Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The Grammy Award – Best Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:
- From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
- In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
- In 1965 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
- In 1966, 1968 and from 1971 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
- In 1967 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
- In 1969 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance
- In 1970 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical
- In 1991 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
- In 1992 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist
- From 1993 to 2011 it returned to being awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
- From 2012 to 2014 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Solo
- From 2015 the award has been known as Best Classical Solo Vocal Album and is open for albums only (in previous years single tracks were also eligible for the award, although in most cases the awards and nominations went to albums)
Up to and including 2015, the Grammy was awarded to one or more vocal soloist(s). Accompanying musicians, orchestras and/or conductors were not eligible for the award. From 2016, "collaborative artists" (such as solo accompanists, conductors or chamber groups) have also been included. Accompanying large orchestras or multiple instrumentalists, however, remain ineligible. Producer(s) and engineer(s)/mixers of over 50% of playing time on the recording also receive an award.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Renata Tebaldi | Operatic Recital | Maria Callas – Cherubini: Medea Salli Terri – Duets for Spanish Guitar Eileen Farrell – Eileen Farrell as Medea Eileen Farrell – Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde); Brünnhilde's Immolation (Götterdämmerung) | |
| 1960 | Jussi Björling | Bjoerling in Opera | Jaime Laredo – Presenting Jaime Laredo Leonard Pennario – Pennario Plays Nathan Milstein – Four Italian Sonatas Laurindo Almeida – Danzas Glenn Gould – Berg: Sonata For Piano, Op.1; Krenek: Sonata # 3, Op. 92 # 4; Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 | |
| 1961 | Leontyne Price | A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital | Eileen Farrell – Arias in Great Tradition Peter Pears – Britten: Nocturne Salli Terri – Conversations with the Guitar Joan Sutherland – Handel: Arias | |
| 1962 | Joan Sutherland | The Art of the Prima Donna | Eileen Farrell –Bach: Cantasas Nos. 58 and 202 (Bach Aria Group Orchestra) Leontyne Price - Operatic Arias (Rome Opera House Orchestra) Victoria de los Angeles – The Fabulous Victoria de los Angeles Trimble: Four Fragments from The Canterbury Tales (Conant, Russo, Orenstein) | |
| 1963 | Eileen Farrell | Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs | Adele Addison – Foss: Time Cycle Birgit Nilsson – R. Strauss: Salome Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Victoria de los Angeles – Spanish Songs of the 20th Century | |
| 1964 | Leontyne Price | Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess | Anna Moffo – A Verdi Collaboration Netania Davrath – Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Vol. 2 Joan Sutherland – Command Performance Maureen Forrester – 'Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn | |
| 1965 | Leontyne Price | Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo | Regine Crespin – Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete Peter Pears – Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Maria Callas – Callas Sings Verdi Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Schubert: Die Winterreise Joan Sutherland – The Age of Bel Canto: Operatic Scenes Boris Christoff – Tsars and Kings (Opera Arias) | |
| 1966 | Leontyne Price | Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) | Anna Moffo – Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne; Rachmaninov: Vocalise; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Shirley Verrett – Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs Mirella Freni – Mirella Freni, Operatic Arias Galina Vishnevskaya – Mussorgsky: Songs | |
| 1967 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.) | Judith Raskin – 'Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major Janet Baker – Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn (Das Knaben Wunderhorn) Montserrat Caballé – Presenting Montserrat Caballe (Bellini and Donizetti arias) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Schumann: Dichterliebe | |
