| Baroque Vocal | Stradella, San Giovanni Battista, Marc Minkowski conducting Louvre Musiciens du Louvre (Erato) |
| Baroque Non-Vocal | Heinichen, Dresden Concertos, Reinhard Goebel conducting Musica Antiqua Köln (Archiv) |
| Chamber | Haydn, String Quartets, Quator Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis) |
| Choral | Mendelssohn, Elijah, Kurt Masur conducting Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Teldec) |
| Concerto | Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1, Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra; solo: Kovacevich (EMI) |
| Contemporary | MacMillan, Confession of Isabel Gowdie, Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting BBC Scottish Symphony (Koch Schwann) |
| Early Music | Various artists, Venetian Vespers, Paul McCreesh conducting Gabrieli Consort and Players (Archiv) |
| Engineering | Debussy, Le Martyr de Saint Sébastien, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting London Symphony Orchestra (Sony Classical) |
| Historical Vocal | Various artists, Singers of Imperial Russia vols. 1–4, various artists (Pearl) |
| Historical Non-Vocal | Rachmaninov, Complete Recordings, Sergei Rachmaninov (RCA) |
| Instrumental | Various artists, 80th Birthday Carnegie Hall, Shura Cherkassky (Decca) |
| Music Theatre | Gershwin, Lady, Be Good!, Eric Stern (Elektra Nonesuch) |
| Opera | Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmelites, Kent Nagano conducting Opera de Lyon Chorus and Orchestra (Virgin Classics) |
| Orchestral | Hindemith, Kammermusik, Riccardo Chailly conducting Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Decca) |
| Solo Vocal (Record of the Year) | Grieg, Songs, Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg (Deutsche Grammophon) |
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