Echo 2004 Select List of Awards:

Female Singer of the Year: Anna Netrebko for Opera Arias (DG/Universal 474 240 - 2)
Male Singer of the Year: Thomas Quasthoff for Widmung - Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Loewe, Strauss (DG/Universal 474 501-2)
Instrumentalist of the Year - Strings: Nikolaj Znaider for Bravo! (RCA/BMG 82876 50470-2)
Instrumentalist of the Year - Piano: Lang Lang for Live at Carnegie Hall (2 CDs DG/Universal 474 820-2)
Instrumentalist of the Year - Winds: Albrecht Mayer for Johann Sebastian Bach - Lieder without words (DG/Universal 476 047-2)
Life Achievement Award: György Ligeti
Orchestra of the Year - Early Music: Concentus Musicus Vienna, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt for Haydn's Die Schöpfung (2 CDs DHM/BMG 82876 58340-2)
Young Artist of the Year: Daniel Hope, violin, for Berg/Britten: Concertos for Violin and Orchestra (Warner 2564 60 291 - 2) [read Robert Anderson's review]
Concert Recording - eighteenth century: Murray Perahia with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for J S Bach (Sony CD 87 326)
Opera Recording of the Year - seventeenth/eighteenth century: Emmanuelle Haim for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Virgin/EMI 545 604-2)
Opera Recording of the Year - twentieth century: Andrew Davies for Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence (2 CDs Capriccio/Delta 60 091)
Opera Recording of the Year - arias and duets: Rolando Villazon for Italian Opera Arias (Virgin/EMI 545 626-2) [read more about Rolando Villazon]
Chamber Music: Pergamenschikow, Vogt, Meyer, Tetzlaff for Brahms Duo Sonatas (3 CDs EMI 557 523-2)
World Première Recording: Rasch et al for Mein Herz Brennt (DG/Universal 476 126-3) [read the story about this piece]
Bestseller of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli for The Salieri Album (Decca/Universal 475 100-2)