International Classical Music Awards#Prior

• 2011 Tampere
• 2012 Nantes
• 2013 Milan
• 2014 Warsaw
• 2015 Ankara{{cite news |last=Meuli |first=Andrea |date=2015 |title=Glanzvolle ICMA-Gala in Ankara |url=http://www.musikundtheater.ch/content/glanzvolle-icma-gala-ankara |work=Musik & Theater |location=Zürich |language=de |access-date=25 October 2017}}
• 2016 San Sebastián{{cite news |last=Meuli |first=Andrea |date=2016 |title=Gala in San Sebastian |url=http://www.musikundtheater.ch/content/gala-san-sebastian |work=Musik & Theater |location=Zürich |language=de |access-date=25 October 2017 |archive-date=13 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113200852/http://www.musikundtheater.ch/content/gala-san-sebastian |url-status=dead }}
• 2017 Leipzig{{cite web |last=Chiżyński |first=Maciej |date=19 January 2017 |title=The Winners of the International Classical Music Awards – ICMA 2017 |url=http://www.resmusica.com/2017/01/19/the-winners-of-the-international-classical-music-awards-icma-2017/ |work=resmusica.com |location=Paris |access-date=25 October 2017}}
• 2018 Katowice
• 2019 Lucerne
• 2020 Seville
• 2021 Vaduz
• 2022 Luxembourg City
• 2023 Wrocław
• 2024 València
• 2025 Düsseldorf

The Jury announced the winners for 2011 in 20 categories from a nomination list comprising over 500 CD and DVD productions.

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Menahem Pressler, founder of the Beaux Arts Trio
• Artist of the Year: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Young Artist of the Year: David Kadouch (French pianist)
• Label of the Year: Chandos Records
• Special Achievement Award: BIS Records' complete Sibelius Edition
• Website/Online Award: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Digital Concert Hall

• Recording of the Year + Opera category – Mozart Die Zauberflöte, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin dir. René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90206870)
• Symphonic – Shostakovich 8th Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko (Naxos)
• Baroque – Via Crucis soloists Núria Rial, Philippe Jaroussky, L'Arpeggiata, cond. Christina Pluhar (Virgin Classics 5099969457708)
• Chamber Music – Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 9 "Kreutzer" – Viktoria Mullova, Kristian Bezuidenhout (Onyx 4050)
• Choral – Stravinsky Oedipus Rex – Depardieu, Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Gergiev (Mariinsky MAR0510)
• Concerto – Schumann Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra – Lena Neudauer, German Radio PO, Pablo González (Hänssler Classic CD 93 258)
• Contemporary – Friedrich Cerha Spiegel-Monumentum-Momente – SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling (Kairos KAI0013002)
• Early Music – Dinastia Borgia Book and CDs – Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA9875A+C)
• First Recording – Vivaldi Armida al campo d'Egitto Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP30492)
• Historical – Sibelius Complete Symphonies – Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya MELCD 1001669)
• Solo Instrumental – Debussy Complete Piano Works Vol 5 – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (Chandos CHAN 10545)
• Vocal Recital – Mahler Lieder – Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber (RCA 886975677320)
• DVD Performance – Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen – cond. Zubin Mehta, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana with La Fura dels Baus (C Major 703 808)
• DVD Documentary – Tchaikovsky Two films: (Tchaikovsky's Women, Fate) – Christopher Nupen (Allegro Films A 10CN D)

The Jury announced the winners for 2012 in 20 categories from a nomination list comprising over 250 CD and DVD productions.

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Krzysztof Penderecki
• Artist of the Year: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
• Young Artist of the Year: Joseph Moog (pianist)
• Label of the Year: Ondine
• Special Achievement Award: Ward Marston (restorer of historical recordings)
• Website/Online Award: classicalplanet.com

• Recording of the Year + Solo instrumental category: Robert Schumann: Papillons, Klaviersonate op. 11, Kinderszenen, Fantasie op. 17, Waldszenen, Thema mit Variationen (Geistervariationen); Andras Schiff (ECM 2122/23)
• Symphonic: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Sunhae Im, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (Exton EXCL00048)
• Baroque instrumental: Rameau: L’Orchestre de Louis XV – Rameau: Les Indes galantes, Naïs, Zoroastre, Les Boréades (Orchestral Suites); Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA9882)
• Baroque vocal: Heinrich Schütz: Musicalische Exequien; Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (Ricercar RIC 311)
• Chamber Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet op. 20, Sextet op. 71; Scharoun Ensemble Berlin (Tudor 7146)
• Choral: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Philippe Jaroussky, Matthias Goerne, Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5099908847027)
• Concerto: French Impressions – Camille Saint-Saëns, Eugène Ysaÿe, Ernest Chausson, Maurice Ravel; Rachel Kolly d'Alba, Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod (Warner Classics 2564671814)
• Contemporary: Krzysztof Penderecki: Viola Concerto, Cello Concerto No. 2; Grigory Zhislin, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572 211)
• Early Music; Palestrina Vol. 1 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria, Salve Regina, Ave Maria; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Coro COR16091)
• Opera: Frank Martin – Der Sturm (opera); Robert Holl, Christine Buffle, Ethan Herschenfeld, James Gilchrist, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir, conducted Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA678213)
• Historical: Béla Bartók: Concertos, Cantata profana, Divertimento, etc.; Tibor Varga, Andor Foldes, Géza Anda, Louis Kentner, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, RIAS Berlin, conducted Ferenc Fricsay (Audite 21 407)
• Vocal Recital: Tragédiennes 3 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Antonio Salieri, Christoph Willibald Gluck, François Joseph Gossec, Hector Berlioz, etc.; Véronique Gens, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset. (Virgin 50999 070927 2 5)
• Vocal Recital: Slavic Opera Arias – Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Parashkev Hadjiev, Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Veselin Stoyanov, Krassimira Stoyanova, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Pavel Baleff (Orfeo C 830 111 A)
• DVD Performance: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9; Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (Accentus Music ACC 20214)
• DVD Documentary: Carlos Kleiber – Traces to Nowhere; Film by Eric Schulz. With Plácido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber (Arthaus Musik 101553)

• Lifetime achievement award: Aldo Ciccolini
• Artist of the year: Carolin Widmann
• Young artist of the year vocal: Valer Sabadus
• Young artist of the year instrumental: Alessandro Mazzamuto (pianist)
• label of the year: Audite
• Classical website award: Philharmonia Orchestra
• Special achievement award: Robert von Bahr (BIS Records)
• Special achievement award: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Orchestra LaVerdi)

