| Baroque Vocal | Handel, Giulio Cesare, Rene Jacobs conducting Concerto Cologne (Harmonia Mundi) |
| Baroque Non-Vocal | Rameau, Harpsichord Works, Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre) |
| Chamber | Szymanowski, String Quartets nos. 1 and 2, Carmina Quartet (Denon) |
| Choral | Britten, War Requiem, Richard Hickox conducting London Symphony Orchestra and St. Paul's Cathedral Choir (Chandos) |
| Concerto | Medtner, Piano Concertos nos. 2 and 3, Nikolai Demidenko and Jerzy Maksymiuk, (Hyperion) |
| Contemporary | Tavener, Protecting Veil, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting London Symphony Orchestra; solo: Isserlis (Virgin Classics) |
| Early Music | Various artists, Rose and the Ostrich Feather, Harry Christophers conducting The Sixteen (Collins Classics) |
| Engineering | Britten, War Requiem, Richard Hickox conducting St. Paul's Cathedral Choir and London Symphony Orchestra (Chandos) |
| Historical Vocal | Various artists, Covent Garden on Record, various artists (Pearl) |
| Historical Non-Vocal | Elgar, Elgar Edition Vol. 1, Sir Edward Elgar conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Albert Hall Orchestra (EMI) |
| Instrumental | Alkan, 25 Preludes; Shostakovich, 24 Preludes, Olli Mustonen (Decca) |
| Music Theatre | Bernstein, Candide, Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Opera | Strauss, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Sir Georg Solti conducting Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca) |
| Orchestral (Record of the Year) | Beethoven, Symphonies nos. 1–9, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Teldec) |
| Solo Vocal | Schubert, Lieder, Brigitte Fassbaender and Aribert Reimann (Deutsche Grammophon) |
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