| 1968 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Volume 2 | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – An Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Beethoven: Songs Adele Addison – Copland: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson Fritz Wunderlich – Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Peter Pears – Schubert: Die Winterreise | |
| 1969 | Montserrat Caballé | Rossini: Rarities | Janet Baker – Mahler: Kindertotenlieder and Songs of a Wayfarer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – 'Schumann: Songs Victoria de los Angeles – Songs of Andalucia Gerard Souzay – Songs of Poulenc Shirley Verrett – Verrett in Opera | |
| 1970 | Leontyne Price | Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 | Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry – A Most Unusual Song Recital (Beethoven, Rossini, Brahms, Reger, R. Strauss) Marilyn Horne – Bach and Handel Arias (Excerpts From Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, Messiah, Rodelina) Halina Lukomska – Berg: Altenberg Lieder Sherrill Milnes – Brahms: 4 Serious Songs Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Britten: Holy Sonnets of Donne; Songs and Proverbs of Blake Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Richard Strauss: Early Songs Beverly Sills – Scenes And Arias from French Opera | |
| 1971 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Schubert: Lieder | Leontyne Price – Prima Donna, Vol. 3 Janet Baker – Death of Cleopatra final scenes, Berlioz: Les Troyens Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry – Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Marilyn Horn – Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder | |
| 1972 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann | Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – An Evening of Duets Cathy Berberian – Berio: Epifanie Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Haydn and Mozart Arias Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart – Ives: American Scenes/American Poets | |
| 1973 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Brahms: Die Schone Magelone | Leontyne Price – 5 Great Operatic Scenes (Verdi: La Traviata, Don Carlo; Tchaikovsky: Onegin; Strauss: Ariadne, etc.) Janet Baker – Elgar: Sea Pictures Jan DeGaetani – Songs by Stephen Foster Anna Moffo – Songs of Debussy Birgit Nilsson – Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder | |
| 1974 | Leontyne Price | Puccini: Heroines | Heather Harper – Berg: 7 Early Songs Cathy Berberian – Berio: Recital 1 (For Cathy) Placido Domingo – La Voce d'Oro Yvonne Minton, Rene Kollo – Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde | |
| 1975 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss | Sherrill Milnes – Amazing Grace (Agnus Dei, Bless the Lord, O My Soul, etc.) Martina Arroyo – There's a Meeting Here Tonight Elly Ameling – Schubert: Goethe-Lieder Marilyn Horne – French and Spanish Songs Julius Eastman – Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King Jan DeGaetani – Crumb: Night of the Four Moons | |
| 1976 | Janet Baker | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder | Joan Morris – After the Ball (A Treasury of Turn-of-the-Century Popular Songs) Victoria de los Angeles – Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Album 2 Cleo Laine – Cleo Laine Sings Pierrot Lunaire and Songs by Ives Elly Ameling – Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 | |
| 1977 | Beverly Sills | Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert | Janet Baker, James King – Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Carlo Bergonzi – Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi Jan DeGaetani – Ives: Songs Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Wolfe: Morike Lieder Marni Nixon – 9 Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg Margaret Price – Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro etc) Barbra Streisand – Classical Barbra | |
| 1978 | Janet Baker | Bach: Arias | Elly Ameling – Schubert on Stage Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Ives: Songs Donald Gramm – But Yesterday Is Not Today (songs by Barber, Bowles, Copland, Chanler, etc.) Luciano Pavarotti – O Holy Night (O Holy Night, Sanctus, Ave Maria, etc) Elisabeth Söderström – Rachmaninov: Songs, Vol. 2 Gérard Souzay – Faure: Songs Galina Vishnevskaya – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 Frederica von Stade – Rossini/Mozart: Opera Arias | |
