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

Vladimir Horowitz has received the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) three times

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) , in German "Grammy Award for the best classical performance - Solo instrumentalist (s) (with or without orchestra)", is a music award from 1967 until 1971 and 1987 was awarded 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 excellence regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) . The prize was awarded from 1967 to 1971 and 1987. In other years, the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance (with orchestra) and Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) were given.

Winners and nominees

1967-1971

year	winner	nationality	plant	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1967	Julian Bream	United Kingdom	Baroque guitar , with works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Gaspar Sanz , Silvius Leopold Weiss and other composers	John Browning for Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, op. 10 ; Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op.16 (conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra ) Raymond Lewenthal for Operatic Liszt Yehudi Menuhin for Edward Elgar : Violin Concerto in B minor op.61 Ivan Moravec for Chopin: Nocturnes Arthur Rubinstein for Rubinstein and Chopin (with Frédéric Chopin's Bolero, Tarantelle, Fantaisie in F minor and Trois nouvelles études) Isaac Stern for Dvořák: Concerto in A minor for violin (conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra ) John Williams for Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra / Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D major for guitar (conducted by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra)
1968	Vladimir Horowitz	United States	Horowitz in concert (Works by Haydn , Schumann , Scriabin , Debussy , Mozart and Chopin )
1969	Vladimir Horowitz	United States	Horowitz on Television (works by Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti and Horowitz)
1970	Walter Carlos	United States	Switched-on Bach
1971	Mstislav Rostropovich and Dawid Fjodorowitsch Oistrach with George Szell (conductor) and the Cleveland Orchestra	Hungary  United States	Brahms : Double Concerto in A Minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra ( Op 102nd)

1987

year	winner	nationality	plant	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1987	Vladimir Horowitz	United States	Horowitz - The Studio Recordings

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) at grammy.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Retrieved May 12, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Retrieved May 12, 2019 . 
3. ^ Winners Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist (s) (with or without orchestra). Retrieved May 12, 2019 . 
4. ^ Julian Bream - Baroque Guitar. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .