| Instrumental (Record of the Year) | Debussy, Préludes, Krystian Zimerman (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Baroque Vocal | Monteverdi, Quarto Libro dei Madrigali, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Opus 111) |
| Baroque Non-Vocal | Bach, Goldberg Variations, Pierre Hantaï (Opus 111) |
| Chamber | Tchaikovsky, String Quartets nos. 1–3, Borodin Quartet (Teldec) |
| Choral | Delius, Sea Drift, Songs of Sunset, etc., Richard Hickox conducting Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; solos: Terfel and Burgess (Chandos) |
| Concerto | Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Simon Rattle conducting City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; solo: Chung (EMI) |
| Contemporary | Holloway, Second Concerto for Orchestra, Oliver Knussen conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra (NMC) |
| Early Music | Rore, Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem, Peter Phillips conducting the Tallis Scholars (Gimell) |
| Engineering | Dutilleux, Symphonies 1 and 2, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Chandos) |
| Historic Vocal | Britten, Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia, Folksong Arrangements, Reginald Goodall conducting Benjamin Britten Orchestra; solos: Cross, Pears, Evans and Wyss (EMI) |
| Historic Non-Vocal | Schubert, Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht, String Quartet, Kurt Reher, Hollywood String Quartet (Testament) |
 Leonard Bernstein Archive Photos | Music Theater and Video | Leonard Bernstein, On the Town, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices (DG) |
| Opera | Britten, Gloriana, Charles Mackerras conducting Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra (Argo) |
| Orchestral | Koechlin, Jungle Book, David Zinman conducting Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RCA) |
| Solo Vocal | Barber, Complete Songs, Emerson String Quartet; solos: Studer, Hampson and Browning (DG) |
| Best-Selling Record | Canto Gregoriano, Coro del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos (EMI) |
| Special Achievement | Richter, The Authorized Recordings, Richter (Philips) |
| Artist of the Year | John Eliot Gardiner |
| Young Artist of the Year | Maxim Vengerov |
| Lifetime Achievement | Klaus Tennstedt |
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