| 1851 |
Johann Debussy |
| 1 |
| 1852 |
HAUSER, Johann Sebastian Bach, London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler |
| 1 |
| 1853 |
BRAHMS |
| 1 |
| 1854 |
Metamorphose String Orchestra & Pavel Lyubomudrov |
| 1 |
| 1855 |
Vivian Roost |
| 1 |
| 1856 |
Serkmusic |
| 1 |
| 1857 |
Jim James & Calexico |
| 1 |
| 1858 |
Ink |
| 1 |
| 1859 |
Courtney Barnett |
| 1 |
| 1860 |
Kirsteen Harvey |
| 1 |
| 1861 |
We The Lion |
| 1 |
| 1862 |
Bebe Stockwell |
| 1 |
| 1863 |
Robert Lester Folsom |
| 1 |
| 1864 |
Billy Hurley & Dylan Flynn |
| 1 |
| 1865 |
Yeemz |
| 1 |
| 1866 |
Evan Honer & Julia DiGrazia |
| 1 |
| 1867 |
The Barr Brothers |
| 1 |
| 1868 |
Steinza |
| 1 |
| 1869 |
Max García Conover |
| 1 |
| 1870 |
New West |
| 1 |
| 1871 |
Seafret |
| 1 |
| 1872 |
David Kushner |
| 1 |
| 1873 |
Kevin Kaarl |
| 1 |
| 1874 |
Leith Ross |
| 1 |
| 1875 |
Rosa Linn |
| 1 |
| 1876 |
Monica Martin |
| 1 |
| 1877 |
Shane Macgowan |
| 1 |
| 1878 |
Hudson Westbrook & Country Never Dies |
| 1 |
| 1879 |
Sienna Spiro |
| 1 |
| 1880 |
Sylvia McNair, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sir Neville Marriner & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 1 |
| 1881 |
Capella Istropolitana, Wolfgang Sobotka & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 1 |
| 1882 |
Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope & I Virtuosi Italiani |
| 1 |
| 1883 |
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan & Edvard Grieg |
| 1 |
| 1884 |
Jean-Claude Casadesus & Georges Bizet |
| 1 |
| 1885 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| 1 |
| 1886 |
Kanon Orchestre de Chambre, Jean-Francois Paillard and Johann Pachelbel |
| 1 |
| 1887 |
Claude Debussy |
| 1 |
| 1888 |
Bach Cello Suite |
| 1 |
| 1889 |
Antonio Vivaldi |
| 1 |
| 1890 |
Mozart |
| 1 |
| 1891 |
Classic Flames |
| 1 |
| 1892 |
Jacques Bernard |
| 1 |
| 1893 |
Yo-Yo Ma, Camille Saint-Saëns, Philippe Entremont & Gaby Casadesus |
| 1 |
| 1894 |
Nic Raine and James Fitzpatrick |
| 1 |
| 1895 |
John Campbell |
| 1 |
| 1896 |
Johannes Helmer Pedersen |
| 1 |
| 1897 |
André Rieu, Johann Strauss Orchestra & Dmitri Shostakovich |
| 1 |
| 1898 |
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 1 |
| 1899 |
Bela Banfalvi & Antonio Vivaldi |
| 1 |
| 1900 |
Patrick Doyle |
| 1 |