GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra)
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Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra)
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)
winner
Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement
nominees
Chopin: The Nocturnes
Hamelin: Études
Paganini: 24 Caprices
20th Century Harp Sonatas
52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)
winner
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Journey To The New World
nominees
Oppens Plays Carter
Sonatas & Etudes
Caroline Goulding
Chopin
51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)
winner
Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski
nominees
In A State Of Jazz
Red Cliff Capriccio
Revolutionary
Strange Toys
50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)
winner
Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
nominees
Louisiana - A Pianist's Journey
Solo Piazzolla
20th Century Piano Sonatas
Haydn: Piano Sonatas
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)
winner
Chopin: Nocturnes
nominees
Bach: The Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Solo
Bacheler: The Bachelar's Delight
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. II
Primrose: Viola Transcriptions
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)
winner
Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky
nominees
Szymanowski: Piano Son. No. 3, Métopes, Masques
Vengerov: Kreisler, Sarasate, Paganini, Wieniawski
Chopin: Études, Op. 10, Barcarolle, Op. 60, Son. No.2
Night Breeze - Harp Music Of Carlos Salzedo
47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)
winner
Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, Etc.)
nominees
Debussy: Images; Études
Pletnev Plays Schumann (Études Symphoniques, Op. 13; Arabeske, Op. 18, Etc.)
Shostakovich: Piano Works (Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 61; Five Preludes; Nocturne, Etc.)
Ysaye: Sonatas For Violin Solo, Op. 27
46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
winner
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35 & 49
nominees
Brahms: Sonata In F Minor; Intermezzo In A Minor, Etc.
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Bach: Partitas 1, 3 & 6
Bach: The Piano Transcriptions Of Bartók, Lipatti & Friedman
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
winner
Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25
nominees
Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Op. 12, Book 1; Op. 38, Book 2, Etc.)
Hahn: Le Rossignol Éperdu - Poèmes Pour Piano (Complete)
Kaleidoscope (Woods, Hofmann, Blumenfeld, Etc.)
Wolpe: Compositions For Piano (1920-1952)
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)
winner
Britten Cello Suites (1-3)
nominees
Glazunov: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Liszt: Sonata, Ballades And Polonaises
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6; Concert Sans Orch.
Alkan: Sym. For Solo Piano; Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux Dans Le Genre Pathétique
43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)
winner
Dreams Of A World - Works Of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipo & Duarte
nominees
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Album)
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Son. No. 2, Op. 35; Polonaise, Op. 53 (Album)
Godowsky: The Complete Studies on Chopin's Etudes (Album)
Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant - Jésus (I - X) (Album)
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)
winner
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
nominees
Chopin: The Four Ballades; Berceuse, Op. 57; Barcarolle, Op. 60; Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54 (Album)
Confrey: Piano Music (Kitten On The Keys; African Suite; Moods Of A New Yorker, Etc.) (Album)
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated; Down By The Riverside; Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Album)
Bach: English Suites Nos. 2, 4 And 5 (Album)
41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)
winner
Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 & 6
nominees
Bach: The Complete Sonatas And Partitas For Violin, Nos. 1, 2 And 3 (Arr. For 8-String Guitar) (Album)
New Dance - 18 Dances For Guitar (Works Of Jaffe, Morel, Carter, Etc.) (Album)
New York Variations (Works Of Copland, Corigliano, Tsontakis, Weber) (Album)
The Long, Long Winter Night (Works Of Grieg, Tveitt, Johansen, Etc.) (Album)
40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)
winner
Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1-6
nominees
Ligeti: Works For Piano (Etudes; Musica Ricercata, Etc.) (Album)