• Early music: Amarcord – zu S. Thomas, Zwei Gregorianische Messen aus dem Thomas-Graduale – Thomaskirche Leipzig, um 1300; Amarcord Ensemble (RKap 10112)
• Baroque instrumental: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001–3 (Vol. II); Isabelle Faust, violin (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902124)
• Baroque vocal: Polychoral Splendour Music from the four galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri by Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schütz Cappella Murensis; (Siri Karoline Thornhill, Stephanie Petitlaurent, Rolf Ehlers, Jürgen Ochs, Mirko Ludwig, Manuel Warwitz, Simon Schnorr, Kees Jan De Koning, Les Cornets Noirs, Johannes Strobl (Audite 92.652)
• Vocal recital: Christian Gerhaher – Ferne Geliebte, Beethoven – Haydn – Schönberg – Berg; Christian Gerhaher, baritone, Gerold Huber, piano (Sony Classical 88691935432)
• Choral works: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Geistliches Chorwerk; Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (Carus 83020)
• Opera: Stanislaw Moniuszko: Verbum nobile; Aleksander Teliga, Aleksandra Buczek, Leszek Skrla, Michal Partyka, Janusz Lewandowski, Chor i Orkiestra Opery na Zamku / Warcislaw Kunc (Dux 783)
• Solo instrument: Serge Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36; Nikolai Lugansky, piano (Naïve AM208)
• Chamber music: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Carolin Widmann, violin, Jörg Widmann, clarinet, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, Alexander Lonquich, piano (Orfeo C 840121 B)
• Concertos: Dances to a Black Pipe, Copland – Brahms – Fröst – Piazzolla – Hillborg – Högberg; Martin Fröst, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (BIS SACD 1863)
• Symphonic music: Albert Roussel: Le festin de l’araignée (The Spider’s Banquet), Padmâvatî; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève (Naxos 8.572243)
• Contemporary music: Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cello Concerto No. 2 Towards the Horizon, Modificata, Percussion Concerto Incantations; Truls Mørk, cello, Colin Currie, percussion, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds (Ondine ODE11782)
• Best collection: Anton Bruckner: Symphonies No. 1 – 9; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt (Querstand VKJK 1230)
• Historical recording: Les Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring; Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko, Pierre Boulez, Vladimir Fedoseyev (Melodiya 1001990)
• DVD performance: Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur; Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina, Alessandro Corbelli, David Soar, Iain Paton, Janis Kelly, Sarah Castle, Maurizio Muraro, Bonaventura Bottone, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) and David McVicar (stage director) (Decca 0743459)
• DVD documentaries: John Cage – Journeys in Sound. A Film by Allan Miller & Paul Smaczny, and written by Anne-Kathrin Peitz (Accentus ACC 20246)

• Lifetime achievement award: Charles Dutoit
• Artist of the year: Andreas Staier
• Young artist of the year: Adrien Boisseau
• Label of the year: Glossa
• Classical website award: Metropolitan Opera Archives
• Special achievement award: Ludwig van Beethoven Association, Kraków (Poland)
• Special achievement award: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

• Early music: Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly; Louise Moaty, Marc Mauillon, René Zosso, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall
• Baroque instrumental: The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Soler: Sonatas; Andrea Bacchetti, piano, RCA Red Seal
• Baroque vocal: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate Pueri, Confitebor tibi Domine; Philippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva, Coro della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (Erato)
• Vocal recital: Franz Schubert: Erlkönig; Matthias Goerne, baritone & Andreas Haefliger, piano (Harmonia Mundi)
• Choral works: Berlioz: Grande messe des morts, Op. 5; Barry Banks, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, LSO Live
• Opera: Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Purves, Susan Gritton, Peter Coleman-Wright, Claire Booth, Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen (Erato)
• Solo instrument: Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales – George Enescu: Sonata op. 24/1 – Claude Debussy: 4 Préludes, Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano (eaSonus) & Scarlatti Illuminated (Scarlatti – Scarlatti/Tausig – Scarlatti/Friedman); Joseph Moog, piano (Onyx)
• Chamber music: Béla Bartok: String Quartet No. 3 – Alban Berg: String Quartet op. 3 – Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3; Signum Quartet (Capriccio)
• Concertos Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112 – Peter Eötvös: Seven – György Ligeti: Violin Concerto; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Ensemble Modern, Peter Eötvös (Naïve)
• Symphonic music: Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1–4, Tragische Ouvertüre, Haydn-Variationen, Liebeslieder-Walzer etc.; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
• Contemporary music: Krzysztof Penderecki: The Complete Symphonies; Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki (Dux 947)
• Best collection: Paul Hindemith: Violin Concerto – Violin Sonatas; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, Enrico Pace, piano, Paavo Järvi, Frankfurt Radio Symphony (BIS)
• Historical recording: Sergiu Celibidache – The Berlin Recordings, 1945–1957; Hans Bottermund, Helmut Heller, Lilia d’Albore, Erna Berger, Margarete Klose, Gustav Scheck, Gerhard Puchelt, Tibor de Machula, Raoul Koczalski, Hans Peter Schmitz, Helmut Schlövogt, Karl Rucht, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sergiu Celibidache (Audite)
• DVD performance: Sergey Prokofiev: The Gambler; Sergei Aleksashkin, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Vladimir Galuzin, Larissa Dyadkova, Nikolai Gassiev, Alexander Gergalov, Nadezhda Serdyuk, Andrei Popov, Oleg Sychev, Andrei Spekhov, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev; Laurent Gentot, film director (Mariinsky)
• DVD documentaries: Refuge in Music – Terezin; A Film by Dorothee Binding and Benedict Mirow, with Anne-Sofie von Otter, Daniel Hope, Christian Gerhaher, Bengt Forsberg, Bebe Risenfors, Alice Herz-Sommer, Coco Schumann (Deutsche Grammophon)

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Dmitri Kitayenko
• Artist of the Year: Christian Tetzlaff
• Young artist of the Year vocal: Jodie Devos
• Young artist of the Year instrumental: Yury Revich
• Label of the Year: Accentus
• Special Achievement Award: Panufnik Edition: Lukasz Dlugosz, Ewa Kupiec, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Sarah van der Kemp, Michael von Schönermark, Raphael Wallfisch, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lukasz Borowicz (cpo).
• Special Achievement Award: Zhu Xiao-Mei, piano. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (Accentus CD: ACC30308); Goldberg Variations (Accentus DVD: ACC20313)
• Special Achievement Award: Bilkent Symphony Orchestra

