Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

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Country United States Official website grammy.com Instituted 1962 Category of Grammy Awards		First awarded 1962 Presented by The Recording Academy Last awarded 2011
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The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album was awarded from 1962 to 2011. The award had several minor name changes:

From 1962 to 1963, 1965 to 1972 and 1974 to 1976 the award was known as Album of the Year - Classical

In 1964 and 1977 it was awarded as Classical Album of the Year

In 1973 and from 1978 onward it was awarded as Best Classical Album

The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From then on, recordings in this category fall under the Album of the Year category.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

2000s

Grammy Awards of 2011

Riccardo Muti, conductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus master; Christopher Alder, producer; David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis, engineers/mixers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer, for Verdi: Requiem (performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus)

Grammy Awards of 2010

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor); Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane (choir directors); Andreas Neubronner (producer); Peter Laenger (engineer/mixer); Andreas Neubronner (mastering engineer); Katarina Karnéus, Laura Claycomb, Anthony Dean Griffey, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris, Yvonne Naef, Elza van den Heever & Erin Wall (soloists); San Francisco Symphony (orchestra); Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus & San Francisco Symphony Chorus for Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10

Grammy Awards of 2009

James Conlon (conductor); Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald (main performers); Fred Vogler (producer); Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Los Angeles Opera Chorus for Kurt Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Grammy Awards of 2008

Leonard Slatkin (conductor); Tim Handley (producer); Nashville Symphony for Tower: Made in America

Grammy Awards of 2007

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor); Andreas Neubronner (producer); San Francisco Symphony for Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Grammy Awards of 2006

Tim Handley (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor), Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason Harris, Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott, & Marie Alice Stollack (choir directors), Christine Brewer, Joan Morris and University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra for Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Grammy Awards of 2005

John Adams, Lawrence Rock, Richard Elkind (producers), Lorin Maazel (conductor), the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Choral Artists & the New York Philharmonic for Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls

Grammy Awards of 2004

Andreas Neubronner (producer), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) & Michelle DeYoung for Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Kindertotenlieder performed by Michelle DeYoung, Vance George, the Pacific Boychoir, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus & the San Francisco Symphony & Chorus

Grammy Awards of 2003

Thomas Moore (producer), Michael J. Bishop (engineer), Robert Spano (conductor), Norman Mackenzie (chorus director), Christine Goerke, Brett Polegato & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

Grammy Awards of 2002

James Mallinson (producer), Simon Rhodes (engineer), Colin Davis (conductor), Petra Lang, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens

Grammy Awards of 2001

Da-Hong Seetoo & Max Wilcox (producers & engineers) & the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets

Grammy Awards of 2000

Andreas Neubronner (producer), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Ragazzi Boys Chorus, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus & the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Stravinsky: The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Persephone

1990s

Grammy Awards of 1999

James Mallinson (producer), Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartók: Cantata Profana

Grammy Awards of 1998

Steven Epstein (producer), David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Philadelphia Orchestra for Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse)

Grammy Awards of 1997

Joanna Nickrenz (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor), various artists, Michelle De Young, the Washington Oratorio Society Male Chorus, the Washington Choral Arts Society Male Chorus & the National Symphony Orchestra for Corigliano: Of Rage and Remembrance

Grammy Awards of 1996

Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus for Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux

Grammy Awards of 1995

Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12

Grammy Awards of 1994

Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor), John Aler, John Tomlinson & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana

Grammy Awards of 1993

Horst Dittberner (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Grammy Awards of 1992

Hans Weber (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Kurt Ollmann, June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig & the London Symphony Orchestra for Bernstein: Candide

Grammy Awards of 1991

Hans Weber (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Ives: Symphony No. 2; Gong on the Hook and Ladder; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question

Grammy Awards of 1990

Wolf Erichson (producer) & the Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets

1980s

Grammy Awards of 1989

Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

Grammy Awards of 1988

Thomas Frost (producer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz in Moscow

Grammy Awards of 1987

Thomas Frost (producer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985

Grammy Awards of 1986

Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw (conductor), John Aler & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Requiem

Grammy Awards of 1985

John Strauss (producer), Neville Marriner (conductor), Choristers of Westminster Abbey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Amadeus (Original Soundtrack)

Grammy Awards of 1984

James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D

Grammy Awards of 1983

Samuel H. Carter (producer) & Glenn Gould for Bach: Goldberg Variations

Grammy Awards of 1982

James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor

Grammy Awards of 1981

Gunther Breest, Michael Horwath (producers), Pierre Boulez (conductor), Toni Blankenheim, Franz Mazura, Yvonne Minton, Teresa Stratas, & the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris for Berg: Lulu

Grammy Awards of 1980

James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Brahms: Symphonies (1, 2, 3 & 4)

1970s

Grammy Awards of 1979

Christopher Bishop (producer), Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Itzhak Perlman & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Brahms: Concerto For Violin in D

Grammy Awards of 1978

Thomas Frost (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside & the New York Philharmonic for Concert of the Century

Grammy Awards of 1977

Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Grammy Awards of 1976

Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete

Grammy Awards of 1975

David Harvey (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Grammy Awards of 1974

Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Grammy Awards of 1973

David Harvey (producer), Georg Solti (conductor), various artists, the Vienna Singverein Chorus, the Vienna Boys' Choir & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat (Symphony of a Thousand)

Grammy Awards of 1972

Thomas Frost, Richard Killough (producers) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)

Grammy Awards of 1971

Erik Smith (producer), Colin Davis (conductor), various artists & the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens

Grammy Awards of 1970

Album of the Year, Classical

Rachel Elkind (producer) & Wendy Carlos for Switched-On Bach

1960s

Grammy Awards of 1969

none

Grammy Awards of 1968

John McClure (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), various artists & the London Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)

Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor), Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Walter Berry, Fritz Uhl, Choeur Nationale de Paris & the Orchestra of Paris National Opera for Berg: Wozzeck

Grammy Awards of 1967

Howard Scott (producer), Morton Gould (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor

Grammy Awards of 1966

Thomas Frost (producer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return

Grammy Awards of 1965

Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"

Grammy Awards of 1964

Benjamin Britten (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Britten: War Requiem

Grammy Awards of 1963

Vladimir Horowitz for Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz

Grammy Awards of 1962

Igor Stravinsky (conductor) & the Columbia Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky Conducts 1960: Le Sacre du Printemps; Petrushka

References

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Wikipedia

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