Murray Perahia Plays Handel And Scarlatti (Handel: Suite No. 5 In E Major, Etc./Scarlatti: Sonata In D Major, Etc.) (Album)
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1; Fantasy In C (Album)
Volodos - Piano Transcriptions (Works Of Bizet, Liszt, Rachmaninoff-Volodos, Etc.) (Album)
39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)
winner
The Romantic Master - Works Of Saint-Saens, Handel
nominees
Prokofiev: Piano Sons. Nos. 2, 3, 5 And 9 (Album)
Schumann: Fantasy/ Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Album)
Schumann: Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana, Etc. (Album)
Wuorinen: Third Piano Sonata; Bagatelle, Etc./ Feldman: Palais De Mari (Album)
38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)
winner
Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major And A Major)
nominees
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Album)
Beethoven: Piano Sons. Op. 31 (Nos. 16, 17, 18) (Album)
Chopin, Vol. 2 (Sonata No. 3; Mazurkas) (Album)
Chopin: 4 Ballades (Waltzes, Nocturne, Mazurkas And Etudes) (Album)
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
winner
Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 32, 47, 53, 59
nominees
Bach: Partitas For Violin Solo (Album)
Chopin Recital, Vol. 1 (Album)
Debussy: Preludes (Books I And II) (Album)
The American Innovator (Works Of Adams, Ives, Etc.) (Album)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
winner
Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music
nominees
Alkan: Concerto For Solo Piano
Bach: Six French Suites, BWV 812-817
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.1-4, 8-12, 13-15, 19-27
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
winner
Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi)
nominees
Schubert: Fantasie In C;4 Lieder/Brahms: Fantasien Op. 116 And Liszt: Ungarische Rhapsodie
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes And Fugues Op.87
Brahms: Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel Op. 24; 6 Piano Pieces Op. 118; 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79 (Album)
Ravel: Complete Works For Piano
34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)
winner
Granados: Goyescas; Allegro De Concierto; Danza Lenta
nominees
Evgeny Kissin: Carnegie Hall Debut Concert (Album)
Janácek: Piano Music
The Aldeburgh Recital (Beethoven/Rachmaninoff/Schumann/Liszt) (Album)
The American Romantic (Beach, Gottschalk, Helps) (Album)
33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)
winner
The Last Recording
nominees
Paganini: 24 Caprices For Solo Violin Op. 1 (Album)
Carter: Night Fantasies/Adams: Phrygian Gates (Album)
Debussy: 12 Piano Etudes (Album)
Mozart: Piano Sonatas (K. 283/331/332/333) (Album)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
winner
Bach: English Suites
nominees
Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas (Opp. 101,106,109, 110, 111) (Album)
Chopin: Four Ballades; (Op. 23, 38, 47, 52); Barcarolle, Op. 60; Fantasie, Op. 49 (Album)
Martinu: Piano Sonata No. 1; Les Ritournelles; Fantasie Et Toccata (Album)
Popper: Romantic Cello Favorites (Album)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
winner
Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola
nominees
Liszt: Annees De Pelerinage, Second Year: Italy (Album)
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 In B Flat, K. 333
Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas (Album)
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I (Album)
30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)
winner
Horowitz In Moscow
nominees
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Album)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 17, Op. 31/18, Op. 31/26, Op. 81A (Album)
My Favorite Kreisler (Album)
Stravinsky: Wolpe: Lieberson (Stravinsky: Serenade In A And Sonata/Wolpe: Form IV: Broken Sequences, Pastorale, Passacaglia/Lieberson: Bagatelles) (Album)
28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)
winner
Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
nominees
Chopin: 4 Scherzi/ Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61 (Album)
Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 2 in B-Flat Minor And No. 3 In B Minor (Album)
Gershwin: Preludes For Piano/Short Story/Violin Piece/ For Lily Pons/ Sleepless Night/ Promenade (Track)
Guitarra - The Guitar In Spain (Mudarra, Guerau, Boccherini, Sor, Tarrega, Albeniz, Falla, Turina, Etc.) (Album)
27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)
winner
Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
nominees
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 In B Flat, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" (Album)