• Early music: Bal-Kan. Honey and Blood, Cycles of Life; Meral Azizoğlu, Irini Derebei, Gürsoy Dinçer, Lior Elmaleh, Montserrat Figueras, Tcha Limberger, Marc Mauillon, Amira Medunjanin, Stoimenka Outchikova-Nedyalkova, Agi Szalóki, Zacharias Spyridakis, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9902)
• Baroque instrumental: Pavanes and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland; Dowland – Purcell – Jenkins – Lawes – Morley – Locke; John Holloway, Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann, Susanna Hefti, Martin Zeller (ECM 4810430)
• Baroque vocal: Vivaldi: Pieta – Sacred Works for Alto; Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Arteserse (Erato 825646258109)
• Vocal recital: Stella di Napoli; Pacini – Bellini – Carafa – Rossini – Mercadante – Donizetti...; Joyce DiDonato, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi (Erato 2564636562)
• Choral works: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Lucy Crowe, Jennifer Johnston, James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 718)
• Opera: Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson, Jessica Vosk, Kevin Vortmann, Juliana Hansen, Kelly Markgraf, Julia Bullock, San Francisco Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media 821936-0059-2)
• Solo instrument: Franz Schubert: Sonatas D. 894 & D. 959; Evgeni Koroliov, piano (Tacet 979)
• Chamber music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichtrio op. 3 – Serenade op. 8; Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra (BIS 2087)
• Concertos: Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante; Wolfgang A. Mozart: Oboe Concerto; Lucas M. Navarro, Gregory Ahss, Konstantin Pfiz, Guilhaume Santana, Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (Claves 1302)
• Symphonic music: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9; Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon 4793441)
• Contemporary music: Unsuk Chin: Piano and Cello Concertos, Su for Sheng and Orchestra; Alban Gerhardt, Wu Wei, Sunwook Kim, Seoul Philharmonic, Myung-Whun Chung (Deutsche Grammophon 481 0971)
• Best collection: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Symphonies; Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Ádám Fischer (Dacapo 8201201)
• Historical recording: Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1–9; USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya MELCD 1002170)
• DVD performance: Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh; Vladimir Vaneev, Maxim Aksenov, Svetlana Ignatovich, John Daszak, Alexey Markov, Netherlands Opera Chorus, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht, conductor, Dmitri Tcherniakov, stage director (Opus Arte OA1089D)
• DVD documentaries: Richard Strauss and his Heroines; A Film by Thomas von Steinaecker; Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig, Christian Strauss, Rufus Wainwright, Franz Welser-Möst (Arthaus Musik 102181)

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Felicity Lott
• Artist of the Year: Christian Lindberg
• Young artist of the Year: Pablo Ferrández
• Discovery Award: Nikolai Song (flautist)
• Label of the Year: Harmonia Mundi
• Special Achievement Award: Palazzetto Bru Zane
• Special Achievement Award: Dinorah Varsi Edition (Genuin)

• Early music: Argentum et Aurum – Musical Treasures of the Early Habsburg Renaissance; Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon (Naxos 8.573346)
• Baroque instrumental: La Follia, Arcangelo Corelli: 6 Sonatas; Michala Petri, Mahan Esfahani (Our Recordings 6220610)
• Baroque vocal: Agrippina, Porpora – Graun – Händel: Arias; Ann Hallenberg, Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88875055982)
• Vocal recital: Joyce & Tony at Wigmore Hall, Haydn – Rossini – Santoliquido – De Curtis – Foster – Kern ...; Joyce DiDonato, Antonio Pappano (Erato 2564610789)
• Choral works: Antonin Dvorak: Requiem; Ilse Eerens, Bernarda Fink, Maximilian Schmitt, Nathan Berg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH 016)
• Opera: Piotr Tchaikovsky: Iolanta; Olesya Golovneva, Alexander Vinogradov, Andrei Bondarenko, Dmytro Popov, Vladislav Sulimsky, John Heuzenroeder, Marc-Olivier Oetterli, Dalia Schaechter, Justyna Samborska, Marta Wryk, Choir of the Cologne Opera – Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Dmitri Kitayenko (Oehms Classics OC963)
• Solo instrument: Franz Schubert: Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux; Andras Schiff (ECM 4811572)
• Chamber music: Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 – Robert Schumann: Romances, Brahms/Schumann/Dietrich: F.A.E. Sonata; Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi HMC902219)
• Concertos: Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Alexander Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Yevgeny Sudbin, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (BIS Records 2088)
• Symphonic music: Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1–7; Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings BPHR 150071)
• Contemporary music: Krzysztof Penderecki: Clarinet Concerto, Flute Concerto, Concerto grosso for 3 Cellos and Orchestra; Michel Lethiec, Lukasz Dlugosz, Arto Noras, Bartosz Koziak, Rafal Kwiatkowski, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki (Dux 1186)
• Best collection: Guerre et Paix, Blow – Biber – Caldara – Händel ...; Hesperion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, Capella Reial, Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA9908)
• Historical recording: Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. VIII, Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2, Schumann: Piano Concerto; Annie Fischer, Leon Fleisher, Swiss Festival Orchestra, George Szell, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (Audite 95643)
• DVD performance: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly (Accentus Music ACC20309 42)
• DVD documentaries: Daniil Trifonov, The Magics of Music – The Castelfranco Veneto Recital; By Christopher Nupen (Allegro Films A 19 CND)

The Jury announced the winners for 2017 in 22 categories from a nomination list comprising 321 Audio and Video productions (119 Labels).{{cite web |date=2017 |title=Viele mitteldeutsche Produktionen für ICMA nominiert |url=http://www.mdr.de/kultur/themen/nominierungen-icma-100.html |work=mdr.de |location=Leipzig |language=de |access-date=26 October 2017}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Matti Salminen
• Artist of the Year: Tabea Zimmermann
• Young artist of the Year instrumental: Sophie Pacini
• Young artist of the Year vocal: Elsa Dreisig
• Discovery Award: Robert Neumann (pianist)
• Label of the Year: BIS Records
• Special Achievement Award: Klaus Heymann
• Special Achievement Award: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
• Special Achievement Award: Ensemble Esperanza

