| 2020 |
Yolanda Plumley, Anne Stone and The Orlando Consort “The Digital Remede de Fortune” |
| 2019 |
Robert Crowe and Joachim Enders “The Art of the Romantic Castrato: ornamented songs and arias of the last operatic castrato, Giambattista Velluti” |
| 2018 |
Rebecca Cypess “Sisters, Face to Face: The Bach Legacy in Women’s Hands” |
| 2017 |
JoAnn Taricani
An Antidote against Melancholy (1661): Soundscape for a Coronation |
| 2016 |
Laurie Stras
Musica Secreta recording: motets associated with convent of Corpus Domini, Ferrara |
| 2015 |
Jessie Ann Owens and Blue Heron World Premiere Recording of Cipriano de Rore’s I madrigali a cinque voci |
| 2014 |
Anthony Cummings Collaboration with ensemble “La Morra” on compact disc recording, The Lion’s Ear |
| 2013 |
Julia Dokter “Recording of Matthias Weckmann’s Free Works for Organ: A Practical Application of Tactus and Tempo Research” |
| 2012 |
Lori Kruckenberg, Michael Alan Anderson, and the Schola Antiqua of Chicago “Sounding the Neumatized Sequence” |
| 2011 |
Philip V. Bohlman and the New Budapest Orpheum Society Representing the Holocaust, Resounding Terezín |
| 2010 |
Jesse Rodin and Cut Circle “Josquin’s Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel” |
| 2009 |
Liber: Ensemble for Early Music Recording Previously Unrecorded Repertoire of the Trecento |
| 2008 |
Adam Knight Gilbert Fifteenth-Century Counterpoint and Improvisation |
| 2007 |
Elisabeth Le Guin Audience Performance Practice: A Pilot Project |
| 2006 |
Christopher Wolverton (Vox Early Music Ensemble) and Honey Meconi (University of Rochester) Extreme Singing: Very Low Music of the Renaissance |
| 2005 |
Catherine Gordon-Seifert, Elisabeth Belgrano, and Stephen Stubbs The Lyric Art of Bénigne de Bacilly From Drinking Songs to Spiritual Airs |
| 2004 |
Philip Cave and Sally Dunkley Honour, Glory, Light of Flanders: The Music of Philippe Rogier |
| 2003 |
Christopher Stembridge Complete Edition of the Keyboard Works of Girolamo Frescobaldi |
| 2002 |
Maria I. Rose Nineteenth-Century Piano Recording Project |
| 2001 |
Talisman CD: “Music of Russian Princesses From the Court of Catherine the Great” |
| 2000 |
Steven Zohn and The Publick Music Music for a Mixed Taste. First Recordings of Telemann's Early Trios |
| 1999 |
Victor Coelho and the Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis, Director The 1608 Florentine Intermedi: Music for the Wedding of Cosimo II Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria |
| 1998 |
Musicians of the Old Post Road CD: “Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel” |
| 1997 |
Kate van Orden and The King’s Noyse Collaborative series of concerts and recording of voix de ville from Renaissance Paris |
| 1996 |
Louise Stein Series of performances and recording of Tomás de Torrejón Velasco, La purpura de la rosa |
| 1996 |
Jeanice Brooks and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson Performance workshops and concerts by the Orlando Consort and Musica Secreta, Twenty-Third International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Music, Southampton, 1996 |
| 1995 |
Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire Reconstruction of American Music in the Federalist Period |
| 1994 |
Frederick Gable Hamburg Gertrudenmusic of 1607 |
| 1993 |
Richard G. King Editing and Recording of Eighteenth-century Dutch music for the Viola da Gamba |
| 1992 |
Alexander Blachly Recording of the Sacred Works of Antoine Busnoys |
| 1991 |
Kristin Thelander Recording of Early-Nineteenth Century Music for Natural Horn and Pianoforte |
| 1990 |
D.C. Hall’s New Concert and Quadrille Band, directed by Peter Bloom Recording of Concert Music from Mid-Nineteenth-Century America |
| 1990 |
Juliane Baird Recording of Three Cantatas of Johann Adolf Hasse |
| 1989 |
Linda Kobler Recording of early Italian Seventeenth-Century Harpsichord Works by Giovanni Picchi, Bernardo Storace, Michelangelo Rossi, Gregorio Strozzi (four works previously unrecorded) |
| 1988 |
Robert Stephen Hill Recording of Neglected Early J.S. Bach Keyboard Works |
| 1987 |
Peter Urquhart Canon in the Music of Josquin Desprez |
| 1986 |
Evan Johnson Mystery Sonatas of Heinrich Franz Biber, Performance and Recording |
| 1985 |
Boston Renaissance Ensemble Program of late Fifteenth- and early Sixteenth-century music in collaboration with Andrea von Ram |
| 1985 |
John Hajdu Performance and recording of two motets by Lully planned to coincide with Lully’s tercentenary |
| 1984 |
No Award |
| 1983 |
Mary Cyr and Frederick Stoltzfus Recording of six cantatas by Buxtehude |
| 1982 |
Spencer Carroll Video production of Roman de Fauvel |
| 1981 |
Maria Fowler Production of Guillaume de Dole |
| 1981 |
Timothy Aarset Book: The Art of Improvisation in Renaissance Music: Ensemble Polyphony in the Franco-Flemish Tradition, 1480–1550 |
| 1980 |
Philip Brett Performances of Peri, Euridice, and Monteverdi, Orfeo (1980); recording of portions of Byrd, Gradualia |
| 1980 |
Ross W. Duffin Edition of Dufay chansons (Ogni Sorte editions) |
| 1979 |
John Hajdu Recording of Jean Gilles, Messe de morts |
| 1978 |
Richard Taruskin Recording of Ockeghem, Missa Prolationum |