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Best Choral Performance

2004 • 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2002 and Aug 30, 2003

2004 Winner is Paavo Järvi, Ants Soots & Tiia-Ester Loitme with "Sibelius: Cantatas"

Sibelius: Cantatas

Tiia-Ester Loitme, Ants Soots, Paavo Järvi

Nominees 2004

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon Ortiz: Yanga All Nominees
2025 Donald Nally Ochre All Nominees
2024 Nils Schweckendiek Saariaho: Reconnaissance All Nominees
2023 Donald Nally Born All Nominees
2022 Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Robert Istad, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Luke McEndarfer Mahler: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony Of A Thousand' All Nominees
2021 James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, JoAnn Falletta Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua All Nominees
2020 Robert Simpson Duruflé: Complete Choral Works All Nominees
2019 Donald Nally McLoskey: Zealot Canticles All Nominees
2018 Donald Nally Bryars: The Fifth Century All Nominees
2017 Krzysztof Penderecki Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1 All Nominees
2016 Charles Bruffy Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil All Nominees
2015 Craig Hella Johnson The Sacred Spirit Of Russia All Nominees
2014 Tonu Kaljuste Pärt: Adam's Lament All Nominees
2013 Charles Bruffy Life & Breath - Choral Works By René Clausen All Nominees
2012 Eric Whitacre Light & Gold All Nominees
2011 Duain Wolfe, Riccardo Muti Verdi: Requiem All Nominees
2010 Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 All Nominees
2009 Simon Halsey, Simon Rattle Symphony Of Psalms All Nominees
2008 Simon Halsey, Simon Rattle Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem All Nominees
2007 Paul Hillier Pärt: Da Pacem All Nominees
2006 Leonard Slatkin Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience All Nominees
2005 Robert Spano Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
2004 Tiia-Ester Loitme, Ants Soots, Paavo Järvi Sibelius: Cantatas All Nominees
2003 Robert Spano Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1) All Nominees
2002 Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Bach: St. Matthew Passion All Nominees
2001 Helmuth Rilling Penderecki: Credo All Nominees
2000 Robert Shafer Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1999 Robert Shaw Barber: Prayers Of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana All Nominees
1998 Robert Shaw Adams: Harmonium/Rachmaninoff: The Bells All Nominees
1997 Neville Creed, David Hill, Andrew Litton Walton: Belshazzar's Feast All Nominees
1996 Herbert Blomstedt Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem All Nominees
1995 John Eliot Gardiner, choral director Berlioz: Messe Solennelle All Nominees
1994 Pierre Boulez Bartók: Cantata Profana All Nominees
1993 Herbert Blomstedt Orff: Carmina Burana All Nominees
1992 Georg Solti Bach: Mass In B Minor All Nominees
1991 Robert Shaw Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis All Nominees
1990 Robert Shaw Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1989 Robert Shaw Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses All Nominees
1988 Robert Shaw Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd All Nominees
1987 James Levine Orff: Carmina Burana All Nominees
1986 Robert Shaw Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 James Levine Brahms: A German Requiem All Nominees
1984 Georg Solti Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1983 Georg Solti Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust All Nominees
1982 Neville Marriner Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1981 Norbert Balatsch, Carlo Maria Giulini Mozart: Requiem All Nominees
1980 Georg Solti Brahms: A German Requiem All Nominees
1979 Georg Solti Beethoven: Missa Solemnis All Nominees
1978 Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists) Verdi: Requiem All Nominees
1977 Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director Rachmaninoff: The Bells All Nominees
1976 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Robert Page, choral director Orff: Carmina Burana All Nominees
1975 Colin Davis, conductor Berlioz: The Damnation Of Faust All Nominees
1974 Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director Walton: Belshazzer's Feast All Nominees
1973 Georg Solti, conductor (Various Artists) Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) All Nominees
1972 Colin Davis, conductor Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1971 Gregg Smith Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives All Nominees
1970 Luciano Berio, conductor; Ward Swingle, choir master Berio: Sinfonia All Nominees
1969 Gregg Smith The Glory Of Gabrieli All Nominees
1968 Leonard Bernstein, conductor (Various Artists) Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major (Symphony Of A Thousand) All Nominees
1968 Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Robert Page, chorus director Orff: Catulli Carmina All Nominees
1967 Robert Shaw Handel: Messiah All Nominees
1967 Gregg Smith Ives: Music For Chorus All Nominees
1966 Robert Shaw Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria All Nominees
1965 Robert Shaw Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols All Nominees
1964 Lord Benjamin Britten, conductor; David Willcocks & Edward Chapman, choral directors (Pears, Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau) Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1963 Otto Klemperer, conductor; Wilhelm Pitz, choir director Bach: St. Matthew Passion All Nominees
1962 Robert Shaw Bach: B Minor Mass All Nominees
1961 Thomas Beecham, conductor Handel: Messiah All Nominees

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