• Early music: Roland De Lassus: Canticum Canticorum; Chœur de chambre de Namur, Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García Alarcón (Ricercar RIC 370)
• Baroque instrumental: L’ange et le diable, Tartini – Locatelli – Vitali – Leclair – Forqueray; Chouchane Siranossian, Jos van Immerseel (Alpha 255)
• Baroque vocal: Serpent & Fire, Purcell – Graupner – Sartorio – Locke – Händel – Hasse – Cavalli; Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (Alpha 250)
• Baroque vocal: J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion; Werner Güra, Benno Schachtner, Sunhae Im, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Johannes Weisser, RIAS Kammerchor, Staats- & Domchor Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC802236/37)
• Vocal recital: Schubertiade, Schubert: Lieder, Instrumentalstücke & Rezitation; Julian Prégardien, Marc Hantaï, Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Philippe Pierlot (Myrios MYR018)
• Choral works: Geistliche Gesänge: Reger – J.S. Bach – Nystedt; MDR-Rundfunkchor, Florian Helgath (Querstand VKJK 1627)
• Opera: Claude Vivier: Kopernikus; Svea Schildknecht, Uta Buchheister, Barbara Ostertag, Neal Banerjee, Ji-Su Park, Dorothea Winkel, Florian Kontschak, Holst-Sinfonietta, Opera Factory Freiburg, Klaus Simon (bastille musique bm001)
• Solo instrument: Piotr Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Op. 37bis, Children’s Album Op. 39; Elena Bashkirova (Gideon Boss GB008)
• Solo instrument: Sergei Lyapunov – Works for Piano Vol. 2; Florian Noack (Ars Produktion 38209)
• Chamber music: Duo Sessions, Halvorsen – Kodaly – Ravel – Schulhoff; Julia Fischer & Daniel Müller-Schott (Orfeo C902161A)
• Concertos: Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto op. 64, Schumann: Violin Concerto WoO 234; Carolin Widmann, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (ECM 4812635)
• Symphonic music: Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert, Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum, Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14; Deborah York, Stella Doufexis, Damen des Chors des BR, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings BPHR 160081)
• Contemporary music: Oriental Trumpet Concertos, Penderecki – Say – Khachaturian – Arutiunian, Gábor Boldoczki, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurek Dybal (Sony Classical 88985361092)
• Best collection: Szymanowski: Overture op. 12, Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 4; Gautier Capuçon, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich (Accentus ACC30388)
• Historical recording: Mahler – Loewe – Wagner – Brahms – Schubert ...; Maureen Forrester, Hertha Klust, Michael Raucheisen, Felix Schröder (Audite 21437)
• Video performance: Alban Berg: Wozzeck; Christian Gerhaher, Gun-Brit Barkmin, Brandon Jovanovich, Mauro Peter, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Lars Woldt, Pavel Daniluk, Cheyne Davidson, Martin Zysset, Irène Friedli, Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Stage Director: Andreas Homoki (Accentus Music)
• Video documentaries: Leonard Bernstein – Larger than Life; A Film by Georg Wübbolt (C Major 735908)

The jury has nominated 357 audio and video productions.{{cite web |date=16 November 2017 |title=Nominations |url=https://www.icma-info.com/2096-2/ |work=icma |access-date=5 February 2018}}{{cite web |date=18 January 2018 |title=Winners 2018 |url=https://www.icma-info.com/winners-2018/ |work=icma |access-date=5 February 2018}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: José van Dam
• Artist of the Year: Manfred Honeck
• Young artist of the Year: Christoph Sietzen (percussionist)
• Outstanding young Polish Artist: Szymon Nehring (pianist)
• Discovery Award: Yuan Yu (flautist)
• Label of the Year: Alpha
• Special Achievement Award: Krzysztof Penderecki Center Lusławice
• Special Achievement Award: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
• Special Achievement Award: Melodiya: Anthology of Russian Symphonic Music

• Early Music: Quattrocento – Musica y danza de la Corona de Aragon en Napoles; Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner (Capella de Ministrers CDM 1742)
• Baroque Instrumental: Vivaldi: The Concertos for Recorder; Stefan Temmingh, Capricornus Consort Basel (Accent ACC24332)
• Baroque Vocal: The Händel Album; Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Artaserse (Erato 190295774455)
• Vocal Recital: Visions, Bizet – Bruneau – David – Février – Franck – Godard – Halévy – Massenet – Niedermeyer – Saint-Saëns; Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet (Alpha 279)
• Choral: Felix Nowowiejski: Quo vadis; Wioletta Chodowicz, Wojtek Gierlach, Robert Gierlach, Slawomir Kaminski, Podlaskie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (cpo 5550892)
• Opera: Camille Saint-Saëns: Proserpine; Véronique Gens, Marie-Adeline Henry, Frédéric Antoun, Andrew Foster-Williams, Jean Teitgen, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Flemish Radio Choir, Ulf Schirmer (Ediciones Singulares ES1027)
• Solo Instrument: Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 959 & D 960; Krystian Zimerman (Deutsche Grammophon 4797588)
• Chamber Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Vol. VII & VIII, Beethoven: Quartets op. 18/2 & op. 59/3 – op. 18/3 & op. 74; Quartetto di Cremona (Audite 92.689 + 92.688)
• Concertos: Elgar: Cello Concerto – Martinu: Cello Concerto No. 1; Sol Gabetta, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Krzysztof Urbanski (Sony Classical 88985350792)
• Symphonic: Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies; ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister (Capriccio C5320)
• Contemporary: Tigran Mansurian: Requiem; Anja Petersen, Andrew Redmond, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich (ECM 4814101)
• Assorted Programs: Jean Sibelius: Tapiola – En Saga – 8 Songs (orchestrated by Aulis Sallinen); Anne-Sofie von Otter, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (Ondine ODE12895)
• Best Collection: Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies; Simona Saturova, Mihoko Fujimura, Christian Elsner, Christian Gerhaher, MDR Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor & GewandhausKinderchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt (Accentus Music ACC80322)
• Historical: Svjatoslav Richter plays Schubert, Live in Moscow, 1949–1963; Svjatoslav Richter (Profil PH17005)
• DVD Performance: Rereading Brahms, Brahms: The Symphonies; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner (Sony Classical 88985388869)

ICMA Jury nominates 319 releases from 107 labels for the 2019 awards.{{cite web |url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-319-releases-for-the-2019-awards/ |title=ICMA Jury nominates 319 releases for the 2019 awards |date=2019 |website=ICMA |access-date=17 January 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.icma-info.com/winners-2019/ |title=ICMA Winners 2019 |date=2019 |website=ICMA |access-date=17 January 2019}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Nelson Freire
• Artist of the Year: Javier Perianes
• Young artist of the Year: Matko Smolcic (bassoonist)
• Discovery Award: Eva Gevorgyan (pianist)
• Label of the Year: Ars Produktion
• Composer Award: Francisco Coll
• Orchestra Award: Stephen Waarts (violinist)
• Special Achievement Award: Numa Bischof Ullmann