Music Of Spain, Vol. 7 "A Celebration Of Andres Segovia" (Album)
R. Strauss: Glenn Gould Plays Strauss (Sonata; Five Pieces, Op. 3) (Album)
Schubert: Piano Sonata In B Flat, Major D. 960 (Album)
26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)
winner
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13
nominees
Beethoven: Sonata For Piano No. 15 In D Major, Op. 28 ("Pastoral") And No. 3 In C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 (Album)
Horowitz In London (Album)
Paganini: Caprices (24) (Album)
Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit/ Prokofiev: Sonata For Piano No. 6 In A Major, Op. 82 (Album)
25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)
winner
Bach: The Goldberg Variations
nominees
Barber: Sonata For Piano, Op. 26/Souvenirs, Op. 28/Nocturne, Op. 33 (Album)
Granados: Danzas Espanolas (Album)
Grofe-Tomita: Grand Canyon Suite/Anderson-Tomita: Syncopated Clock (Album)
Horowitz At The Met (Works By Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt And Rachmaninoff) (Album)
Schumann: Humoreske, Op.20/ Fantasiestucke, Op.12 (Album)
The Alkan Project (Etudes, Op.39-In All The Minor Keys) (Album)
24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)
winner
The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80
nominees
Viruoso Violin (Album)
Artur Rubinstein - Schumann - Ravel - Debussy - Albeniz (Album)
Bartók: Piano Sonata For Piano (1926)/Improvisations On Hungarian Peasant Songs/Suite, Op. 14
Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler, Album 3 (Album)
23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)
winner
The Spanish Album
nominees
(Joplin) Digital Ragtime - Music Of Scott Joplin (Album)
Bach: Toccatas, Volume II (Album)
Brahms: Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel (Album)
Copland: The Complete Music For Solo Piano (Album)
Rachmaninoff: Music For Piano, Vol. 7 (Sonatas Nos. 1 And 2) (Album)
22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)
winner
The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79
nominees
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Album)
Bach: Toccatas, Volume 1 (Album)
Boulez: Sonata For Piano No. 2 (Album)
Debussy: Estampes, Images, Books I And II (Album)
Franck: Prelude, Chorale And Fugue For Piano/Bach-Busoni: Chaconne/Mozart: Rondo In A Minor (Album)
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Album)
Scarlatti: Sonatas (12) (Album)
Villa-Lobos: Etudes (12) And Suite Populaire Brasilienne (Album)
21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)
winner
The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78
nominees
Bach: Italian Concerto/Choral Prelude/Prelude S922 /Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue/Fantasy And Fugue (Album)
Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas (Album)
Beethoven: Variations On A Waltz By Diabelli (Album)
Debussy: Preludes For Piano, Books I and II (Album)
Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes And 3 Etudes De Concert (Album)
Rudolf Serkin On Television (Album)
20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)
winner
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12
nominees
Grainger: Piano Music Of Percy Grainger (Album)
Granados: Goyescas (Album)
Kreisler: Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler - Album 2 (Album)
Messiaen: 20 Regards De L'Enfant Jesus (Album)
Bach: Partitas For Harpsichord No. 1 In B Flat Major And No. 2 In C Minor (Album)
Bach: The English Suites (Complete) (Album)
19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)
winner
Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
nominees
(Kreisler) Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler (Caprice Viennois, Andantino In The Style Of Martini, Allegretto in The Style Of Boccherini, La Gitana) (Album)
Chopin: Preludes, Op.28 (Album)
Gershwin: Watts By George: Andre Watts Plays George Gershwin (Rhapsody In Blue, Preludes For Piano (3), 13 Songs From Gershwin Songbook) (Album)
Rachmaninoff: 23 Preludes (Album)
Schubert: Sonata In A Minor, Op. 42 And Hungarian Melody In B Minor (D817) (Album)
The Intimate Guitar/2 (Bach, Sor, Albeniz, Molleda, San Sebastian, Samazeuilh) (Album)
18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)
winner
Bach: Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Unaccompanied
nominees
Messiaen: Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus (Album)
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 (Album)
Bach: Suites For Lute (Album)
Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 And 25 (Album)
Falla: "Music Of Falla" (Three Cornered Hat, El Amor Brujo, etc.) (Album)
17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)
winner
