Classical Album

1988 • 30th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1986 and Aug 30, 1987

1988 Winner is Vladimir Horowitz, piano with "Horowitz In Moscow"

Horowitz In Moscow

Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

Nominees 1988

Winners

Year Winner Nomination Actions
2011 Duain Wolfe, Riccardo Muti, Chris Alder Verdi: Requiem All Nominees
2010 Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 All Nominees
2009 James Conlon, Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Fred Vogler Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny All Nominees
2008 Leonard Slatkin, Tim Handley Tower: Made In America All Nominees
2007 Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner Mahler: Symphony No. 7 All Nominees
2006 Leonard Slatkin, Tim Handley Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience All Nominees
2005 Lorin Maazel, John Adams, Lawrence L. Rock Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls All Nominees
2004 Michael Tilson Thomas, Michelle DeYoung, Andreas Neubronner Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Kindertotenlieder All Nominees
2003 Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Thomas Moore Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1) All Nominees
2002 Colin Davis, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver, James Mallinson Berlioz: Les Troyens All Nominees
2001 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer, Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox Shostakovich: The String Quartets All Nominees
2000 Michael Tilson Thomas, Andreas Neubronner Stravinsky: Firebird; The Rite Of Spring; Perséphone All Nominees
1999 Robert Shaw, James Mallinson Barber: Prayers Of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana All Nominees
1998 Yo-Yo Ma, David Zinman, Steven Epstein Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse) All Nominees
1997 Leonard Slatkin, Joanna Nickrenz Corigliano: Of Rage And Remembrance All Nominees
1996 Pierre Boulez, Karl-August Naegler Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux All Nominees
1995 Pierre Boulez, Karl-August Naegler Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12 All Nominees
1994 Pierre Boulez, John Aler, John Tomlinson, Karl-August Naegler Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana All Nominees
1993 Leonard Bernstein, Horst Dittberner Mahler: Symphony No. 9 All Nominees
1992 Leonard Bernstein, June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Ollmann, Hans Weber Bernstein: Candide All Nominees
1991 Leonard Bernstein, Hans Weber Ives: Sym. No. 2; Gong On The Hook And Ladder; Central Park In The Dark; The Unanswered Question All Nominees
1990 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer, Wolf Erichson Bartók: 6 String Quartets All Nominees
1989 Robert Shaw, Robert Woods Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses All Nominees
1988 Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost Horowitz In Moscow All Nominees
1987 Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 All Nominees
1986 John Aler, Robert Shaw, Robert Woods Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 Neville Marriner, John Strauss Amadeus All Nominees
1984 Georg Solti, James Mallinson Mahler: Symphony No. 9 In D All Nominees
1983 Glenn Gould, Samuel H. Carter Bach: The Goldberg Variations All Nominees
1982 Georg Solti, James Mallinson Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor All Nominees
1981 Pierre Boulez, Gunther Breest, Michael Horwath Berg: Lulu (Complete Version) All Nominees
1980 Georg Solti, James Mallinson Brahms: Symphonies (1-4) All Nominees
1979 Carlo Maria Giulini, Itzhak Perlman, Christopher Bishop Brahms: Concerto For Violin In D All Nominees
1978 Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside, Thomas Frost Concert Of The Century All Nominees
1977 Daniel Barenboim, Artur Rubinstein, Max Wilcox Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos All Nominees
1976 Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete All Nominees
1975 Georg Solti, David Harvey Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique All Nominees
1974 Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra All Nominees
1973 Georg Solti, David Harvey Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) All Nominees
1972 Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost, Richard Killough Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas) All Nominees
1971 Colin Davis, Erik Smith Berlioz: Les Troyens All Nominees
1970 Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind Switched-On-Bach All Nominees
1968 Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard Berg: Wozzeck All Nominees
1968 Leonard Bernstein, John McClure Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand) All Nominees
1967 Morton Gould, Howard Scott Ives: Symphony No. 1 In D Minor All Nominees
1966 Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return All Nominees
1965 Leonard Bernstein Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" All Nominees
1964 Benjamin Britten Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1963 Vladimir Horowitz Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz All Nominees
1962 Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky Conducts 1960: Le Sacre Du Printemps; Petrouchka All Nominees

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