• Early Music: Music In Medieval Denmark: 13th – 15th Century; Ensemble Peregrina, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Benjamin Bagby (Tacet 243)
• Baroque Instrumental: Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos BWV 1041, 1042, 1052; Berliner Barock Solisten, Frank Peter Zimmermann (Hänssler Classic 17046)
• Baroque Vocal: 17th Century Sacred Music in Wroclaw; Concerto Palatino, Gli Angeli Genève, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Stephan MacLeod (Claves 501805)
• Vocal Recital: Miroir(s), Gounod – Massenet – Puccini – Steibelt – Rossini – Mozart – R. Strauss; Elsa Dreisig, soprano, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Michael Schønwandt (Erato 190295634131)
• Choral: Sergei Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution; Ernst Senff Choir (Steffen Schubert, choir director) – Erfurt Air Force Music Corps, Staatskapelle Weimar, Kirill Karabits (Audite 97754)
• Opera: Gioacchino Rossini: Semiramide; Albina Shagimuratova, Daniela Barcellona, Mirco Palazzi, Barry Banks, Gianluca Buratto, Susana Gaspar, David Butt Philip, James Platt, Opera Rara Chorus – Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder (Opera Rara 9293800572)
• Solo Instrument: Wolfgang A. Mozart: Fantasy K. 475 + Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 16 & 18; Maxim Emelyanychev (Aparté AP 161)
• Chamber Music: Es war einmal – Once upon a time, Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen op. 132, Fantasiestücke op. 73 + Märchenbilder op. 113, Jörg Widmann: 5 Stücke im Märchenton; Jörg Widmann, Tabea Zimmermann, Dénes Várjon (Myrios MYR020)
• Concertos: The Golden Age – Cello 1925, Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 3 – Ibert: Concerto for Cello & Wind Instruments, Toch: Cello Concerto – Martinu: Concertino for Cello, Winds, Percussion & Piano; Christoph Heesch, Eroica Berlin, Jakob Lehmann (Genuin GEN18613)
• Concertos: Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Christian Tetzlaff, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (Ondine ODE1317-2)
• Symphonic: Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 – Grieg: Allegretto grazioso + Melody Op. 34/2; Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitri Kitayenko (Oehms Classics OC457)
• Symphonic: Bernstein: Complete Symphonies + Prelude, Fugue & Riffs; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Beatrice Rana, Nadine Sierra, Josephine Barstow, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Choir, Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics 01902956 61588)
• Contemporary: Arvo Pärt: Symphonies Nos. 1- 4; NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Tõnu Kaljuste (ECM New Series 2600)
• Assorted Programs: In Time, Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto op. 64 + String Octet op. 20; Chouchane Siranossian, Anima Eterna Brugge, Jakob Lehmann, Balasz Bozzai, Nicolas Mazzoleni, Bernadette Verhagen, Katya Polin, Davit Melkonyan, Astrig Siranossian (Alpha 410)
• Best Collection: Jean Sibelius: Incidental Music; Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.506032)
• Historical: Birgit Nilsson. The Great Live Recordings (Sony Classical 88985392322)
• Video Performance: Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle – Poulenc: La Voix Humaine; Barbara Hannigan, John Relyea, Ekaterina Gubanova, Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski (Arthaus Musik 109364)
• Video Performance: Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro; Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, Lauri Vasar, Marianne Crebassa, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel, Jürgen Flimm & Bettina Hartmann (Accentus Music ACC20366)
• Video Documentaries: Belcanto – The Tenors of the 78 Era; Documentary by Jan Schmidt-Garre, Caruso, Slezak, Tauber, McCormack, Schipa, Gigli, Schmidt, Koslovsky, Björling et al. (Naxos 2110389-91)

ICMA Jury nominates 390 audio and video productions from 130 labels for the 2020 awards.{{cite web |date=2020 |title=Winner 2020 |url=https://www.icma-info.com/2846-2/ |work=icma-info.com |location=Leipzig |publisher=International Classical Music Awards |access-date=13 February 2020}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Elisabeth Leonskaja
• Artist of the Year: Marina Rebeka
• Young artist of the Year: Erica Piccotti (cellist)
• Discovery Award: Philipp Schupelius (cellist)
• Label of the Year: Pentatone Classics
• Orchestra Award: Pepe Romero (guitarist)
• Composer Award: Ivan Boumans
• Special Achievement Award: John Axelrod, Jérôme Lejeune

• Early Music: Willaert e la Scuola Fiamminga a San Marco; Cappella Marciana, La Pifarescha, Marco Gemmani (Concerto Classics 2117)
• Baroque Instrumental: Night Music, Vivaldi – Gerardo – Eyck – Lully – Hotteterre – Biber; Dorothee Oberlinger, I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 190759 12522)
• Baroque Vocal: Georg Friedrich Händel: Serse; Franco Fagioli, Vivica Genaux, Inga Kalna, Francesca Aspromonte, Andrea Mastroni, Delphine Galou, Biagio Pizzuti, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (Deutsche Grammophon 4835784)
• Vocal Music: Franz Schubert: Winterreise; Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès (Pentatone Classics PTC 518676)
• Choral Music: Piotr Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom – Nine Sacred Choruses; Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1336-2)
• Choral Music: Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher; Judith Chemla, Jean-Claude Drouot, Christian Gonon, Adrien Gamba-Gontard, Claire de Sévigné, Christine Goerke, Judit Kutasi, Jean-Noël Briend, Steven Humes, Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, Netherlands Children’s Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Stéphane Denève (RCO Live)
• Opera: Antonio Salieri: Tarare; Judith van Wanroij, Jérôme Boutillier, Tassis Christoyannis, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Cyrille Dubois, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Marine Lafdal-Franc, Danaé Monnié, Enguerrand de Hys, Karine Deshayes, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (Aparté)
• Solo Instrument: Beethoven/Liszt – Schubert – Haydn – Say – Bartok – Sasaki; Can Çakmur, piano (BIS 2430)
• Solo Instrument: Schubert: Sonata D 960 – Drei Klavierstücke D 946 – Moments Musicaux D 780; Dina Ugorskaja (Cavi 8553107)
• Chamber Music: Lili Boulanger: Nocturne – César Franck: Violin Sonata – Louis Vierne: Violin Sonata Op. 23 Eugène Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque Op. 12; Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien (Hyperion CDA68024)
• Concertos: Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto; Kirill Gerstein, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (Myrios MYR024)
• Symphonic Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Symphonies; Sara Swietlicki, Morten Grove Frandsen, Ilker Arcayürek, Lars Møller, Danish National Concert Choir, Danish Chamber Orchestra, Ádám Fischer (Naxos 8.505251)
• Contemporary Music: Dusapin: Penthesilea; Georg Nigl, Natascha Petrinsky, Marisol Montalvo, Werner van Mechelen, Eve-Maud Hubeau, Wiard Withol, Yaroslava Kozin, Marta Baretta, Orchestre Symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie, Franck Ollu (Cyprès CYP4654)
• Assorted Programs: Antonio Vivaldi: Arias & instrumental works; Léa Desandre, Bruno Philippe, Peter Whelan, Jean Rondeau, Cecilia Bernardini, Louis Creac’h, Jérôme Van Waerbeke, Douglas Balliett, Jupiter, Thomas Dunford (Alpha 550)
• Best Collection: Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Music; {{ill|Aleksey Mikhlin|ru|Михлин, Алексей Ефимович}}, Evgeniya Seydel, Alexander Brusilovsky, Fyodor Druzhinin, Alla Vasilieva, Mieczysław Weinberg, Timofei Dokschitzer, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Borodin Quartet, Algis Zhuraitis, Rudolf Barshai (Melodiya MELCD 1002519)
• Historical Recordings: Wilhelm Furtwängler – The Radio Recordings 1939–1945; Edwin Fischer, Peter Anders, Walter Gieseking, Tilla Briem, Elisabeth Höngen, Rudolf Watzke, Erna Berger, Walther Ludwig, Fritz Heitmann, Georg Kulenkampff, Conrad Hansen, Pierre Fournier, Adrian Aeschbacher, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)
• Video Performance: Richard Strauss: Salome; Asmik Grigorian, John Daszak, Anna Maria Chiuri, Gábor Bretz, Julian Prégardien, Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Romeo Castellucci, stage director (Unitel Edition 801608)
• Video Documentaries: Gidon Kremer – Finding your own voice; Directed Paul Smaczny, Kremerata Baltica, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Tatjana Grindenko, Olesya Petrova, Evgeny Svetlanov Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Jacek Kaspszyk, Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Preludes to a Lost Time (Accentus ACC20414)