Albeniz: Iberia
nominees
Bach: French Suites, Vol. 2, Nos. 5 And 6 (Album)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 In C Major ("Waldstein") And 23 In F Minor ("Appassionata") (Album)
Crumb: Makrokosmos (Album)
Perpetual Motion (Album)
Ravel And Debussy: Music For Two Pianos/ 4 Hands (Album)
Tomita: Snowflakes Are Dancing (Album)
16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)
winner
Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin
nominees
Bach: French Suites 1-4 (Album)
Bach: Well-Tempered Klavier (Album)
Chopin: Etudes (Album)
Heavy Organ At Carnegie Hall (Album)
Schubert: Sonata In B Flat, Op. 960 (Album)
The Woods So Wild (Album)
15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)
winner
Horowitz Plays Chopin
nominees
Paganini: The 24 Caprices (Album)
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze/Brahms: Sonata No. 1 (Album)
The Art Of Laurindo Almeida (Album)
Beethoven: The Late Sonatas For Piano (Album)
Couperin: Harpsichord Pieces (Album)
Debussy: Images, Books 1 And 2 And Children's Corner Suite (Album)
Janácek: Piano Works (Complete)
14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)
winner
Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)
nominees
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6/ Out Of Doors Suite/ Sonatina
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 In B Flat Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" (Album)
Piano Rags By Scott Joplin (Album)
Satie: Piano Music Of Erik Satie, Vol. 3 (Album)
The Brahms I Love (Album)
Alicia De Larrocha Plays Spanish Piano Music Of The 20th Century (Album)
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Vol. 3 (Album)
Barber: Sonata For Piano/Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 In A Major (Album)
8th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1965)
winner
Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
nominees
Alkan: Piano Music (Album)
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Volume 3 (17-24) (Album)
Chopin Ballades (1, 2, 3, 4) (Album)
Chopin: 8 Polonaises And 4 Impromptus (Album)
Julian Bream In Concert (Album)
7th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1964)
winner
Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
nominees
A French Program (Ravel, Poulenc, Faure, Chabrier) (Album)
Bach: Inventions (Album)
French Baroque Music For Harpsichord (Couperin, Rameau And Boismortier) (Album)
Popular Classics For Spanish Guitar (Villa-Lobos, Falla, Etc.) (Album)
Richter Plays Schubert (Sonata In A Major For Piano, "Wanderer" Fantasia For Piano) (Album)
6th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1963)
winner
The Sound Of Horowitz
nominees
Bach: The Six Partitas (Album)
Beethoven: Three Favorite Sonatas (Album)
Granada (Albeniz: "Granada"/Granados: "Spanish Dance In E Minor"/Ponce, Tansman, Aguado: "Eight Lessons For The Guitar"/Sor: "Four Studies")) (Album)
Schumann: Carnaval/Fantasiestucke (Album)
5th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1962)
winner
Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
nominees
The Art Of Leon Goossens (Album)
Bach: The Art Of The Fugue, Vol. 1 (Album)
Bach: The Six Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Unaccompanied (Album)
Five Pieces From PLATERO AND I (Album)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 22 (Album)
French Piano Music - Four Hands (Album)
Highlights Of Rubinstein At Carnegie Hall (Album)
4th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1961)
winner
Reverie For Spanish Guitar
nominees
Bartók, Hindeminth, Prokofiev: Solo Violin Sonatas
Beethoven: Appassionata Sonata; Funeral March Sonata (Album)
Homage To Liszt (Album)
Bach: Suite No. 3 (Album)
3rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1960)
winner
The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida
nominees
Bach: Partita No. 3 In E And Brahms: Sonata No. 3 In D Minor (Album)
Brahms: Keyboard Music Of The French Court (Album)
Chopin Ballades (Album)
Haydn: ..Landowska (Album)
Pictures At An Exhibition (Album)
Prokofiev: Sonata # 7 And Pictures At An Exhibition (Album)
The Art Of Julian Bream (Album)
2nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1959)
winner
Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat
nominees
Berg: Sonata For Piano, Op.1; Krenek: Sonata # 3, Op. 92 # 4; Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (Album)
Danzas (Album)
Four Italian Sonatas (Album)
Pennario Plays (Album)
Presenting Jaime Laredo (Album)
1st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1958)
winner
Segovia Golden Jubilee
nominees
Art Of The Harpsichord (Album)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 And Sonata No. 8
Horowitz Plays Chopin (Album)