| 1979 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center | Teresa Berganza – Favorite Zarzuela Arias Maria Callas – The Legend: The Unreleased Recordings Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Wagner: Arias Marilyn Horne – Ravel: Sheherazade Christa Ludwig – Brahms: Spring Rhapsody Galina Vishnevskaya – Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death | |
| 1980 | Luciano Pavarotti | O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs | Elly Ameling – Mozart: Lieder Jan DeGaetani – Ravel: Chansons Madecasses Victoria de los Ángeles – Victoria de los Angeles in Concert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Schubert: Lieder Yevgeny Nesterenko – Mussorgsky: Songs Leontyne Price – Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss Frederica von Stade – Frederica von Stade Song Recital | |
| 1981 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten | Elly Ameling – Mozart: Songs Judith Blegen – Berg: Lulu Suite Jessye Norman – Berg: Der Wein, Concert Aria Kiri Te Kanawa – R. Strauss: 4 Last Songs and Orchestral Songs Frederica von Stade – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer and Ruckert Songs | |
| 1982 | Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland | Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti | Elly Ameling – Think on Me Barbara Hendricks – Del Tredici: Final Alice Teresa Stratas – The Unknown Kurt Weill Frederica von Stade – Ravel: Sheherazade | |
| 1983 | Leontyne Price | Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) | Elly Ameling – Faure: La Bonne Chanson; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis and Ariettes Oubliees Jessye Norman – Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre Kiri Te Kanawa – Mozart: Concert Arias (Andromeda, Il Burbero di Buon Core, Artaserse, Idomeneo, Cerere Placata) Frederica von Stade – Frederica von Stade Live! | |
| 1984 | Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – The Brahms Edition: Lieder Jessye Norman – The Brahms Edition: Lieder Kiri Te Kanawa – Mozart Opera Arias Frederica von Stade – Faure: 18 Songs | |
| 1985 | Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam | Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel | Janet Baker – Mahler's Songs of Youth Kathleen Battle, Håkan Hagegård – Brahms: A German Requiem Jessye Norman – Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection) Kiri Te Kanawa – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major, 4th Movement | |
| 1986 | John Aler | Berlioz: Requiem | Elly Ameling – Belioz: Les Nuits d'Ete Plácido Domingo, Pilar Lorengar – Zarzuela Arias and Duets Marilyn Horne – Marilyn Horne Sings (Offenbach, Cherubini, Saint-Saëns, etc.) Kiri Te Kanawa – Canteloube: Chants 'Auvergne, Vol. 2; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Frederica von Stade for Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été; Debussy: La Damoiselle élue | |
| 1987 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart | Marilyn Horne – Beautiful Dreamer: The Great American Song Book Luciano Pavarotti – Passione Pavarotti (Favorite Neapolitan Love Songs) Teresa Stratas – Stratas Sings Weill Frederica von Stade – Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Vol. II/Triptyque | |
| 1988 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital | Elly Ameling – Soiree Francaise (Debussy, Faure, Poulenc, Franck, Canteloube, Roussel, Chausson, Messiaen, etc.) Arleen Auger – Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Orchestra of Violoncellos Marni Nixon – Copland: 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson Jessye Norman – R. Strauss: Lieder (Including Malven) | |
| 1989 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti in Concert | Arleen Auger – Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert) Jan DeGaetani – Songs of America Christa Ludwig – Schubert: Winterreise Jessye Norman – Handel, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live at Hohenems) | |
| 1990 | Dawn Upshaw | Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky) | Kathleen Battle – Schubert: Lieder Kathleen Battle and Plácido Domingo – Live in Tokyo 1988 Plácido Domingo – Puccini: The Unknown Puccini William Sharp – William Sharp | |
