| Year | Artist | Performance | |
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| 2009 | Pacifica Quartet - Elliott Carter | String Quartets | |
| 2008 | Eighth Blackbird | Strange Imaginary Animals | |
| 2007 | Emerson String Quartet | Intimate Voices | |
| 2006 | Emerson String Quartet | Intimate Voices | |
| 2005 | Emerson String Quartet | Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets | |
| 2003 | Kronos Quartet & Dawn Upshaw | Berg: Lyric Suite | |
| 2002 | Takacs Quartet | Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74) | |
| 2001 | The Angeles String Quartet | Joseph Haydn: The Complete String Quartets | |
| 2000 | Emerson String Quartet | Shostakovich: The String Quartets | |
| 1999 | Andre Previn & Gil Shaham | American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin) | |
| 1998 | Emerson String Quartet | Beethoven: The String Quartets | |
| 1997 | The Cleveland Quartet | Corigliano: String Quartet | |
| 1996 | Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Richard Stoltzman | Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios | |
| 1995 | Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger & the Berlin Philharmonic | Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin) | |
| 1994 | The Emerson String Quartet | Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/ Barber: String Quartet Op.11 (American Originals) | |
| 1993 | Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma | Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano | |
| 1992 | Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma & Isaac Stern | Brahms: Piano Quartets (Opp. 25 and 26) | |
| 1991 | Daniel Barenboim & Itzhak Perlman | Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas | |
| 1990 | The Emerson String Quartet | Bartok: 6 String Quartets | |
| 1989 | David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia & Georg Solti | Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion | |
| 1988 | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman | Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios | |
| 1987 | Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma | Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C & Variations | |
| 1986 | Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma | Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F | |
| 1985 | The Juilliard String Quartet | Beethoven: The Late String Quartets | |
| 1984 | Mstislav Rostropovich & Rudolf Serkin | Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38 and Sonata in F, Op. 99 | |
| 1983 | Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman | Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120 | |
| 1982 | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman | Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor | |
| 1981 | Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman | Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) | |
| 1980 | Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) & the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra | Copland: Appalachian Spring | |
| 1979 | Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy | Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano | |
| 1978 | The Juilliard String Quartet | Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings (Complete) | |
| 1977 | David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London | The Art of Courtly Love | |
| 1976 | Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng | Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99 and 2 in E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios) | |
| 1975 | Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng | Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 in D Minor | |
| 1974 | Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble | Joplin: The Red Back Book | |
| 1973 | Julian Bream & John Christopher Williams | Julian and John (Works by Lawes, Carulli, Alb�niz, Granados) | |
| 1972 | The Juilliard String Quartet | Debussy: Quartet in G Minor/Ravel: Quartet in F | |
| 1971 | Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern | Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios | |
| 1970 | The Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble & Philadelphia Brass Ensemble | Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli | |
| 1969 | Vittorio Negri (conductor), E. Power Biggs & the Edward Tarr Ensemble | Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ | |
| 1968 | Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin | West Meets East | |
| 1967 | Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine | |
| 1966 | The Juilliard String Quartet | Bart�k: The Six String Quartets | |
| 1965 | Jascha Heifetz, Jacob Lateiner & Gregor Piatigorsky | Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op.1 #1 (instrumental award) | |
| 1965 | Noah Greenberg (conductor) & the New York Pro Musica | It Was a Lover and His Lass (vocal award) | |
| 1964 | Julian Bream | Evening of Elizabethan Music performed by the Julian Bream Consort | |
| 1963 | Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose | The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario and Guests | |
| 1962 | Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose | Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8/Kodaly: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 | |
| 1961 | Laurindo Almeida | Conversations With the Guitar | |
| 1960 | Arthur Rubinstein | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E Flat | |
| 1959 | Hollywood String Quartet | Beethoven: Quartet 130 | |