2025 Classical Africa – BBC Radio 3
2024 Quartet – Leah Broad
2023 Untold: Keith – Manchester Camerata
2021 House of Music – Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
2020 Rough Ideas – Stephen Hough
2019 Michael Tippett: The Biography – Oliver Soden

Prior to 2019, this category was known as Creative Communication.

2018 Becoming a Lied Singer: Thomas Quasthoff and the Art of German Song
2017 Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet – Edward Dusinberre
2016 The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions – edited by Michael Church
2015 The Opera Machine – Royal Opera
2014 Touch Press Classical Music iPad Apps
2013 Classic FM
2012 Hear and Now 50 – BBC Radio 3
2011 Opera Italia – BBC4
2010 Re-rite – Philharmonia Orchestra
2009 The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross
2008 Classic Britannia: Sixty Years of British Classical Music – BBC4
2007 Wagner and the Art of the Theatre – Patrick Carnegy
2006 A Bach Christmas – BBC Radio 3
2005 Britten's Children – John Bridcut

The Book Award and the Radio, Television, Video Award were merged into the Creative Communication Award in 2005.

Book

2004 Virtuosity and the Musical Work – Jim Samson
2003 The Modern Invention of Medieval Music – Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
2002 The Jerusalem Diary – Hans Keller
2001 Igor Stravinsky: A Creative Spring – Stephen Walsh
2000 Berlioz Volume II – David Cairns
1999 Liszt The Final Years – Alan Walker
1998 A Life of Bellini – John Rosselli
1997 Stravinsky – Richard Taruskin
1996 Gustav Mahler – Henry-Louis de la Grange
1995 Bayreuth – Frederic Spotts
1994 Verdi – Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
1993 Benjamin Britten – Humphrey Carpenter
1992 Letters from a Life – Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed
1991 Music Sounded Out – Alfred Brendel
1990 Berlioz Volume I – David Cairns

Radio, Television, Video

2004 Operatunity – Channel 4
2003 Sounds from the Big White House – Barrie Gavin
2002 The Miles Davis Story – Dibb Directions
2001 Gloriana – Phyllida Lloyd
2000 Sounding the Century – BBC Radio 3
1999 Bruno Monsaingeon – Richter, The Enigma
1998 Great Composers – BBC2
1997 The House – BBC2
1996 Fairest Isle – BBC Radio 3
1995 The Seven Last Words from the Cross – BBC2 
1994 The Art of Conducting – BBC2
1993 Romeo and Juliet – BBC2
1992 Mozart Days – BBC Radio 3
1991 Greek – BBC2
1990 Duke Bluebeard's Castle – BBC