Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

Anne-Sophie Mutter has the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2000 together with Lambert Orkis won

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance , in German "Grammy Award for the best chamber music performance", is a music prize that was awarded from 1959 to 2011 by the American Recording Academy in the field of classical music .

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The prize was awarded from 1959 to 2011 and has seen several minor name changes over the course of its existence:

• From 1959 to 1960 the award was called the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra)
• In 1961 he was in Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music renamed
• From 1962 to 1964 it called itself the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
• In 1965 the title was Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal and Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental
• From 1966 to 1967 the category was named Grammy Award for Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal
• From 1968 to 1990 it was called the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
• In 1991, the award was Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance award
• From 1992 to 2011 it was called the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

The award was discontinued in 2011 as part of a major overhaul of the Grammy categories. Since 2012 recordings from the field of chamber music have been recognized in the Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance category.

Winners and nominees

year	winner	nationality	plant	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1959	Hollywood String Quartet	United States	Beethoven : "String Quartet No. 13 op. 130 in B flat major"
1960	Arthur Rubinstein	Poland  United States	Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E flat major
1961	Laurindo Almeida	Brazil	Conversations With the Guitar
1962	Jascha Heifetz , Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose	Russia  United States  Ukraine  United Kingdom	Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8th/ Kodály : Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7th
1963	Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose	Russia  United States  Ukraine  United Kingdom	The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario and Guests
1964	Julian Bream	United Kingdom	Evening of Elizabethan Music
1965	Noah Greenberg (conductor) and New York Pro Musica	United States	It Was a Lover and His Lass (Vocal Award)
	Jascha Heifetz, Jacob Latiner and Gregor Piatigorsky	Russia  United States  Ukraine	Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E minor, Op.1 # 1 (instrumental price )
1966	The Juilliard String Quartet	United States	Bartók : The six string quartets
1967	Boston Symphony Chamber Players	United States	Boston Symphony Chamber Players - works by Mozart , Brahms , Beethoven, Fine, Copland , Carter , Piston
1968	Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin	India  United States	West Meets East
1969	Vittorio Negri (conductor), E. Power Biggs and the Edward Tarr Ensemble	Italy  United States	Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ
1970	Chicago Brass Ensemble , Cleveland Brass Ensemble, and Philadelphia Brass Ensemble	United States	Gabrieli : Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
1971	Eugene Istomin , Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern	United States	Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
1972	The Juilliard String Quartet	United States	Debussy : Quartet in G minor / Ravel : Quartet in F major
1973	Julian Bream & John Christopher Williams	United Kingdom  Australia	Julian and John (works by Lawes , Carulli , Albeniz , Granados )
1974	Gunther Schuller (conductor) and the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble	United States	Joplin : The Red Back Book
1975	Pierre Fournier , Arthur Rubinstein and Henryk Szeryng	France  Poland  United States  Mexico	Brahms: Trios (complete recording) / Schumann : Trio No. 1 in D minor
1976	Pierre Fournier , Arthur Rubinstein and Henryk Szeryng	France  Poland  United States  Mexico	Schubert : Trios No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 99, and No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 100 (piano trios)
1977	David Munrow (conductor) and the Early Music Consort of London	United Kingdom	The Art of Courtly Love
1978	The Juilliard String Quartet	United States	Schönberg : String Quartets (complete recording)
1979	Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Dawidowitsch Ashkenazi	Israel  Russia	Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
1980	Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra	United States	Copland: Appalachian Spring
1981	Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman	Israel	Music for Two Violins ( Moszkowski : Suite For Two Violins / Shostakovich : Duets / Prokofiev : Sonata for Two Violins) Music For Two Violins ( Moszkowski : Suite for two violins) / Shostakowitsch : Duets / Prokofjew : Sonata for two violins
1982	Vladimir Dawidowitsch Aschkenasi , Lynn Harrell and Itzhak Perlman	Russia  United States  Israel	Tchaikovsky : Piano Trio in A Minor
1983	Richard Goode and Richard Stoltzman	United States	Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120