| 1991 | José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert | Elly Ameling – Schubert: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7 Jan DeGaetani – Berlioz: Les Nuits d Ete, Op. 7; Mahler: 5 Wunderhorn Songs and 5 Ruckert Songs Thomas Hampson – Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler, Brahms, Schumann, Loewe, Strauss, Zemlinsky, von Weber) Sanford Sylvan – Adams: The Wound-Dresser | |
| 1992 | Dawn Upshaw | The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.) | Jan DeGaetani – Jan DeGaetani in Concert, Vol. 2 (Brahms, Schumann, etc.) Thomas Hampson – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer; 5 Ruckert Lieder Samuel Ramey – Copland: Old American Songs; Ives: Songs Cheryl Studer – Mozart: Arias Sanford Sylvan – Beloved That Pilgrimage: Songs of Copland, Barber, Chanler | |
| 1993 | Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.) | Arleen Auger – Wolf: Songs to the Poetry of Goethe and Morike Cecilia Bartoli – Cecilia Bartoli: Rossini Heroines Thomas Hampson – Delius: Sea Drift Marilyn Horne – Marilyn Horne: Rossini Recital | |
| 1994 | Arleen Auger | The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart) | Gabriela Beňačková – Dvořák, Janáček, Martinu: Lieder Christa Ludwig – Farewell to Salzburg (Works of Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss) Sylvia McNair – Exsultate Jubilate (Works of Handel, Mozart) Anne Sofie von Otter – Grieg: Lieder | |
| 1995 | Cecilia Bartoli | The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart | Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Songs and Dances of Death (Works of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin, etc.) Peter Schreier – Mendelssohn: Lieder (Der Mond; Reiselied, etc.) Bryn Terfel – An Die Musik - Favorite Schubert Songs (Die Forelle; An Die Leier, etc.) Anne Sofie von Otter – Love's Twilight - Late Romantic Songs by Berg, Korngold, R. Strauss | |
| 1996 | Sylvia McNair | The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell | Roberto Alagna – Roberto Alagna - Operatic Arias (Works of Donizetti, Massenet, etc.) Wolfgang Holzmair – Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis, Op. 24; Heine Lieder Sergei Leiferkus – Mussorgsky Songs (Songs and Dances of Death, The Nursery, etc) Bryn Terfel – The Vagabond (Songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, etc.) | |
| 1997 | Bryn Terfel | Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin | Renee Fleming – Visions of Love - A Collection of Mozart Arias Lorraine Hunt – Phaedra from Britten: The Rescue of Penelope; Phaedra Jennifer Larmore – Where Shall I Fly - Handel & Mozart Arias Sanford Sylvan – Faure: L'Horizon Chimerique Anne Sofie von Otter – Wings in the Night - Swedish Songs | |
| 1998 | Cecilia Bartoli | An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini) | Omar Ebrahim, Rosemary Hardy, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Rose Taylor – Ligeti: Vocal Works Renee Fleming – Signatures - Great Opera Scenes Vesselina Kasarova – Mozart: Arias Anne Sofie von Otter – La Bonne Chanson - Faure Chamber Songs | |
| 1999 | Renée Fleming | The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier, Gounod etc.) | Matthias Goerne – Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Liederkreis, Op. 24 Håkan Hagegård – Hagegard Sings Brahms, Sibelius, Stenhammar Jennifer Larmore – Amore Per Rossini Bryn Terfel – Handel Arias | |
| 2000 | Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff | Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn | David Daniels – Handel: Operatic Arias Matthias Goerne – Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook Ben Heppner – German Romantic Opera Thomas Quasthoff – Schubert: Winterreise | |
| 2001 | Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) | The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, etc.) | María Bayo – Handel: Opera Arias & Cantatas Matthias Goerne – Bach: Cantatas BWV 82, 158 & 56 Thomas Quasthoff – Brahms/Liszt: Lieder Anne Sofie von Otter – Folksongs | |
| 2002 | Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) | Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Gra' Fubbi Miei; Die Questa Cetra In Seno, etc.) | Barbara Bonney – Fairest Isle (Dowland, Campion, Morley, Etc.) Ian Bostridge – Henze: Six Songs From The Arabian; Three Auden Songs Thomas Quasthoff – Schubert: Schwanengesang/Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge Anne Sofie von Otter – Beethoven/Meyerbeer/Spohr: Lieder - Mélodies | |
| 2003 | Renée Fleming (artist), Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus (engineers), Erik Smith (producer) | Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, etc.) | Vivica Genaux – Arias for Farinelli (Porpora, Hasse, Broschi, Etc.) Susan Narucki – Carter: Tempo E Tempi Christine Schäfer – Boulez: Pli Selon Pli Anne Sofie von Otter – Chaminade: Melodies - Mots D'Amour | |
| 2004 | Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter (soloists), Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra | Barbara Bonney – Im Chambre Separee - The Operetta Album Ian Bostridge, David Daniels, and Christopher Maltman – Britten: The Canticles Montserrat Caballé – Songs of the Spanish Renaissance, Vol. 1 Frederica von Stade – Argento: Casa Guidi | |
| 2005 | Susan Graham | Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.) | Angela Maria Blasi and Stella Doufexis – Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs for High & Middle Voice; Verklartes Jahr) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson – Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse) Karita Mattila – Grieg and Sibelius Songs Thomas Quasthoff – A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, etc) | |
| 2006 | Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Bach: Cantatas | Cecilia Bartoli – Opera Proibita Natalie Dessay – Strauss: Amor Carole Farley – Bolcom: Songs Rolando Villazón – Gounod -- Massenet: Arias | |
| 2007 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson | Rilke Songs | Ian Bostridge – Britten: Song Cycles Bernarda Fink and Marcos Fink – Canciones Argentinas Patrick Mason – Songs of Amy Beach Thomas Quasthoff – Consider, My Soul | |
| 2008 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist), John Newton & Mark Donahue (engineers), Dirk Sobotka (producer) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs | Sarah Connolly – Sea Pictures Renée Fleming – Homage: The Age of the Diva Anna Netrebko – Russian Album Rolando Villazón – Gitano: Zarzuela Arias | |
| 2009 | Hila Plitmann (soloist), John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus (engineers), John Corigliano & Tim Handley (producers) | Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan | Cecilia Bartoli – Maria Isabel Bayrakdarian – Gomidas Songs Sanford Sylvan – Charles Fussell: Wilde Anne Sofie von Otter – Terezín: Theresienstadt | |
| 2010 | Renee Fleming | Verismo | Anne Sofie von Otter – Bach Juan Diego Flórez – Bel Canto Spectacular Lorraine Hunt Lieberson – Recital At Ravinia Susan Graham – Un Frisson Français | |
| 2011 | Cecilia Bartoli | Sacrificium | Anne Sofie von Otter – Ombre de Mon Amant – French Baroque Arias Lucia Duchonová – Turina: Canto A Sevilla Vivica Genaux – Vivaldi: Opera Arias – Pyrotechnics Measha Brueggergosman – Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder | |
| 2012 | Joyce DiDonato | Diva Divo | Marianne Beate Kielland – Grieg/Thommesen: Veslemoy Synsk Natalie Dessay – Handel: Cleopatra Andreas Scholl – Purcell: O Solitude Ian Bostridge – Three Baroque Tenors | |
| 2013 | Renee Fleming | Poèmes | Natalie Dessay – Debussy: Clair de Lune Joyce DiDonato – Homecoming - Kansas City Symphony Presents Joyce DiDonato Ute Lemper – Paris Days, Berlin Nights Anne Sofie von Otter – Sogno Barocco | |
| 2014 | Dawn Upshaw | Winter Morning Walks | Joyce DiDonato – Drama Queens Cecilia Bartoli – Mission Christoph Prégardien – Schubert: Winterreise Jonas Kaufmann – Wagner | |
| 2015 | Anne Sofie von Otter | Douce France | Philippe Jaroussky – Porpora: Arias Florian Boesch – Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin Joyce DiDonato – Stella di Napoli Lawrence Brownlee – Virtuoso Rossini Arias | |
| 2016 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall | Mark Padmore (soloist), Kristian Bezuidenhout (accompanist) – Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte; Haydn: English Songs; Mozart: Masonic Cantata Jonas Kaufman (soloist), Antonio Pappano (conductor) – Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album Talise Trevigne (soloist), David Alan Miller (conductor) – Rouse: Seeing; Kabir Padavali Cecilia Bartoli (soloist), Diego Fasolis (conductor) – St. Petersburg | |
| 2017 | Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist) | Schumann & Berg | Magdalena Kožená (soloist), Andrea Marcon (conductor) – Monteverdi Sabine Devielhe (soloist), Raphaël Pichon (conductor) – Mozart: The Weber Sisters Anna Netrebko (soloist), Antonio Pappano (conductor) – Verismo | |
| Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Shakespeare Songs | |||