ICMA Jury has nominated 365 audio and video productions from 122 labels.{{cite web | title=ICMA Jury nominates 365 releases for the 2021 Awards | website=ICMA | url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-365-releases-for-the-2021-awards-2/ | access-date=8 March 2021}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Edita Gruberová
• Artist of the Year: Pablo Heras-Casado
• Young artist of the Year: Can Cakmur (pianist)
• Discovery Award: Maya Wichert (violinist)
• Label of the Year: Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings
• Orchestra Award: Marc Bouchkov (violinist), Kian Soltani (cellist)
• Special Achievement Award: Drazen Domjanic, Ingolf Turban (violinist)

• Early Music: Bonefont – Bruck – Gombert – Kerle – Lassus; Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (Cyprès CYP1682)
• Baroque Instrumental: Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos; Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon (Alpha 596)
• Baroque Instrumental: The Berlin Album, Benda – Graun – Janitsch – Kirnberger – von Preußen – Schulz; Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler (Audax ADX13726)
• Baroque Vocal: La Francesina, Handel’s Nightingale; Sophie Junker, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte (Aparté AP233)
• Vocal Music: Anima Rara, Catalani – Giordano – Leoncavallo – Mascagni – Massenet – Puccini; Ermonela Jaho, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Andrea Battistoni (Opera Rara ORR253)
• Choral Music: Igor Kuljeric: Glagolitic Requiem, Jakov Gotovac: Himna Slobodi; Kristina Kolar, Eric Laporte, Annika Schlicht, Ljubomir Puskaric, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repusic (BR Klassik 900331)
• Opera: Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d’Argent Hélène Guilmette; Jodie Devos, Edgaras Montvidas, Yu Shao, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean-Yves Ravoux, Matthieu Chapuis, Accentus, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (Bru Zane BZ1041)
• Solo Instrument: Maurice Ravel: La Valse, Miroirs – Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, Petrushka; Beatrice Rana (Warner Classics 9029541109)
• Chamber Music: Fantasque, Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 – Debussy: Violin Sonata – Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 – Poulenc: Violin Sonata; Franziska Pietsch, Josu de Solaun (Audite 97751)
• Concertos: Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Alban Gerhardt, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Hyperion CDA68340)
• Symphonic Music: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9 – Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 – Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 – Stephan: Music for Orchestra; Marlis Petersen, Elisabeth Kulman, Benjamin Bruns, Kwangchul Youn, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)
• Contemporary Music: Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face, Berceuse, Mazurkas, In Seven Days; Kirill Gerstein, Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra, Thomas Adès (Myrios MYR027)
• Assorted Programs: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Coriolan Overture, The Creatures of Prometheus Overture; Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMM 902413)
• Best Collection: Dmitrij Kitajenko Collection, Bernstein – Butsko – Flyarkovsky – Gabeli – Kabalevsky – Khachaturian – Rachmaninov – Rimsky-Korsakov – R. Strauss – Theodorakis – Yanchenko; Various soloists, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitrij Kitajenko (Melodiya)
• Historical Recordings: Live in Moscow 1951–1963, Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87; Svjatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Dmitri Shostakovich (Profil PH 20054)
• Video Performance: Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 3 + Etude-Tableau + Vocalise + Symphony No. 3; Denis Matsuev, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (Accentus Music ACC20487)
• Video Performance: Thomas: Hamlet; Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Nicolas Legoux, Julien Behr, Jérôme Varnier, Yoann Dubruque, Kevin Amiel, Chœur Les Eléments, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée, conductor, Cyril Teste, stage director (Naxos 2.11064 & NBD0103V)
• Video Documentaries: Lucas Debargue – To Music; A film by Martin Mirabel (Naxos 2.110639 & NBD0101V)

ICMA Jury has nominated 377 audio and video productions from 129 labels.{{cite web | title=ICMA Jury nominates 377 releases for the 2022 Awards | website=ICMA | url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-377-releases-for-the-2022-awards-2/ | access-date=13 February 2024}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Ádám Fischer
• Artist of the Year: Martin Fröst
• Young artist of the Year: Gennaro Cardaropoli (violinist)
• Discovery Award: Julian Kainrath (violinist)
• Composer Award: Sebastian Androne
• Label of the Year: Château de Versailles Spectacles
• Orchestra Award: Francisco Coll García (composer)
• Special Achievement Award: Pierre Cao (conductor), Michael Korstick (pianist)

• Early Music: Basevi Codex – Music at the Court of Margaret of Austria; Dorothee Mields, Boreas Quartett Bremen (Audite 97.783)
• Baroque Instrumental: The Mad Lover, Eccles – Purcell – Dunford – Matteis; Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Thomas Dunford (Harmonia Mundi HMM902305)
• Baroque Vocal: Anima Aeterna, Fux – Handel – Nucci – Zelenka; Jakub Józef Orliński, Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti (Erato 9029674390)
• Vocal Music: Schumann: Complete Songs; Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber (Sony Classical 19439780112)
• Choral Music: Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle; Sandrine Piau, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Edgardo Rocha, Christian Senn, Francesco Corti, Cristiano Gaudio, Daniel Perer, Coro Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi (Arcana A494)
• Opera: Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata; Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka, Franco Vassallo, Antonio Di Matteo, Gustavo De Gennaro, Sonia Fortunato, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Fabrizio Maria Carminati (Prima Classic PRIMA010)
• Solo Instrument: Niccolò Paganini: 24 Caprices; Alina Ibragimova (Hyperion CDA68366)
• Solo Instrument: Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 – In the Mists; Lars Vogt (Ondine ODE1382-2)
• Chamber Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 8-10; Frank Peter Zimmermann, Martin Helmchen (BIS 2537)
• Concertos: Beethoven – Berg – Bartók; Frank Peter Zimmermann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings BPHR210151)
• Symphonic Music: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (3 versions); Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša (Accentus Music ACC 30533)
• Contemporary Music: Francisco Coll, Violin Concerto – Hidd’n Blue – Mural – 4 Iberian Miniatures – Aqua Cinerea; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno (Pentatone PTC 5186951)
• Assorted Programs: Nikolai Kapustin, Piano Concerto No. 4 – Concerto for violin, piano & strings – Chamber Symphony Op. 105; Frank Dupree, Rosanne Philippens, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Case Scaglione, Frank Dupree (Capriccio C5437)
• Historical Recordings: The Complete Wilhelm Furtwängler on Records; Various composers, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Warner Classics 019025232405)
• Premiere Recordings: Antonio Salieri: Armida; Lenneke Ruiten, Florie Valiquette, Teresa Iervolino, Ashley Riches, Chœur de chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (Aparté AP244)
• Video Performance: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt; Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen, Andrzej Filonczyk, Jennifer Johnston, Mirjam Mesak, Corinna Scheuerle, Manuel Günther, Dean Power, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (Regie) (Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings BSOREC1001)
• Video Documentaries: A World Without Beethoven?; Sarah Willis, Martin Roddewig, Deutsche Welle/BFMI (Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images) (C-Major 757008)

