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Chamber Music Performance

1978 • 20th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1976 and Aug 30, 1977

1978 Winner is The Juilliard String Quartet with "Schoenberg: Quartets For Strings (Complete)"

Schoenberg: Quartets For Strings (Complete)

Juilliard String Quartet, Earl Carlyss, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes

Nominees 1978

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2011 Parker Quartet, Jessica Bodner, Daniel Chong, Karen Kim, Kee-Hyun Kim Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 All Nominees
2010 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Intimate Letters All Nominees
2009 Pacifica Quartet, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Simin Ganatra, Masumi Per Rostad, Brandon Vamos Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5 All Nominees
2008 Eighth Blackbird, Matt Albert, Molly Alicia Barth, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael Maccaferri, Nicholas Photinos Strange Imaginary Animals All Nominees
2007 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Intimate Voices All Nominees
2006 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets All Nominees
2005 Mikhail Pletnev & Martha Argerich Prokofiev (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella - Suite For Two Pianos/Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye All Nominees
2004 Kronos Quartet, Jennifer Culp, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, John Sherba, Dawn Upshaw Berg: Lyric Suite All Nominees
2003 Takács Quartet, Edward Dusinberre, András Fejér, Károly Schranz, Roger Tapping Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74) All Nominees
2002 The Angeles String Quartet, Brian Dembow, Stephen J. Erdody, Kathleen Lenski, Steven Miller, Sara Parkins Haydn: The Complete String Quartets All Nominees
2001 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Shostakovich: The String Quartets All Nominees
2000 Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata) All Nominees
1999 Andre Previn, Gil Shaham American Scenes - Works Of Copland, Previn, Barber & Gershwin All Nominees
1998 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Beethoven: The String Quartets All Nominees
1997 Cleveland Quartet, James Dunham, Paul Katz, William Preucil, Peter Salaff Corigliano: String Quartet All Nominees
1996 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios All Nominees
1995 Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin) All Nominees
1994 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/Barber: String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals) All Nominees
1993 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Sonatas For Cello & Piano All Nominees
1992 Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern Brahms: Piano Quartets (Op. 25 & 26) All Nominees
1991 Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas All Nominees
1990 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Bartók: 6 String Quartets All Nominees
1989 David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia, Georg Solti Bartók: Sonata For Two Pianos & Percussion All Nominees
1988 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios All Nominees
1987 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Beethoven: Cello And Piano Sonata No. 4 In C & Variations All Nominees
1986 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Cello And Piano Sonatas In E Minor And F All Nominees
1985 Juilliard String Quartet, Earl Carlyss, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Beethoven: The Late String Quartets All Nominees
1984 Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin Brahms: Sonata For Cello And Piano In E Minor, Op. 38 And Sonata In F, Op. 99 All Nominees
1983 Richard Goode, Richard Stoltzman Brahms: The Sonatas For Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120 All Nominees
1982 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio In A Minor All Nominees
1981 Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman Play Music For Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata For Two Violins) All Nominees
1980 Dennis Russell Davies Copland: Appalachian Spring All Nominees
1979 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin And Piano All Nominees
1978 Juilliard String Quartet, Earl Carlyss, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Schoenberg: Quartets For Strings (Complete) All Nominees
1977 David Munrow The Art Of Courtly Love All Nominees
1976 Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 In B Flat, Op. 99 And 2 In E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios) All Nominees
1975 Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 In D Minor All Nominees
1974 Gunther Schuller Joplin: The Red Back Book All Nominees
1973 Julian Bream, John Christopher Williams Julian And John (Works By Lawes, Carulli, Albeniz, Granados) All Nominees
1972 Juilliard String Quartet, Claus Adam, Earl Carlyss, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Debussy: Quartet In G Minor/Ravel: Quartet In F All Nominees
1971 Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose, Isaac Stern Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios All Nominees
1970 Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli All Nominees
1969 E. Power Biggs, Vittorio Negri, Tarr Brass Ensemble Glory Of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas For Brass, Winds, Strings And Organ All Nominees
1968 Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar West Meets East All Nominees
1967 Boston Symphony Chamber Players Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works Of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston All Nominees
1966 Juilliard String Quartet, Claus Adam, Isidore Cohen, Raphael Hillyer, Robert Mann Bartók: The Six String Quartets - Nos. 1-6 All Nominees
1965 Noah Greenberg It Was A Lover And His Lass All Nominees
1965 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky Beethoven: Trio No. 1 In E Flat, Op. 1 #1 All Nominees
1964 Julian Bream Evening Of Elizabethan Music All Nominees
1963 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario And Guests All Nominees
1962 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8/Kodaly: Duo For Violin And Cello, Op. 7 All Nominees
1961 Laurindo Almeida Conversations With The Guitar All Nominees
1960 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat All Nominees
1959 Hollywood String Quartet, Alvin Dinkin, Paul Shure, Eleanor Aller Slatkin, Felix Slatkin Beethoven: Quartet 130 All Nominees

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