1984	Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch and Rudolf Serkin	Russia  Austria  United States	Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38 and Sonata in F major, Op. 99
1985	The Juilliard String Quartet	United States	Beethoven: The late string quartets
1986	Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma	United States	Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E minor and F
1987	Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma	United States	Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C with variations
1988	Vladimir Dawidowitsch Aschkenasi , Lynn Harrell and Itzhak Perlman	Russia  United States  Israel	Beethoven: The entire piano trios
1989	David Corkhill , Evelyn Glennie , Murray Perahia and Georg Solti	United Kingdom  United States  Hungary	Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion
1990	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Bartók: 6 string quartets
1991	Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman	Argentina  Israel	Brahms: The three violin sonatas
1992	Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo , Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern	United States	Brahms: Piano Quartets (Op. 25 and 26)
1993	Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma	United States	Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano
1994	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Ives : String Quartets No. 1, 2 / Barber : String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)
1995	Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger , Larry Combs , Daniele Damiano , Hansjorg Schellenberger and the Berliner Philharmoniker	Argentina  Israel  United States  Germany	Beethoven / Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin)
1996	Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Stoltzman	United States	Brahms / Beethoven / Mozart: Clarinet Trios
1997	The Cleveland Quartet	United States	Corigliano : string quartet
1998	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Beethoven: The String Quartets
1999	André Previn and Gil Shaham	United States	American Scenes (works by Copland, Previn , Barber, Gershwin )
2000	Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis	Germany  United States	Beethoven: Violin Sonatas (No. 1-3, Op. 12; No. 1-3, Op. 30; Spring Sonata)
2001	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Shostakovich: The string quartets
2002	The Angeles String Quartet	United States	Joseph Haydn : Complete String Quartets
2003	Takács Quartet	United States	Beethoven: String Quartets (Razumovsky Op. 59, 1-3; Harp Op. 74 )
2004	Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw	United States	Berg : Lyric Suite
2005	Martha Argerich and Michail Wassiljewitsch Pletnjowv	Argentina  Russia	Prokofiev: Cinderella - Suite For Two Pianos / Ravel: Ma mère l'oye
2006	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets
2007	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Intimate Voices	Chamber Works For Winds And Strings By Mozart by the Chicago Chamber Musicians Corigliano: Violin Sonata, Etude Fantasy by Andrew Russo with Corey Cerovsek and Steven Heyman Martha Argerich And Friends: Live From The Lugano Festival 2005 by Martha Argerich and friends Shostakovich : Piano Trios 1 & 2, Seven Romances On Verses By Alexander Blok from the Beaux Arts Trio
2008	Eighth Blackbird	United States	Strange Imaginary Animals	On The Threshold Of Hope by Royal Conservatory Ensemble artist Saint-Saëns / Poulenc / Devienne / Milhaud by Oleg Maisenberg and Sabine Meyer Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets from the Souvenir de Florence Ying Quartet 30 Songs Of The Russian People by Joseph Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming Chan
2009	Pacifica Quartet	United States	Elliott Carter : String Quartets No. 1 and 5	Brahms: String Quartet Op. 51, No. 2, Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Stephen Hough and the Takács Quartet Folk songs from the Trio Mediaeval Right Through the Bone - Julius Röntgen Chamber Music from the ARC Ensemble String Poetic by Jennifer Koh and Reiko Uchida
2010	The Emerson String Quartet	United States	Intimate letters	Ginastera : String quartets from the Enso Quartet with Lucy Shelton The Hungarian Album by the Guarneri Quartet Schumann / Bartók - The Berlin Recital by Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer Tōru Takemitsu: And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind by Yolanda Kondonassis, Cynthia Phelps and Joshua Smith
2011	Parker Quartet		Ligeti: String Quartets No. 1 & 2	Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikow Gnattali : Solo & Chamber Works for Guitar by Marc Regnier (Tacy Edwards, Natalia Khoma, Marco Sartor) Porter, Quincy: Complete Viola Works by Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams (Douglas Rioth; Northwest Sinfonia) Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 by the Fred Sherry String Quartet (Christopher Oldfather, Rolf Schulte)

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance at grammy.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Accessed July 7, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Accessed July 7, 2019 . 
3. ^ GRAMMY Awards Winners for Best Chamber Music Performance. Accessed July 7, 2019 .