ICMA Jury has nominated 391 audio and video productions from 117 labels.{{cite web | title=ICMA Jury nominates 391 releases for the 2023 Awards | website=ICMA | url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-391-releases-for-the-2023-awards-2/ | access-date=13 February 2024}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: David Geringas
• Artist of the Year: Ermonela Jaho
• Young artist of the Year: Saò Soulez-Larivière (violist)
• Discovery Award: Leonhard Baumgartner (violinist)
• Label of the Year: Naxos
• Composer Award: David Philip Hefti
• ICMA Classeek Award: Marc-André Teruel (double bassist)
• Orchestra Award: Karol Mossakowski (organist)
• Special Achievement Award: National Forum of Music, Alessandro Marangoni (pianist)

• Early Music: El Collar de la Paloma, Ibn Hazm of Cordoba; Capella de Ministrers, Carlos Magraner, (Capella de Ministrers CdM 2253)
• Baroque Instrumental: Bach: Italian Concerto – French Overture; Mahan Esfahani (Hyperion CDA68336)
• Baroque Vocal: Handel: Semele; Ana Maria Labin, Lawrence Zazzo, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón (Ricercar 437)
• Vocal Music: Dissonance, Rachmaninov: Melodies; Asmik Grigorian, Lukas Geniusas (Alpha 796)
• Choral Music: Rossini: Messa di Gloria; Eleonora Buratto, Teresa Iervolino, Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres, Carlo Lepore, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics 5419723452)
• Opera: Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande; Julian Behr, Vannina Santoni, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen, Hadrien Joubert, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lille, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi HMM90535254)
• Solo Instrument: Haydn: Piano Sonatas; Josu de Solaun (IBS 52022)
• Chamber Music: Into Madness, Bartok – Enescu – Achron; Tassilo Probst, Maxim Lando (Berlin Classics 0302767BC)
• Concertos: Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos; Vilde Frang, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Pekka Kuusisto (Warner Classics 9029667740)
• Symphonic Music: Rott: Symphony No. 1 – Mahler: Blumine – Bruckner: Symphonic Prelude; Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša (Deutsche Grammophon 4862932)
• Contemporary Music: Holliger: Lunea; Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse, Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Annette Schönmüller, Philharmonia Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger (ECM 2622)
• Assorted Programs: Salonen: Cello Concerto – Ravel: Duo Sonata; Nicolas Altstaedt, Pekka Kuusisto, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk (Alpha 627)
• Historical Recordings: Haydn: Symphony No. 99 – Schönberg: Piano Concerto op. 42, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; John Ogdon, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík (Audite 95.745)
• Premiere Recordings: Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5; Quatuor Diotima (MarchVivo MV005)
• Video: Opera: Hans Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen; Barbara Hannigan, Rachael Wilson, Katarina Dalayman, Peter Rose, Caroline Wettergreen, Dean Power, Kevin Conners, Owen Willets, Orchestra & Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Cornelius Meister, Andreas Kriegenburg (Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings BSOREC1002)
• Video: Performance & Documentaries: Metanoia, Bach – Borodin – Morricone – Pärt – Puccini – Villa-Lobos; Manon Galy, Ensemble K – Sequenza 9.3, Simone Menezes, Paul Smaczny (Accentus Music ACC20550)

ICMA Jury has nominated 375 audio and video productions from 115 labels.{{cite web | title=ICMA Jury nominates 375 releases for the 2024 Awards | website=ICMA | url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-375-releases-for-the-2024-awards/ | access-date=13 February 2024}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel
• Artist of the Year: Renaud Capuçon
• Young artist of the Year: Aida Pascu (soprano)
• Discovery Award: Lana Zorjan (violinist)
• Composer Award: Orazio Sciortino
• ICMA Classeek Award: Cassie Martin (guitarist)
• Label of the Year: Bru Zane
• Special Achievement Award: Bruno Monsaingeon (filmmaker), Sylvain Cambreling (conductor), #bruckner24 / The Complete Versions Edition (CD)

• Early Music: Oriente Lux; Orpheus 21, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA9954)
• Baroque Instrumental: Sonate a quattro, Goldberg – Telemann – Händel – Fasch – Janitsch; Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler (Audax ADX11201)
• Baroque Vocal: Jouissons de Nos Beaux Ans!, De Bury – Dauvergne – Francoeur – Cassanéa de Mondonville – Rameau – Rebel – Royer; Cyrille Dubois, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi (Aparté AP319)
• Vocal Music: Les Heures Claires, Nadia & Lili Boulanger: The Complete Songs; Lucile Richardot, Stéphane Degout, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Anne de Fornel, Raquel Camarinha, Sarah Nemtanu (Harmonia Mundi HMM90235658)
• Choral Music: André Caplet: Le Miroir de Jésus; Anke Vondung, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Howard Arman (BR Klassik 900342)
• Opera: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Michael Spyres, Michele Pertusi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics 5419740659)
• Solo Instrument: Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op. 27; Hilary Hahn (Deutsche Grammophon 503130)
• Chamber Music: Schubert: Trio D 898, Notturno D 897, Rondo D 895, Piano Trio D 929, Arpeggione Sonata; Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt (Ondine ODE 1394-2D)
• Concertos: Wolfgang A. Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3-5; Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (Aparté AP299)
• Symphonic Music:Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi (Alpha 987)
• Contemporary Music: Reconnaissance, Kaija Saariaho: Choir Works; Anna Kuvaja, Timo Kurkikangas, Helsinki Chamber Choir, Uusinta Ensemble, Nils Schweckendiek (BIS 2662)
• Assorted Programs: Maurice Ravel: L’heure espagnole – Boléro; Isabelle Druet, Julien Behr, Loïc Félix, Thomas Dolié, Jean Teitgen, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi HAF 905361)
• Historical Recordings: Herbert von Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years, Beethoven – Mozart – Bach – Brahms – Honegger; Robert Casadesus, Geza Anda, Clara Haskil, Nathan Milstein, Swiss Festival Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (Audite 21464)
• Premiere Recordings: Jules Massenet: Ariane; Amina Edris, Marianne Croux, Judith van Wanroij, Jean-Francois Borras, Yoann Dubruque, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Laurent Campellone (Bru Zane BZ1053)
• Video: Opera: Leos Janáček: Káťa Kabanová; Corinne Winters, Evelyn Herlitzius, David Butt Philip, Benjamin Hulett, Jens Larsen, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Jakub Hrůša, Barrie Kosky (Unitel Edition 810116 91001)
• Video: Performance & Documentaries: When music resounds, the soul is spoken to – Herbert Blomstedt; Documentary by Paul Smaczny (Accentus Music ACC20417)

