[Rachel Nicholls]], [[Ashley Riches]], Jennifer France, [[Toby Spence]], [[Claire Barnett-Jones]], [[Susan Bickley]], Joshua Bloom – [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]: ''[[The Midsummer Marriage]]'' || [[Jakub Hrůša]] conducting [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Vienna State Opera]] Chorus, Corinne Winters, Evelyn Herlitzius, David Butt Philip, Jaroslav Březina, Jarmila Balážová, Benjamin Hulett, Jens Larsen – [[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]: ''[[Káťa Kabanová]]'' ||
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| Orchestra of the Year || [[Minnesota Orchestra]] || [[Budapest Festival Orchestra]] || [[Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen]] || [[Czech Philharmonic]] ||
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| Orchestral || [[Paavo Järvi]] conducting the [[Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Franz Schmidt (composer)|Schmidt]]: Complete Symphonies || [[Kirill Petrenko]] conducting the [[Bavarian State Opera]] – [[Mahler]]: [[Symphony No. 7 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 7]] || [[Fabio Luisi]] conducting the [[Danish National Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Carl Nielsen|Nielsen]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)|4]] & [[Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen)|5]] || [[Andrew Manze]] conducting [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Vaughan Williams]]: ''[[Job: A Masque for Dancing]]'', ''Old King Cole'', ''The Running Set'' ||
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| Piano || [[Piotr Anderszewski]] – [[Bach]]: [[The Well-Tempered Clavier#Book 2|''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', Book 2]] excerpts ||[[Mitsuko Uchida]] – [[Beethoven]]: Diabelli Variations || [[Krystian Zimerman]] – [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]]: Piano Works || [[Yunchan Lim]] – [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]: ''[[Études (Chopin)|Études]]'' ||
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| Recording of the Year ||[[Edward Gardner (conductor)|Edward Gardner]] conducting the [[Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra]] and Choir, [[Stuart Skelton]], [[Erin Wall]], [[Roderick Williams]], [[Susan Bickley]], Catherine Wyn-Rogers, [[Robert Murray (tenor)|Robert Murray]], [[James Gilchrist (tenor)|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]] – [[Carl Nielsen|Nielsen]]: Symphony {{abbr|Nos.|Numbers}} [[Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)|4]] & [[Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen)|5]] (Orchestral) || [[Hilary Hahn]] – [[Eugène Ysaÿe|Ysaÿe]]: ''[[Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe)|Six Sonatas for solo violin]]'' ||
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| Song || Vision String Quartet, Tamer Pinarbasi, Henning Sieverts, Tim Allhoff, Itamar Doari, Burcu Karadağ, Rafael Aguirre, [[Fatma Said]], [[Malcolm Martineau]] – "El Nour"<ref name="Gramophone">{{cite web | title='El Nour' – Fatma Said (2021 Gramophone Song Award) | website=Gramophone | url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2021/song | access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> || [[Asmik Grigorian]], [[Lukas Geniušas]] – [[Rachmaninoff]]: "Dissonance" || [[Cyrille Dubois]], Tristan Raës – [[Fauré]]: Complete Songs || [[:de:Konstantin Krimmel|Konstantin Krimmel]], Daniel Heide – [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]: ''[[Die schöne Müllerin]]'' ||
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| Special Achievement || [[Boston Modern Orchestra Project]] || [[Leif Ove Andsnes]], [[Mahler Chamber Orchestra]] – ''Mozart Momentum'' || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} ||
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| Spatial Audio || [[Stile Antico (vocal ensemble)|Stile Antico]] – ''The Golden Renaissance: Josquin Des Prez'' || [[John Wilson (conductor)|John Wilson]] conducting the [[Sinfonia of London]] – ''[[Ravel]]: Orchestral Works'' || [[Georg Solti]] conducting the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Wagner]]: ''[[Die Walküre]]'' || {{center|-}} ||
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| Voice & Ensemble || [[Ludovic Tézier]] with [[Frédéric Chaslin]] conducting the [[Teatro Comunale di Bologna]] Orchestra – [[Verdi]] || [[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'' || [[Jonathan Tetelman]] with [[Carlo Rizzi (conductor)|Carlo Rizzi]] conducting [[PKF – Prague Philharmonia]] – [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]: The Great Puccini ||
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| Young Artist of the Year || [[Fatma Said]] || Johan Dalene || [[Stella Chen(violinist)|Stella Chen]] || [[Yunchan Lim]] ||
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards|publisher=Gramophone Magazine |access-date=29 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729090124/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards |archive-date=29 July 2017 |language=en |url-status=live}}

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