Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)

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The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) was awarded from 1967 to 1971 and in 1987. Outside of these years the award has been divided into the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) and the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra).

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Recipients[edit]

Three-time award recipient Vladimir Horowitz

Nominees of the 9th Grammy Awards (1967) included Julian Bream for Baroque Guitar, pianist John Browning for Prokofiev: Concert No. 1 in D Flat Major for Piano; Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano (conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra), pianist Raymond Lewenthal for Operatic Liszt, violinist Yehudi Menuhin for Elgar: Concerto for Violin, Ivan Moravec for Chopin: Nocturnes, Arthur Rubinstein for Rubinstein and Chopin (featuring Frédéric Chopin's Bolero, Tarantelle, Fantaisie in F minor and Trois nouvelles études), violinist Isaac Stern for Dvořák: Concerto in A Minor for Violin (conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra), and Australian classical guitarist John Williams for Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra/Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D Major for Guitar (conducted by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra).[1] Bream received the award for Baroque Guitar, which featured pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gaspar Sanz, Silvius Leopold Weiss and other composers.[2]

Year Winner(s) Title Nominees Ref.
1968 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz in Concert (Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin)
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1969 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz on Television (Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Horowitz) [4]
1970 Wendy Carlos Switched-On Bach
[5]
1971 David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, soloists; Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello) [6]
1987 Vladimir Horowitz Howoritz - The Studio Recordings, New York '85
[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1966 Grammy Awards Finalists". Billboard. Vol. 79, no. 7. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 18, 1967. p. 10. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
  2. ^ "Baroque Guitar". Allmusic. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
  3. ^ "Grammy Awards 1968". AwardsandShows. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  4. ^ "Grammy Awards 1969". AwardsandShows. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  5. ^ "Grammy Awards 1970". AwardsandShows. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  6. ^ "Grammy Awards 1971". AwardsandShows. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  7. ^ "Grammy Awards 1987". AwardsandShows. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
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