ICMA Jury has nominated 374 audio and video productions from 117 labels.{{cite web | title=ICMA Jury nominates 374 releases for the 2025 Awards | website=ICMA | url=https://www.icma-info.com/icma-jury-nominates-374-releases-for-the-2025-awards/ | access-date=15 February 2025}}

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Gidon Kremer
• Artist of the Year: Leonardo García Alarcón
• Young artist of the Year: Benjamin Kruithof (cellist)
• Discovery Award: Can Saraç (pianist)
• Composer Award: Christoph Ehrenfellner
• ICMA Classeek Award: Ettore Pagano (cellist)
• Label of the Year: BR-Klassik
• Special Achievement Award: Ádám Fischer (conductor), Oliver Triendl (pianist), Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
• Early Music: Il Concerto Caccini, Strozzi – Caccini – Philips – de Cavalieri – Anonymous; Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten (Ricercar RIC 463)
• Baroque Instrumental: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6 BWV 825-830; Martin Helmchen (Alpha 994)
• Baroque Vocal: Invocazioni Mariane, Porpora – Vinci – Anfossi – Pergolesi – Vivaldi – Ragazzi; Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri (Naïve V5474)
• Vocal Music: Urlicht, Mahler – Zemlinsky – Humperdinck – Korngold – Pfitzner – Braunfels – Berg; Samuel Hasselhorn, Julia Grüter, The Poznań Nightingales Boys’ Choir, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (Harmonia Mundi HMM902384)
• Choral Music: Bruckners Welt, Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2, Sacred works; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Peter Dijkstra (BR Klassik 900940)
• Opera: Richard Wagner: Parsifal; Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Elina Garanča, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wolfgang Koch, Stefan Cerny, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan (Sony Classical 19439947742)
• Solo Instrument: Schubert: Piano Sonata D 840 + Hungarian Melody D 817 + Allegretto D 915, Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 2, Can Çakmur (BIS 2690)
• Chamber Music: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1-15, Quartet movement in E flat major, Two Pieces for String Quartet op. 22 & Op. 29; Danel Quartet (Accentus Music ACC80585)
• Concertos: Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Carissima, The Gardens at Eastwell, Vilde Frang, violin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati (Warner Classic 5021732409423)
• Symphonic Music: George Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Romanian Rhapsodies op. 11, Choeur de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Christian Măcelaru (Deutsche Grammophon 4865505)
• Contemporary Music: Unsuk Chin: Violin Concerto No. 1, Cello Concerto, Le Silence des sirènes, Rocaná, Chorós Chordón, Piano Concerto; Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt, Sunwook Kim, Barbara Hannigan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Sakari Oramo, Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings 230411)
• Contemporary Music:John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries, Girls of the Golden West, Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance; ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559935)
• Assorted Programs: Alfred Schnittke: Piano Concerto – Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler, The Four Temperaments; Anna Gourari, piano, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Markus Poschner (ECM 2752)
• Historical Recordings: Brahms & Mozart: Geza Anda Live 1963 & 1974, Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18; Géza Anda, piano, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Karl Böhm (Prospero Classical PROSP0100)
• Premiere Recordings: Saint-Saëns: Déjanire; Kate Aldrich, Julien Dran, Anaïs Constans, Jérôme Boutillier, Anna Dowsley, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada (Bru Zane BZ1055)
• Video: Opera: Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus; Diana Damrau, Georg Nigl, Katharina Konradi, Martin Winkler, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky (Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings BSOREC 1005)
• Video: Performance & Documentaries: Living Bach, Bach players and singers around the world; Anna Schmidt (Weltkino 4061229402200)

Cannes Classical Awards (CCA) were music awards awarded at the {{Lang|fr|Marché international du disque et de l'édition musicale}} (MIDEM) international music convention in Cannes, France, in January from 1994{{cite web |title=Classics Today.com - 2002 Cannes Classical Awards: Winners |url=http://www.classicstoday.com/features/f1_0102.asp |access-date=9 March 2025 |date=14 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614173033/http://www.classicstoday.com/features/f1_0102.asp |archive-date=14 June 2006 }}{{cite web |title=Cannes Classical Awards |url=http://www.cannesclassicalawards.com/cca_usa/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050927132001/http://www.cannesclassicalawards.com/cca_usa/index.htm |archive-date=2005-09-27 |website=www.cannesclassicalawards.com |access-date=9 March 2025}} until 2004.

The original chairman of the awards was the New York music critic David Hurwitz.{{citation |work=Czech music |title=Český hudební fond Praha. Hudební informační středisko |date=1995 |trans-title=Czech Music Fund Prague. Music Information Center |quote=... which took part in the French seaside resort of Cannes between January 21st and 25th, ... chairman of the competition is the well known New York music critic and Czech music connoisseur David Hurwitz.}} Voting was conducted by a multinational jury of several hundred music critics from magazines including Hurwitz' ClassicsToday.com website, Crescendo (Belgium), Répertoire (France), Pizzicato (Luxemburg), Klassik Heute (Germany), Scherzo (Spain), Musica (Italy) etc.{{citation |work=Classic CD |date=1998 |title=Here we reveal the winners in the Cannes Classical Awards, presented on 19 January' by the editors of nine international music magazines and CCA chairman David Hurwitz at MIDEM, the classical industry's annual convention. ...}}

In 2002, the award in the 'Living Composer' category went to Poul Ruders.{{cite web |title=Alle Gewinner |url=http://www.cannesclassicalawards.com/cca_usa/archiv/gewinner/index.htm |website=www.cannesclassicalawards.com |via=web.archive.org |access-date=9 March 2025 |date=9 April 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050409164907/http://www.cannesclassicalawards.com/cca_usa/archiv/gewinner/index.htm |archive-date=9 April 2005 }}

MIDEM Classical Awards succeeded CCA in 2005 and were held until 2010.{{cite web | title=MIDEM Classical Awards 2009 | website=MIDEM Classical Awards | url=https://www.midemclassicalawards.com/ | access-date=14 February 2024}}

In 2011, the awards were replaced with the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), which were first awarded in Tampere, Finland on April 6.

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