| Year | Artist | Performance | |
|---|
| 2009 | Gloria Cheng | Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski | |
| 2008 | Garrick Ohlsson | Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3 | |
| 2007 | Maurizio Pollini | Chopin nocturnes | |
| 2006 | Evgeny Kissin | Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky | |
| 2005 | David Russell | Aire Latino | |
| 2004 | Emanuel Ax | Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35 & 49 | |
| 2003 | Andreas Neubronner & Murray Perahia | Chopin: etudes, Op. 10 & Op. 25 | |
| 2002 | Arne Akselberg & Truls Mork | Benjamin Britten Cello Suites | |
| 2001 | Tobias Lehmann , Jens Schonemann & Sharon Isbin | Dreams of a World | |
| 2000 | Vladimir Ashkenazy | Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 | |
| 1999 | Murray Perahia | Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 And 6 | |
| 1998 | Janos Starker | Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1 - 6 | |
| 1997 | Earl Wild | The Romantic Master - Works of Saint-Saëns, Handel | |
| 1996 | Radu Lupu | Schubert: Piano Sonatas | |
| 1995 | Emanuel Ax | Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 32, 47, 53, 59 | |
| 1994 | John Browning | Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music | |
| 1993 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz - Discovered Treasures | |
| 1992 | Alicia de Larrocha | Granados: Goyescas; Allegro de Concierto; Danza Lenta | |
| 1991 | Vladimir Horowitz | The Last Recording | |
| 1990 | Andras Schiff | Bach: English Suites | |
| 1989 | Alicia De Larrocha | Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola | |
| 1988 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz in Moscow | |
| 1986 | Vladimir Ashkenazy | Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane pour une infante defunte; Valses nobles et sentimentales | |
| 1985 | Yo-Yo Ma | Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites | |
| 1984 | Glenn Gould | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13 | |
| 1983 | Glenn Gould | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | |
| 1982 | Vladimir Horowitz | The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80 | |
| 1981 | Itzhak Perlman | The Spanish Album | |
| 1980 | Vladimir Horowitz | The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 | |
| 1979 | Vladimir Horowitz | The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78 | |
| 1978 | Arthur Rubinstein | Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiest�cke, Op. 12 | |
| 1977 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 | |
| 1976 | Nathan Milstein | Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied | |
| 1975 | Alicia de Larrocha | Albeniz: Iberia | |
| 1974 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz Plays Scriabin | |
| 1973 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz Plays Chopin | |
| 1972 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff | |
| 1966 | Vladimir Horowitz | Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return | |
| 1965 | Vladimir Horowitz | Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin | |
| 1964 | Vladimir Horowitz | The Sound of Horowitz | |
| 1963 | Vladimir Horowitz | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz | |
| 1962 | Laurindo Almeida | Reverie for Spanish Guitar | |
| 1961 | Laurindo Almeida | The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Alemida | |
| 1960 | Arthur Rubinstein | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C and No. 18 in E Flat | |
| 1959 | Andres Segovia | Segovia Golden Jubilee | |