| 2018 | Barbara Hannigan | Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio | Philippe Jaroussky (soloist); Petra Müllejans (conductor) – Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas Nicholas Phan (soloist); Myra Huang (accompanist) – Gods & Monsters Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) – In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music Dmitri Hvorostovsky (soloist); Constantine Orbelian (conductor) – Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift | |
| 2019 | Karim Sulayman (soloist); Apollo's Fire (ensemble) | Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi | Anthony Roth Costanzo (soloist); Jonathan Cohen (conductor) – Arc Philippe Jaroussky (soloist); Artaserse (ensemble) – The Händel Album Sabine Devieilhe (soloist); Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor) – Mirages Randall Scarlata (soloist); Gilbert Kalish (accompanist) – Schubert: Winterreise | |
| 2020 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry (accompanists) | Songplay | Susan Narucki (soloist) – The Edge of Silence - Works For Voice by György Kurtág Philippe Jaroussky & Céline Scheen (soloists); Christina Pluhar (conductor); l'Arpeggiata (ensemble) – Himmelsmusik Matthias Goerne (soloist); Leif Ove Andsnes (accompanist) – Schumann: Liederkreis op. 24, Kerner-Lieder op. 35 Stephen Costello (soloist); Constantine Orbelian (conductor) – A Te, O Cara | |
| 2021 | Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton (soloists); James Blachly (conductor) | Smyth: The Prison · (Experimental Chorus & Experimental Orchestra) | Stephen Powell (main artist); William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich, Jason Vieaux & the Attaca Quartet (accompanists) – American Composers At Play Nicholas Phan (soloist); Myra Huang (accompanist) – Clairères - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger Brian Giebler (soloist); Steven McGhee (accompanist) – A Lad's Love Cecilia Bartoli (soloist); Giovanni Antonini (conductor) – Farinelli | |
| 2022 | Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann (soloists); Danae Xanthe Vlasse (piano) | Mythologies | Laura Strickling (soloist); Joy Schreier (accompanist) – Confessions Will Liverman (soloist); Paul Sánchez (accompanist) – Dreams of a New Day - Songs by Black Composers Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) – Schubert: Winterreise Jamie Barton (soloist); Jake Heggie (accompanist) – Unexpected Shadows | |
| 2023 | Renée Fleming (soloist) & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) | Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene | Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) - Eden Sasha Cooke (soloist); Kirill Kuzmin (accompanist) - How Do I Find You Will Liverman (soloist); Paul Sánchez (accompanist) - Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here? Nicholas Phan (soloist); Eric Jacobsen (accompanist) - Stranger - Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly | |
| 2024 | Julia Bullock (soloist); Christian Reif (conductor) | Walking in the Dark | Reginald Mobley (soloist); Baptiste Trotignon (accompanist) - Because Karim Sulayman (soloist); Sean Shibe (accompanist) - Broken Branches Laura Strickling (soloist); Daniel Schlosberg (accompanist) - 40@40 Lawrence Brownlee (soloist); Kevin J. Miller (accompanist) - Rising | |
| 2025 | Karen Slack (soloist); Michelle Cann (pianist) | Beyond the Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price | Nicholas Phan (soloist); Palaver Strings (ensemble) - A Change Is Gonna Come Fotina Naumenko (soloist); Marika Bournaki (pianist) - Newman: Bespoke Songs Will Liverman (soloist); Jonathan King (pianist) - Show Me The Way Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor of Il Pomo d'Oro) - Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder | |
| 2026 | Amanda Forsythe (soloist); Robert Mealy, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs (conductors, Boston Early Music Festival) | Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias For Soprano | Alison Charney (soloist); Benjamin Loeb (conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra) - Alike - My Mother's Dream Sidney Outlaw (soloist); Warren Jones (pianist) - Black Pierrot Devony Smith (soloist); Danny Zelibor (pianist); Michael Nicolas (accompanist) - In This Short Life Susan Narucki (soloist); Curtis Macomber (accompanist) - Kurtág: Kafka Fragments Theo Hoffman (soloist); Steven Blier (pianist) (Rupert Boyd, Julia Bullock, Alex Levine, Andrew Owens, Rubén Rengel & Sam Weber - additional vocalists and accompanists) - Schubert Beatles |